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 or a photo-reunion site such as:.
- Dead Fred
deadfred.com - Adopt A Photo
www.adoptaphoto.com - Ancestor Genealogy Photo Archive
ancestorarchive.com - Family Foto Finder
www.familyfotofinder.com - Picture of Yesterday
portraits.geneanet.org/index.php3?origin=flashen - Ancient Faces
www.ancientfaces.com - GeneaNet: Pictures of Yesterday
www.geneanet.org/cartes/request_carte.php3
- Leave contact information at historical societies where you find material on your family.
