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Thanks Barbara and Kathy for Kathy’s Corner today. What an interesting program regarding using Google Lens when our memories of older pictures etc. are fading.

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Aw, I'm so glad, Linda. It was lovely seeing you today and I so appreciate your taking such an active interest in this ongoing series. 😊

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Kathy, Love your excitement about Google Lens. Lots of great info! Thanks.

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Thanks so much Lynda.

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Barbara, I love the photo of the car you included. A perfect example - who knew that Abilene had their own license plates!! A great point to research.

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Thanks for your kind words on the photo, @Kathy Stone. Yes, of course, it is an old personal photo.

I'm still researching that car, but you know asking family is a secret to engaging the cousins. I posted another photo of that car in my private podcast, and after exploring it for a while discovered...

1. Who was driving (my grandmother),

2. Who else was in the car, (great-grandfather at her side — realized from another picture that he really did have a mustache then)

3. Who the baby was in the back (grand-aunt based on the age difference)

4. Who took the photo (my grandfather, likely, given what we know about the time window and especially given the look my great grandfather was giving him)

5. That they were all pretending — the car wasn't actually moving!

The biggest surprise was that the photo got my cousins kids all excited about identifying the car. They ASKED to be included in the private "podcast." (As you know, of course, this is the private Substack newsletter I share with my cousins and talked about in this project recipe: projectkin.substack.com/p/project-recipe-private-podcast)

I now think the toddler in this photo is that same grand-aunt born in 1908. 🥰 As better evidence on this one... a little research in Kansas turned up the tidbit* that communities in Kansas first started issuing plates in 1909. How about that. The puzzle fits!

(*This is according to the Abilene Reflector Chronicle abilene-rc.com/news/the-history-of-license-plates-from-the-orignials-new-and-reused/article_9d9512c2-162b-11ec-9a97-3bad4c429b60.html)

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