Scanning Photos: Convex Images
An integral part of the FamilyTreeMagazine.com web site is the reader forum. Did you know there's one called Photo Detective? Anyone can post, all you have to do is register. Last week, someone posted a question that deserves a whole blog column. K. Pherson wrote I have a photo...
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Photo Craft Directions
Several readers wrote to me after the article Photo Crafts From Our Readers. They wanted to know how to create those lovely photo tins and bookmarks. Carol Norwood shared how she made her photo bookmarks:The bookmarks are very simple. I just make them in Microsoft Publisher. I create several long...
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The Trouble With Captions on Old Photos
Barbara DeCrease found a photo in her grandmother's belongings with a one-word caption on the back: Grandfather. The trouble with captions like this is the lack of other identifying information. She doesn't know who wrote it, so she's puzzled. Her grandmother's grandfather was William James Elmore...
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Photo Crafts From Our Readers
Several readers of this blog sent in examples of their creative endeavors that use family photos. You don't want to damage original images by using them in picture-perfect projects, but you can use copies. Here's a gallery of their projects. Carolyn Natsch sent in the above picture of...
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Photo Crafts From Our Ancestors
So far, no one has answered my call in last week's column for pictures of creative endeavors using family photos, but I found an example of a historic photo craft attached to an email from Candace Fountoulakis. She received this photo from her maternal aunt. It's a lovely piece of...
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Share Your Family History Photo Crafts
This week I'm looking for a little reader participation. It's time to show off! Have you created a family history project using your family photos? E-mail me a photo of it and I'll either feature it here, or if I receive enough submissions, I'll put together another slide show.I...
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Photo Favorites
This week I'm taking a break from a long column and featuring a few new online photo finds. I 've been in love with photography for as long as I can remember. Started studying pictures as a toddler and had my first camera in second grade. In high...
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Why the Long Face? Part Two
A few weeks ago I wrote about posing devices employed by photographers to guarantee their clients sat still for their pictures. At that time I also asked if anyone had photographs of the actual head rests and other equipment. Jeffrey W. Deitchler answered the call and sent me two pictures...
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Photographing Children in Our Ancestors’ Day
In honor of Mother's Day, I'm including a short piece on photographing of children from Rhode Island photographers William Coleman and Orville Remington. They were business partners in their studio from 1867 to 1883. During their first year, the men published a booklet advising potential customers how to...
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House History Help: My Favorite Books
My bookshelves are an eclectic mix of volumes on everything from forensic identification of facial features to button history. Any book I think might help analyze a picture ends up in my library. This diversity of titles includes several tomes on house history. If you find yourself with an architecture...
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