Jackson's Wish

As requested by "Oma" these pages feature little Jackson making his Christmas wishes with dear old St. Nick. Papers and elements came from the Digi Blog Train Kit "Winter Wish" which was available for free download last December.

Margaret Margene "Jean" Rankin (1921-1992)

Using more papers and elements from the Shabtastic collection I have created a double layout featuring the biography of my father's Aunt Margaret Margene "Jean" Rankin.

Also included in the pages are photographs of her and her children, Milton Lee High (deceased) and Lynda Lee High (living).

Bavarian Girl Immigrates to America (1955)

To celebrate my recent discovery of my mother and Oma's immigration record on familysearch.org and ancestry.com, I made a tribute page to my mother and her German side of the family. I found this adorable kit titled Bavarian Adventure along with a photograph of the navy ship on which my mother and her mother traveled in 1955.

These pages include photographs of Maria "Carmen" (Brooks) Rankin, Maria "Irma"garde (Sell), Irma's parents, Cacelia (Lossa) and Philipp Sell along with Carmen's cousins Reno and Werner De Decaro. The latter is a famous still life artist who resides in Augsburg, Germany.

Photo Credit: Deborah Miller Paul Bray of the Facebook group "We Fix Picks" helped correct and colorize the photo of my Carmen and Irma aboard the U.S.N.S General Alexander M. Patch

WWII Veteran, Roy "Allen" Rankin

Today's double layout post features the biographical pages of my father's uncle, Roy "Allen" Rankin who achieved the rank of COX in the navy during WWII. This layout features background papers from the Digi Blog Train Kit "Winter Wish" that was available for free download in December, 2015.

Enteritis Infection Claimed Life of 3.5 Year Old Little Coot Rankin

Featuring more papers and elements from Just So Scrappy's Shabtastic Collection, and a Teddy Bear from Deviant Art's cendredelune  are the biography pages of my great Uncle Charles Edward "Little Coot" Rankin. Suffering from an enteritis infection, Charles died an early death at 3.5 years of age. The featured newspaper article which mentions keeping baby's safe from ailments like enteritis during the summer months was published in The Coshocton Tribune of Coshocton, Ohio on June 14th, 1923, a few months before Little Coot died.

Babe Rankin died young...

Using papers and elements from the Just So Scrappy Kit Shabtastic I have created the biography pages of Jessie Florence "Babe" Rankin to be included in the Rankin Family Genealogy and Heirloom book.

Babe died young at 28 years of age, succumbing to injuries from a horrific car accident that took place in Houston, Texas. Family legend has it that her brother Bill was behind the wheel and brother Mart and sister-in-law Jeannie (Moore) Rankin were also with them. Babe alone perished.

The High Family Connection

As part of the Rankin Family Genealogy and Heirloom Book I am including the High Family Connection. Two of my paternal grandfather's siblings, Hurless Everett "Bill" and Margaret Margene "Jean" Rankin married into the High family; brother and sister Lee Carlton High and Frances Adell High.

Thanks to my father's cousin Lynda (High) Emsick, I have a little collection of Rankin-High family photos which make for an interesting collage behind the High family tree.

I have combined papers and elements from three previously featured digital scrapbooking kits in this layout including, Ooh La La Scrap's Afternoon Stroll, Veronica Sprigg's A Gentleman's Journey and the Family Ties Collection by Ginny Whitcomb.

Uncle Bill's Biography Pages

Designed using the paper and elements of Veronica Sprigg's "A Gentleman's Journey" collection are the biographical pages of my father's Uncle Hurless Everett "Bill" Rankin.