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Message:: [QUOTE="Sedona, post: 12022078, member: 4438"]Thank you, everyone. I am not certain the spelling of her last name.  My mother told me her grandmother’s maiden name was Anna Czernei. Could the name have ended with a “y” instead of an “ie”? It’s possible. Her age in the photo is just a guess.  I just don’t know how long she was in the U.S. either. No, unfortunately she died in a terrible house fire. My grandmother was around 5 years old, and went inside the burning house to save her baby sister (which she did). The story I was told was that her mother Anna also went in the house to find her baby, but she stayed inside too long (not knowing that my grandmother had saved the baby).  After her death, my great grandfather remarried, so my grandmother was raised by a stepmother (who had a number of children with my great grandfather), and she came here to the U.S. in 1937. As indicated, my mother never had any photos of her grandmother (her mom hadn’t brought any photos with her), and at some point (maybe 15 years ago?) her Hungarian cousins gave her this photo. They also told her the story of Anna going from Hungary to New Jersey, taking this photo there, and then returning to Hungary and later getting married. So, we have no chronology as far as ages or dates. My mother promptly had the photo framed and matted.  I’ve never seen the photo out of the frame.  I’ve never seen any childhood photographs of my grandmother, either.[/QUOTE]