Telling life stories, one photo at a time
The Forgotten Faces Project is a repository of found photos with a mission to reunite these photos with their families through genealogical research.
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Margaret Slingluff Kindy
Margaret Slingluff Kindy was the sister of Hannah Slingluff Davis
Hannah Slingluff Davis
Hannah Slingluff Davis was the matriarch of a large Pennsylvania family… for whom we have many a photo to share!
Esther Cable Crispin
Esther was certainly a hard research case but a satisfying end to the Hewitt / Cable family saga.
Alice Watson
Elizabeth Cole Clark
Elizabeth Cole Clark was born in the early 19th century in about 1805 - can you find her final resting place?
Jacob Cable
Jacob Cable was a steamboat captain out of Penns Neck, NJ who met an unfortunate end.
Charles Wesley Cable
Charles “Uncle Wes” Cable was a beloved staple to his community in Upper Penns Neck, New Jersey.
Harry J. Cable
Harry Cable grew up to be a printer, a newspaper man, a Justice of the Peace, a supporter of the war effort… and a heck of a research case.
Mae A. Cable
Mae (Hewitt) Cable was a housewife in New Castle, Delaware.
Mary Humphries Hewitt
Mary Humphries Hewitt was a fascinating research case that raised more questions than answered.
George Hewitt
George Hewitt was a school teacher in Upper Penns Neck, New Jersey.
Catherine Peterson Dolbow
Catherine Peterson Dolbow is the gateway into a very large family that once lived along the New Jersey / Delaware border.
The Morgan Family
The Morgan family came to California from Iowa, where Mira, the youngest daughter, took a prestigious position with one famous woman of the LAPD.
William James Boucher
William James Boucher was born in 1844 in Scotland and lived in Belfast until his death in 1894.
Ann King
Ann King was a landlady living in Wadsworth, Ohio when she was photographed around 1875.
Emma Demory Link & Harry Demory
Emma and Daniel Demory were siblings from Loudoun County, Virginia.
Effie Day
Effie day was born in 1862 in Boston. She was close with her only son, George, until her death.
Louis N. Beaudry
Louis Beaudry was a Civil War chaplain and a Protestant-turned-Catholic, whose crisis of faith he detailed in a number of published works.
William & Malvina Butrick
William and Malvina Butrick lived in Elkhart, Indiana.
Jennie Kyle & Jane Porter Rogan
Jennie Kyle was born in 1850 and lived in Tennessee with her Civil War captain husband, Leonidas Kyle.