Posts about the best ways to care for, preserve, interpret, and use family photos & records in your genealogy research.
If you have some mysterious photos, try dating family photos from clothing, hairstyles and jewelry. As someone who named her blog after a 1920s line of dresses, I have some favorite resources on this topic. [...]
Here are five simple steps to preserve family photos that you can do today. I managed archival collections in public and academic libraries for several decades. When people would arrive at the archives with [...]
From my presentation at RootsTech 2018, here are Three Tips for Organizing Genealogy Research Files. Genealogists create lots of digital files in the course of their research. Some are downloads, some are scans of [...]
This Treasure Chest Thursday post is about a Kahns Tea Store 1909 calendar plate, from the Chicago coffee and tea store owned by Carl Wilhelm August Kahns, my mother’s step-grandfather. For years, the calendar [...]
