Archives for Maureen A. Taylor
Photo Detective: Dressed for the Occasion Premium
Clues in this couple's finest attire can help identify them.
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Discover Your Culinary Heritage Premium
Your kin's favorite fare is fortified with family facts and memories. Serve up a helping of history with our guide to discovering and preserving your food heritage.
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Photo Detective: Beyond Names and Dates Premium
Figure 1 Figure 2 Which is worse? Having an unidentified photograph, or owning an identified image and not knowing anything about the person in the picture? For Michelle Hawkins-Woodard, it is the latter. Her family owns two pictures. Figure 1 is a family photograph of Ella Emma Gust, Jack...
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Photo Detective: Louisiana History Premium
Cherryl Montgomery found this tintype in her grandmother's trunk, and thinks it's a picture of one of her great-grandmothers—either Clara Henry Jean Louis or Marie Virginie Broussard. In the absence of a photographer's imprint—which could supply a specific date for the image—it's necessary to analyze each of...
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Photo Detective: Relatively Mysterious Premium
Readers of this column always have something in common. Although each of your photos is unique (I haven't seen any duplicates yet), you pose similar sets of questions about them. The most frequent one? That's easy: "Which relative is it?" Working with family photographs and genealogical information is...
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Photo Detective: Dressed to Impress Premium
You never know what you'll find in a family photo collection. Imagine Carole Gefvert's surprise when she found these unidentified images in a box after her mother's death. All Gefvert knows for certain about her mother is that she died in 1971. Could these photographs have belonged to her mother...
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Photo Detective: Mistaken Identity Premium
Vicki Gibbs' family photo collection contains multiple copies of one photograph—but no original. Sometimes the history of a photograph is like a game of telephone. The person who owns the original makes a copy for a relative and identifies the picture. That person then makes a duplicate for...
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Photo Detective: Saving the Past Premium
Shirley Holdahl owns this deteriorating tintype, and she wants to know if there’s a way to save it. Anyone with a photo in poor condition has probably wondered the same thing. The answer is yes! Let’s look at the options. First on the list is identifying the person...
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Photo Detective: Networking for Photos Premium
Got gaps in your family photo collection? Here are some ways to start filling in the blanks in your album and finding pictures of your ancestors.
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Photo Detective: By the Seashore Premium
Judy Miller sent a long note explaining who she thought was in the portrait. She was really hoping this picture shows her great-great-grandmother, Mary Jane Adams Waters, born about 1810, her great-grandmother Eleanor Waters Williamson, born 1847, and two of Eleanor's sisters. As soon as I clicked on the picture...
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