My husband got me a membership to ancestry.com for Mother’s Day. Yesterday I found a few cool documents pertaining to Jacob Zollinger. The above image is a screen shot of his passport application. Notice the “description of applicant” at the very bottom. That is my favorite part. I also found a picture of him as an older man:
Nice to meet you, sir.
Tales of an aspiring family historian 
I wonder if the descriptions at the bottom are self descriptions or if someone else assigns those adjectives. Can you imagine an immigration officer taking the passport and trying to decide if his face truly is “pleasant”or not.