Photos

Orphan Photos and Photo Sharing

Last week on the Today Show I mentioned DeadFred.com. It's a fun site for folks trying to reconnect with lost family photos or to post pictures if you want photos to lead the way to a reunion with lost family. It's a win-win either way. There are...

Photo Detective Talks Roots on Today

This isn’t Maureen. I’m Diane from Family Tree Magazine’s Genealogy Insider blog—I'm dropping in to share the video of Maureen’s spots on NBC’s "Today" show this morning, giving tips on how to trace your roots. She answers viewer questions in the first spot with Al Roker, and talks about photo...

Postmortem Images

Remember how last week I mentioned that this column would feature a "viewer discretion advised" image? The sight of a deceased person in a photo is the reason for the warning. Like it or not, our ancestors began photographing the dead members of their family in the early 1840s. If...

Photo Detective: Posing with the Old Homestead Premium

Photo Detective Maureen A. Taylor examines photos taken in front of the family homestead.

Photo Detective: Keeping the Peace Premium

Photographs entertain us with glimpses of the past and trigger long-lost memories, but in this case, one caused a minor family feud. Two of Lisa Wooldridge's aunts disagree with her about the man in this group portrait—is he the children's father or their grandfather? Wooldridge has compared these two...