Archives for Maureen A. Taylor
How to Win the Family Photo Lottery
I've lost track of exactly how long I've been writing this column. The first edition of my book Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs was published in 2000, and I started this column in February of the following year. That means you've been reading about identifying family photographs...
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Switching Gears Premium
Think tracing your tree back in time is the only way to go? Guess again. We got some unconventional researchers to share their reverse genealogy secrets.
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Photo Fun with Friends
Way back in August, I asked for photos of people smiling. In response to that request Teri Colglazier sent me this photo. The woman in the back left has a toothy grin, probably because this group of friends has decided to have fun in front of the camera. No costumes...
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Places, Please Premium
Sometimes your pressing photo mystery isn’t who or when, but where.
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Head Toppers
As you know I love hairstyles, but I'm also a hat person. No, I don't wear one, but I wish I did. Given this fascination with brimmed accessories, is it any wonder I couldn't pass up Bro. Joseph F. Martin's challenge?This photo depicts his great-grandparents Nicholas and...
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Photo Identification in the News
Readers of this column will be as fascinated as I was with these two articles on photo identification. In the January 2010 issue of Smithsonian Magazine is the story of an unidentified daguerreotype owned by Jack and Beverly Wilgus. In it a handsome young man stands facing the camera holding...
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March 2010 Photo Detective: The Graduates Premium
Uncovering the clues in historical photos.
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Texas Twosome Revisited
Last week's tease mentioned that I'd solved a persistent mystery. Ah ... I really thought I had the answer to the Texas mystery. Late last year I ran a three-installment story about these two men in their embroidered shirts. In the first piece, I showed you the pictures and mentioned some...
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Establishing Dates for Color Photographs Premium
If fashions and faces don't help you date your old color prints, an odd size or format may do the trick.
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True Colors Premium
Photography’s exciting evolution from shades of gray to a rainbow of color isn’t without a few dark clouds. Use this historical guide to understand the developments in your own family albums.
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