Today, one-hundred and seventeen years ago,
Emilie Haf nee Schallhammer (1871-1944), married my maternal great-grandfather,
Adalbert Haf (1868-1952) on the 21st of October, in 1894 in Pfronten, Ostallgau, Bayern, Germany. My grandfather, Adalbert Haf (1907-1968) was one of the 19 children, our Emilie and Adalbert gave birth to . . . several had passed away early on, and some of the boys had died in WWII. I have so little information on Emilie and some of the children.
My beautiful mom (1933-2010) and I were just getting into the history of our
Haf family and this portrait, before she passed. I am researching and asking as many questions as I can with my only living Aunt in Germany, my uncle's wife.
Both passed before I was born so I never had the opportunity to get to know either great-grandparent. As far as I know, this is the only photo I have of, Oma Emilie.
Because many of my grandfather's siblings had passed or were in the military...not all are shown in this family portrait. The two framed photos sitting on the floor in front of my great aunt Fannie, and my great grandfather, are my great-great grandparents, Mathias (1839-1902) and Franziska (nee Behringer) Haf (1838-1900)...the only portraits I know that exist of them. I do not have all of the names of my ancestors in this photo. There are names written on the back but a bit confusing as to who is who and for several, there is no name at all, so I am working on identifying each ancestor correctly (hopefully). The two adults sitting and to the right in the photo, are cousins of my great grandfather (sadly, no names).
The Haf family portrait is very large and would not fit on my 8.5 x 11
Canon scanner, so I used my
Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner and stitched the portrait together...because of my
Flip-Pal, I am now able to scan and share several photos I have in my collection.
