The Holmes Family Ancestry

I have started assembling my Holmes, Crawford, Richardson, Dickison, May families ancestry.
It is a work in progress. Any and all information is much needed. So far I've added 66 photos. And some memories and stories. Plus the famous story of my grandfather Bill Holmes who rode his motorcycle across the "frozen" Ohio River back in the 1930's! Included is the actual Portsmouth Times newspaper article.

You may view many family members at this Ancestry website:
click here: The Holmes-Dickison Family of South Shore, Kentucky.

Getting Nostalgic again . . . vintage photos

Christine is working today, so I started looking back in old photo albums and guess what I found . . .

(Click on Photo to Enlarge it!)
This is my 1st Grade Class Photo! My dad was principal Mr. Holmes, over to the left and my teacher was Mrs. Ruggles - inwhich I am standing right in front of!
The 2 girls in the front row to the far left in aqua/teal dresses were Sylvia and Angela who I would develop a crush on. I would write love letters to Sylvia only to have Angela intercept them!

Here I am in 1959 - they kept me in a pin and forced me to ride ponies!!









and I would lay down with my best friend, Huckleberry Hound! I dragged that stuffed animal everywhere I would go - nowadays I have a Dinki pekingese that I walk - kinda ironic!

1968 Holmes Family of South Shore, Kentucky Super 8mm Films

I finally found out how to post my family's Super 8mm Home Movies so I could share them with you!! Here is my family's first Florida Vacation in 1968 in 3 Parts - I even gave them all a soundtrack!! - being in Super 8mm they were silent films. You can leave comments on the actual YouTube website. I will post more later on - they take some time to upload!



This is Part 1 of a Series of Super 8mm Home Movies that my family took of our yearly Florida Vacations. The year is 1968 and we took our first trip to Fort Pierce, Florida. We saw my mother's dad and mom (Ma-maw & Pa-paw) who were vacationing earlier that year, staying in my mom's Aunt Rosealie & Ralph's Florida vacation home. We also visited Cypress Gardens in this film segment.




This is Part 2 of a Series of Super 8mm Home Movies that my family took of our yearly Florida Vacations.
In this home movie clip we see "Flipper" (aka Mizi) the dolphin, star of the TV Series, drive across the 7 Mile Bridge to Key West, swimming folics in a motel pool, Ernest Hemingway's Home, visit a Fort in Key West, see a Seminole Indian Village and return to the Fort Pierce Beach!




This is Part 3 of a Series of Super 8mm Home Movies that my family took of our yearly Florida Vacations.
Here we are on the beach of Fort Pierce, Florida, my grandfather's filming antics with the Super 8mm camera (crazy thought of it being a "moving camera"), Amelia Earhart's home on Indrio Road, during our return to Kentucky we stopped in Macon, Georgia to visit our Aunt Sharon and her mother and then "All The Snow" we came home to in South Shore, Kentucky!

Hope you like them.
- Bill

Christmas Past!

Christine and sister Laurie

Christmas 1965!

Bill, his Mom and sister in the living room Christmas 1975!

Did I have bell bottom pants on!?!

A "bearded" Bill opening a present - Christmas 1984!

Here are my Mom & Dad at Christmas in 1956!

Christmas is near . . .

First, here's something OLD - me and my Aunt Bertha (only we could not pronounce "Bertha" so we called her "Bob"!)
Yep, that's me on the lap of Aunt Bob!!!
Don't I look thrilled!!



and Now Something NEW!!!





The sun sure is bright outside in that white snow! Better wear eye protection!

Back in 1974 - Prom Night!

Some family historial photos:
Here are a couple of polaroid shots of Bill in 1974 on Prom Night in his spiffy-new Johnny Carson suit! Yes, Johnny Carson had a suit line of clothing and Bill just had to have this suit! Photos were taken in the Holmes family home in Greenup County - South Shore, Kentucky - population 497 !!! (click on photos for an enlargement)


(that yellow door lead to the garage!)
I believe Bill had "lambchops" on the side of his face!!!


A proud stance in my Johnny Carson suit!
(note all the oriental decor and "white poodle!" statue in the background, Bill's parents loved oriental art and worldly artifacts.) Not sure why we had that poodle!

More past Holmes photos to come!