Anna, Revisited

The things you find when you log into old accounts.

Setting aside my resentment of Ancestry, which is harder to quit than a gym membership, I logged into an old separate account that I had created to research one Miss Anna Ireland of Detroit, MI, 1936.  I was shocked to see what had developed in the intervening years, data-wise.  Photos upon photos of a woman whose trail had led to a brick wall for me years ago.  I almost couldn't process it - was this really my gal?

I still have to parse through this to make sure it's all correct, but here's Anna, and the things I had wrong.  Many questions still unanswered.

• She married Jack at 27.  In 1936, this was basically past the point of old maidery.  No judgments, obviously, I'm just saying.
• Jack ended up dying in 1954, when their daughter was quite young. Reasons unknown, but Anna fretted about his ill health as early as 1937.
• She remarried a guy named Chick, but I haven't started looking at him.  Chick is an out of fashion nickname for Charles that I enjoy.

Anna and the baby.  1947-48.  Check those super-Forties rolls in her hair.

Jack and Colleen, guess '48-49.  I like this photo of he in his undershirt at home.

Jack, Baby Colleen, Anna.  Late 40s, tinsel tree.

Anna and Colleen already with Stepdad Chick when Colleen was still quite small.

Very much 1950s summer attire for mom and daughter. This would seem to be in Phoenix.

I could write an entire post about the '50s Mexican peasant dress, but I'm overwhelmed and I need to figure out if Colleen is still alive.  We'll see what turns up.