Taken before May 1912, the date of his death. My father, Jacob Finley Siratt Jr. was his last child, born six months after Jake's death. My brother was also named Jacob Finley Siratt III, and when he died in Vietnam in 1968, the name died with him.
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
I am Beverly Gaye Siratt Scofield. I've been dabbling with family genealogy for years but have been lying low for quite a while. Interest never dies, though.