Here are photos and videos of Ginger and her family from when they lived in Illinois. Ginger wrote an essay memoir that included those years called My Big Fat Polish Family.

Newborn Ginger - November 5, 1954

Ginger at 3 months - February 17, 1955

Ginger with grandma Maria Cook - early 1956?

Ginger at 2 years, November 1956

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Ginger at 2 years, Steven Ruck in center - October, 1956

Joseph & Bernice Wolnik with Michele's Christening cake - March 31?, 1957

Loretta and Ginger in 1957

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Home movie with Ginger and Shelly early 1958, click to play

Home movie with grandparents in early 1958, click to play

Home movie of Easter with Wolnik grandparents, April 6, 1958, click to play

Shelly, Emil, Ginger - April 1958?

Home movie of Ginger's 4th birthday, Nov 5, 1958, click to play

Home movie of Wolnik Christmas morning, December 25, 1958, click to play

Home movie of Christmas Party (at Rucks?), December 25, 1958, click to play

Ginger and Shelly - January, 1959

Home movie of Easter with the Rucks, March 29, 1959, click to play

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