Archives for Maureen A. Taylor
Labeling Your Old Photos Premium
You've got questions about discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history; our experts have the answers.
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Protect Your Holiday Photos
If you're considering sharing or gifting old family photos, follow these tips to make it a photo-safe holiday.
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Photo Detective: Success Stories Premium
Every other week, I select a photograph from the piles of unique and special pictures people send for identification. You probably don't know that several thousand readers check out this column each month and that submissions come from around the world—some from as far away as New Zealand, and an...
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Photo Detective: Family Tall Tales Premium
No doubt about it, Michael R. Boyce has spent a lot of time working on his family history. He's discovered that some of the stories his father told him appear to be true—such as being related to a Dutch sea captain. He's also uncovered photographs of many of...
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Photo Detective: A Scottish Brood Premium
"My mother came up with a fabulous gift today—a small box of photographs," writes Judy Noel in her e-mail that accompanied this picture. As with all boxes of family photographs, some are identified while others are unknown. Of course, there are also those images that seem...
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Photo Detective: Collected Evidence Premium
Helen Kesinger owns a special family treasure. It's a photograph album with an inscription: "Atchison, KS, Sept. 30, 1877. Dear Louise! Accept this album as a token of kind remembrance of your true and affectionate grandmother, Wilhelmine Scherer." This token of affection from a grandmother to her granddaughter...
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Photo Detective: Bequeathing Your Photos Premium
What's going to happen to your photographs? When there is a death in the family, relatives may divide up the pictures. If no one wants them, photographs—especially unidentified ones—can end up being discarded or sold by whoever receives the leftover belongings. You can prevent your family's photographic heritage from...
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Photo Detective: Finding Photos Online Premium
Recently, I've received several emails from folks who purchased photos from online vendors hoping the individuals pictured are kin. Is it possible to actually locate a long-lost photograph of a relative? Sure. Stranger things have happened in the world of genealogy. At a photo show a couple of years ago...
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Photo Detective: Afternoon Outing Premium
Jo Ratliff hopes this photograph depicts her grandmother and her grandmother's three sisters: Minnie (born 1876), Mert (born 1880), Lela (born 1882) and Mary (born 1884). But the confusing visual details make it difficult to say for sure. Sorting out the clues in this picture required searching for data in...
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