Please help me date this family photo, translation of ruthenian/cyrillic?

[jlo5616]

Thanks everyone!

So yes, I am the one who added Sophia Oneske on FindAGrave, and I'm also the owner of the Oneske Family Tree site that was posted. That is the Sophia I am researching.

What I do know is that Sophia is NOT the mother in that picture. My great grandmother Sophia had a single son with my great grandfather Prokop Oneskewicz.

I do have some post cards sent to my great grandmother from an Anna Strilecka, and it looks like she might write "sister" in them. So my thought is if this photo date-wise isn't correct to be Sophia as a child, it might be she had a sister named Anna and Anna named a child Sophia after her sister. However the obvious hole in this theory is that the last name on the photo for all four people is Drozd, and if Anna married she would have likely taken the last name of her husband (Strilecka I would assume). Or maybe sister was just a term of endearment and doesn't actually mean biological sister?

This stuff tortures me!!!

[Treetotal]

Odd that the lady doesn't appear to be wearing a wedding ring?
Carol

[jlo5616]

I noticed that too. I have other photos of alleged family members where they have wedding rings on (right hand, middle finger). But these people look pretty poor, wouldn't you say? Perhaps it just wasn't in the budget or wasn't important?

[Treetotal]

Thanks everyone!

So yes, I am the one who added Sophia Oneske on FindAGrave, and I'm also the owner of the Oneske Family Tree site that was posted. That is the Sophia I am researching.

What I do know is that Sophia is NOT the mother in that picture. My great grandmother Sophia had a single son with my great grandfather Prokop Oneskewicz.

I do have some post cards sent to my great grandmother from an Anna Strilecka, and it looks like she might write "sister" in them. So my thought is if this photo date-wise isn't correct to be Sophia as a child, it might be she had a sister named Anna and Anna named a child Sophia after her sister. However the obvious hole in this theory is that the last name on the photo for all four people is Drozd, and if Anna married she would have likely taken the last name of her husband (Strilecka I would assume). Or maybe sister was just a term of endearment and doesn't actually mean biological sister?

This stuff tortures me!!!

On balance, it would appear that Anna sent this to your Great Grandmother and it is of Anna and her family.

As Sandra has shown...the translation reads:

Sending you for remembrance how we look.

Carol