This is me, I think I am about four years old. Bad posture started at an early age...
Peter Barby, Marianne Seifert, Charlotte Seifert, Erich Seifert, and Anastasia Barby.
Right to left: John Barby, Joan Ramsey, Ed Ramsey, Anastasia Barby, Anna Barby and Charlotte Ferles, wearing her white cooking apron, of course!
Gertrude Seifert and husband Tony. I don't know her married name yet.
Erich and Marianne Seifert, my great uncle and aunt.
Uncle Erich Seifert, Hogback Mountain, Vermont
Great Uncle Rudolf and his grandkids.
ON the back of this photo is says, Siegried English POW. Could be Siegfried Fröhlich.
Mom and Dad's wedding in 1949, in New York.
My mom and I in one of my favorite photos. Here I was twelve.
Dad in the late '40s of '50s.
My passport photo in 1984.
A favorite photo of Charlotte Seifert Ferles, my grandmother we called affectionately, Bü, most likely because she had amazing china-blue eyes and she always wore blue.
My favorite photo. My grandmother Bü, (Charlotte Seifert Ferles), my mom, (Katherine Ferles Sunlin), and my aunt, (Anna Ferles Barby). I don't know where this was taken. I think it was in 1952.
A friend, best friend Iris, Katherine Ferles, and Anna Ferles. Glamorous girls! This is one of my favorite photos.
Mom and Dad, 1980.
Anna and Katherine Ferles posing like models for photos in New York.
Anna Ferles and Katherine Ferles at a dude ranch.
Joan Ferles and Anna Ferles posing for photos.
Joan Ferles, Charlotte Seifert Ferles, and Anna Ferles.
Charlotte Seifert in Connecticut taking clothes from the clothesline. 1954.
Charlotte Seifert in Connecticut taking clothes from the clothesline.
Uncle Erich and Tante Anni at a German picnic.
Mom as a teenager with a friend in Upper New York State.
Joan Ferles Ramsey (Tante Inky) pushing baby Edward in his stroller.
Mom would tell me Uncle Erich would sit with his cat Pumpsie on his lap and pretend to rhythmically pound Pumpsie's paw down on the table demanding, "Ich möchte Gehacktes!" Pumpsie loved raw gehacktes, perhaps Uncle Erich did too!
Charlotte Seifert and a friend in the park.
Tante Anna holding a sled in front of The Seifert Tudor-style house in Syracuse.
Uncle Erich reading the paper and smoking a cigar at home.
Old postcard of Zwickau.
Tante Anni and Oncle Erich in Syracuse house for Weihnachten.
Me at 25 years old in San Diego Hotel del Coronado.
Erich Seifert was President of the United German American Society of Syracuse
Building where Emil Seifert's Workshop was in Zwickau.
Lyddy Stefanie Seifert. Her maiden name was Wirsching. (1853-1927) Zwickau, Sachsen.
Emil Friedrich August Seifert (1852-1909) Zwickau, Sachsen.
