Photo Detective: Dating Women’s Clothing Premium
Having trouble identifying the women in your family photos? Clothing can help you date the photos and narrow your search. Here are three details to look for.
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How your old photos were taken is the first clue to when they were taken. Use our timeline of photographic methods to date and preserve images from your family’s past.
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Sometimes your pressing photo mystery isn’t who or when, but where.
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Some genealogy jobs are best left to the professionals. When you need a hand, consult our don’t-do-it-yourself guide.
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Three ways to increase your payoff when paying for online databases.
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Time magazine once ran an essay by Garrison Keillor about a European trip he took with his two brothers and a sister. Keillor noted that during the trip the siblings talked about events from their childhood in a way they couldn't have, if non-siblings had been present. And, although they...
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Calling Long-Distance Premium
Talk is cheap when you call via computer. Try these services to phone far-away kin at no (or low) cost.
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Look at the cluster idea from another perspective. Successful genealogists use more than a one-person-one-name-only approach to research. If Ann's birth, along with her parents' names, was not registered in public records, you have to look for her parents' names in other documents. If you look only for records that...
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The music will be hot, but the history will be even hotter when the nation's genealogists converge on Austin, Texas, Sept. 8 to 11 for the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies conference. (See www.fgs.org/2004conf/fgs-2004.htm, call (888) 347-1500 or write Box 200940, Austin, TX 78720 for conference information.)
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