Photo Detective: Lucky Find Premium
Figure 1 Figure 2 Is there a photograph that led you to new information about your family? Have you successfully identified photographs in your family album? I would love to hear about your successes and share them in an upcoming article in Family Tree Magazine. If I include your...
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Dig out your old photographs of ancestors in foreign lands and their new homes—they might unlock answers about your family's immigrant origins. Once you've translated the photographer's signature and associated clothes with dates and places, it's time to pull out the magnifying glass and pay attention to the photograph's other...
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Family memory and photographic evidence don't always agree. At least that's true in my experience. While many people e-mail me photographs of completely unknown people, some send in images supposedly identified by a relative. Sometimes the information is correct, but often it's a case of mistaken identity. Ken Gibilisco writes...
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I'll admit it: I don't make the typical New Year's resolutions. Instead, I make a flexible list of goals for the new year. Posting that list where I can see it keeps me on track and reminds me of what's important. You can do the same with general goals or...
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Genealogists are among the most technologically savvy segments of the population: If there's a new gadget or tool that will simplify our research, we'll snatch it up right away. After all, we were some of the first folks to use digital cameras, scanners, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the Internet...
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Can't find the family history illustration you want for a gift, your family history book or an album? Consider having a pro create a piece or to do the looking for you. These hiring hints will help.
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Photo Detective: Mistaken for Jake Premium
Barbara Jean McNamara's grandmother always referred to the man in this portrait as "Jake." But there are two Jakes in the Baptiste family tree, and McNamara doesn't know which one is pictured here—Jacob Pierre Baptiste (1795-1877) or his son Jacob Pierre Baptiste Jr. (1822-1899). She thinks...
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Barbara Dyer knows this man, who posed wearing fraternal insignia, is her great-grandfather. She also knows he was a Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) from 1872 to 1883 in Wisconsin, and from 1883 to 1921 in Iowa. The IOOF came to America in...
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Clues that indicate you have a Civil War-era carte de visite photo of a woman in mourning.
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Dave Woolgar's father left him a legacy of family photos. Though most of images are unidentified, his dad did help him note family relationships on a few. This picture of an elderly woman, for example, is captioned "great-great-grandmother born about 1820 in England." That would make her Woolgar's...
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