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Colorized Old Photos Offer Rare Glimpses of Your Ancestors’ World
Recently a collection of colorized historical images of immigrants at Ellis Island went viral. It's a pretty snazzy group of pictures. And these images are historically accurate: The historians behind this project researched actual colors in use at the time. You can see the photos here. Somehow, the color makes...
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Clues in a Curious Old Family Photo: The First Mannequin Challenge?
It's not the first time a family photo begs the question "What were they thinking?" That's the case with this image of family sitting as though they're doing a mannequin challenge. The story behind this clowning for the camera has been lost, and the picture lacks identification. It was...
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Sharing is Caring When It Comes to Family Photos
This week's post is from Vanessa Wieland, online editor for Family Tree University, with gratitude and credit to Sandra Mingua Stephens for the photos and the inspiration. A week or so ago my mother’s friend, Sandy, posted some pictures on Facebook. The first was of she and my mom and...
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Clues in a 1900s Mystery Photo of the Old Family Farm
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Planning a menu for that important family meal makes me think about how all that food ended up on my grandmother's table. There are no farmers in my family history, so I love to see reader's photos of rural life. Darlene Sampley...
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Death Photography: Is it For Real?
There's no shortage of creepy postmortem photography on the web. But are those images the real thing? Here's a bit of history to separate fact from fiction.
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Tintype Photos: Best of Photo Detective
Photo Detective was a long-running FamilyTreeMagazine.com blog. Here, we've combined the best posts about tintype photos.
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Family Photo Book Project Worksheets Free Downloads
These two worksheets are designed to assist you create and organize old family photos for your projects.
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A Pair of Photo Mysteries: Charcoal-Enhanced 1840s Portraits
Darlene Sampley isn't sure who the young woman is in the painted tintype featured in last week's column, but she working on figuring out the mystery. But that tintype isn't the only problem photo in Darlene's collection. This week it's a pair of portraits, of a mysterious man and woman...
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Family History Month: Focus on One Old Photo Collection
Thank you Darlene Sampley! I met Darlene last month in San Diego at an all-day seminar for the San Diego Genealogical Society. We started talking about her family photo collection and I started thinking about Family History Month, which genealogists traditionally observe in October. Hmm. Wouldn't it be...
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Wavy Hair in Your Family Photos
Last week, I wrote about how "radium perms" gave our ancestors' hair smooth curls. Two readers sent me pictures of their female ancestors with wavy hair. Whether permed or created with a curling iron, these female ancestors ended up with lovely 'dos. Sharon Haskin Galitz sent in a 1928 graduation...
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