{"id":7133,"date":"2016-12-30T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T00:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2024-07-17T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T23:43:13","slug":"looking-back-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/looking-back-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back &#8211; Family History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7134\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7134\" data-attachment-id=\"7134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/looking-back-family-history\/life-at-spring-meadows-123\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;SandiHerronGraphics.com&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Life at Spring Meadows | Gardening Living Creating&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Sandi Herron, Chelsea, Alabama 2016&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Life at Spring Meadows&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Looking Back in History | Old Barn built by Lundsford Herron | Life at Spring Meadows\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Old barn built by Lundsford Herron. | Life at Spring Meadows | Gardening Living Creating&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Old barn built by Lundsford Herron. | Life at Spring Meadows | Gardening Living Creating&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004-666x533.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7134\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004-666x533.jpg\" alt=\"Old barn built by Lundsford Herron. | Life at Spring Meadows | Gardening Living Creating\" width=\"666\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/old-barn-0004.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old barn built by Lundsford Herron. | Life at Spring Meadows | Gardening Living Creating<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I enjoy history and especially when it connects my family today with their past. One of the gifts I gave to my husband for Christmas is a canvas print of the barn his grandfather (Lundsford Herron) built. I took the photo in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>It was 1973 when I saw the old barn for the first time. Shortly after I took the photo, the barn burned down. Glad to have it documented and now this piece of history hangs on our wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancestry.com<\/a> is the service I use for my research on family history. I have learned\u00a0much about my background through researching the family lineage. It is interesting to see handwritten documents, marriage licenses, death certificates, newspaper articles, and names of people I remember hearing my family mention when I was a child. Occasionally, I find photos of ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy history and especially when it connects my family today with their past. 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