Photo Detective
Vote for Your Favorite Bad Hair Day
It's time to vote! My inbox is full of photos from readers and and Facebook followers. So which photo will win? You decide. I've create a survey form on SurveyMonkey.com. Click here to see the photos I selected for the survey and to vote for your favorite. The person...
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Uniforms in the Family
It's not too late to enter your ancestral bad hair photos in my blog contest. See details in last week's post. I can't wait until you see what folks sent in! In the meantime, it's time for another photo mystery. This one is a 20th century challenge. Nancy...
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Hair in the Family: A Contest
At a recent lecture, an attendee told me about an ancestral photo that scared him as a child. The woman had a curl that stood up straight on the top of her head. (He's promised to send me a scan, and as soon as I have it you'll see it...
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Photo Mystery: Mother or Baby?
Marla Hathhorn sent in this picture with a simple question. On the back someone wrote, "Ann Hicks." But is Ann Hicks the baby or the mother?
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Around the World with Family
Reader Carol Norwood is a dedicated genealogist searching for more details of her mother's life in far off Indonesia. Her mother Cita Dromer lived in Sumatra from 1927 to 1940. About a month ago, she sent scan of her mother's Poezie book (a type of scrapbook for poetry and other...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2011
I'm posting a couple of days later than usual this week because I was in London for Who Do You Think You Are? Live. (Plus, I had a little downtime with my English friends.)Maureen solves photo mysteries at WDYTYA? Live.A series of last minute serendipitous things happened this...
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Double Mystery Revisited
Well, this photo problem is a tough case tough to crack. In Double Mystery and Back to the Double Mystery, I analyzed the clues in Sandy Forest's photo of her ancestor Felix Forest and an unidentified man. Have you added your thoughts to the comment section...
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Photo Detective: The Unknown Soldier Premium
Men flocked to studios -- makeshift or established -- to pose in their new uniforms or before a major battle, then proudly sent the images home to relatives anxious for news.
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Back to the Double Mystery
Two weeks ago, in my Double Mystery post, I began dissecting the evidence in a photo owned by Sandy Forest. A couple of readers asked about the hat worn by the man on the right. It's a big clue. It's difficult to read the hat, but it says "Asst. Engineer"...
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Baby Picture Week
Last week, Genealogy Insider blogger Diane Haddad, gave birth to a beautiful baby. In honor of this, I'm featuring your ancestral baby photos. Thank you for all the submissions. Kim Dolce sent in this picture of her grandmother Estelle Miller Moore, who was born May 12, 1911, in Riverside, N...
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