Family Archive Project
I began this project for my father and it has blossomed into far more than I ever expected.
You can start here:
http://markerickson.com/Family_History/Family_Photographs/

One of the reasons I decided to maintain many of the pages on this Find A.....site was getting to know so many of my family through their photos and documents. I knew many of them personally, but to know them in their youth was an unique experince made possible by the 1000s of photographs that I inherited from my father. So to contribute photos and biographies on the folk I knew and others here is a privilege and something I feel important.

From the beginning once i began the Family Archive Project I wrote my
father's biography.

It begins:

Time holds still in our memory, and if we pay attention, the days we spend with our families will provide stories we can hold onto from childhood through adulthood.

The life we lead reflects the lessons held in these memories. They push us forward - legends in our minds which over time become truths upon which we rely, and upon which we base our life’s most important decisions. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” suggested the newspaper reporter in the film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of my father's favorite westerns. We reflect on past adventures, even as they become part of our future.

For my father, like most others of his generation, memories of his experiences in World War II formed the truths upon which he based the important decisions of his life. He shared many of these memories with me during his lifetime, and these shared memories have helped define my life, as they had my father’s.

Since his death in 2013, I have learned more about his wartime experiences piloting a B-17 bomber by looking through his memorabilia, reading about the experiences of his contemporaries, and corresponding with other researchers. The more I have learned, the more I have come to appreciate the extraordinary challenges he and his wartime companions faced, and the extraordinary courage they demonstrated.

continue reading :
http://markerickson.com/Family_History/Ernest_Erickson/Bio-Ernest_Anders_Erickson.pdf

Family Archive Project
I began this project for my father and it has blossomed into far more than I ever expected.
You can start here:
http://markerickson.com/Family_History/Family_Photographs/

One of the reasons I decided to maintain many of the pages on this Find A.....site was getting to know so many of my family through their photos and documents. I knew many of them personally, but to know them in their youth was an unique experince made possible by the 1000s of photographs that I inherited from my father. So to contribute photos and biographies on the folk I knew and others here is a privilege and something I feel important.

From the beginning once i began the Family Archive Project I wrote my
father's biography.

It begins:

Time holds still in our memory, and if we pay attention, the days we spend with our families will provide stories we can hold onto from childhood through adulthood.

The life we lead reflects the lessons held in these memories. They push us forward - legends in our minds which over time become truths upon which we rely, and upon which we base our life’s most important decisions. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” suggested the newspaper reporter in the film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of my father's favorite westerns. We reflect on past adventures, even as they become part of our future.

For my father, like most others of his generation, memories of his experiences in World War II formed the truths upon which he based the important decisions of his life. He shared many of these memories with me during his lifetime, and these shared memories have helped define my life, as they had my father’s.

Since his death in 2013, I have learned more about his wartime experiences piloting a B-17 bomber by looking through his memorabilia, reading about the experiences of his contemporaries, and corresponding with other researchers. The more I have learned, the more I have come to appreciate the extraordinary challenges he and his wartime companions faced, and the extraordinary courage they demonstrated.

continue reading :
http://markerickson.com/Family_History/Ernest_Erickson/Bio-Ernest_Anders_Erickson.pdf