Photo Detective: Photos Taken Abroad Premium
Get tips and resources for researching foreign photos.
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Photo Detective: Reminisce Over Reunion Photos Premium
Reunions are the perfect opportunity start collaborating on your family history.
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Photo Detective: Family Resemblances Premium
How do you identify a family photograph if you don't even know what side of the family the image belongs to? The answer is to look for physical features that distinguish one side from the other. In Rita Werner's case, the striking resemblance between two women in her photograph collection...
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Photo Detective: The Story Behind the Picture Premium
"Was a formal wedding unusual for the 19th century?" Cora McDonnell asks about this wedding photograph of her grandfather's brother and his wife. In this case, the story surrounding the photograph is as fascinating as the image itself. Cora's grandfather, Otto Frederick Richter, born March 16, 1864, immigrated...
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Photo Detective: Mixed Bag Premium
Analyzing some of the pictures submitted for this column is a bit like making coffee—the percolated kind. I loved these pictures the first time I saw them, but the answers took time (and some extra information from their owners) to "perc." Playing the Game Lucia Perry's family...
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Photo Detective: Determining the Occasion Premium
What's pictured in a photo doesn't always tell the whole story.
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Photo Detective: Pre-Photography Images Premium
Find out what ancestors from before the era of photography looked like.
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Photo Detective: Arkansas Barbers Premium
Don't miss the potential photo finds in records such as those of state licensing boards.
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Photo 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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