I am a bit sad today and that is why I am writing this story.

I want to introduce you to one of my relatives…

This is why I am sad… I don’t know who this boy is.

He is obviously dead by now, but he was part of my family. I found this picture among my father’s archives and it was not labeled. The back of the photograph is blank and so is this boy’s story.

If someone had taken just a minute to write the date and the name, we would know a lot more about this fellow. I can conjecture, but it won’t make it right. At best it would be an educated guess.

He looks like my father’s side of the family. It could be my grandfather, Jack Rublefsky, who came over from Europe in the early 1900’s.

Here are some things that I would like to know:

Who was this young boy?
How old was he in this photograph?
Was this a special occasion?
Why is this the only picture of him in a box of hundreds?
Was he my father’s father?
Was he my father’s uncle?
If not my grandfather or my father’s uncle, did he have any children?
Where was this picture taken? (I think Europe)

The unfortunate part is that I am in my seventies and there is no one I can ask who would know definitively who this is. He is truly a boy “lost” to the ages!

If you have photographs that you will be passing on, why not make sure that they are identified so they don’t become unknown history?

 

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