July 2010 Making Connections Premium
Readers help us solve a Photo Detective mystery and respond to our 40 best blogs and anniversary issue.
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Sometimes your pressing photo mystery isn’t who or when, but where.
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A mystery photo snapped at a funeral started this family history sleuth on a search that solved a long-standing genealogical mystery. Here's how she did it.
Read MorePhoto Detective: New Zealand Mystery
There are compelling photographs in every family collection that contain a mystery. In New Zealander Dafanie Goldsmith's family, there is this portrait of a woman in mourning with a haunting expression on her face. She looks so lost that you want to know more about her. In 1904 her...
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Rikki Martin has a confusing family photograph. She can identify the posed group as her great-great-grandfather Orton Yaddow, his children and one of his wives. But is the woman with the child on her lap Yaddow's first or second wife? Before immigrating to the United States from Quebec, Canada, in...
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Rosemary U'Ren submitted this photograph, which was left behind in her uncle Frank's boxes of unorganized photographs and genealogical notes. In preparation for writing a family history, Frank had begun labeling the pictures, but he never finished. Now U'Ren wants to complete the job of identifying the pictures and researching...
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Photo Detective: Unsolved Mystery Premium
If dating a photograph is about adding up the clues, what happens when the evidence doesn't add up to a logical conclusion? That's the case with this unnamed, undated photograph (Figure 1) owned by Valda Fernald. The photograph originally belonged to her great-grandmother Sarah Elizabeth (Wyatt) Red. The photographer's imprint...
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It's hard to believe that a year has passed since this column debuted last February. Thank you for submitting your unidentified photographs. Every other week, I review the entire file of submissions and select one to feature in a column. Some of you are extremely patient, having waited months...
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Follow these five steps to your own photo success stories: Show unidentified photographs to relatives. Research clues in the photographs: photographer's name, clothing, props and captions. Post queries about the family (if you know the surname) on online message boards. Post your unidentified images online in a family Web page...
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Front Back In this case study, three different people wrote captions on the back of a photograph. The earliest identifies the image as "My dady (sic) + half brother." Other individuals named the men as "Great Grandfather Pugh, Grandma Youngs father + her brother" and "...
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