Dating Family Photos By Clothing
Try dating family photos from clothing, hairstyles, and jewelry for clues on those mysterious images. As someone who named her blog after a 1920s line of dresses, I have some favorite resources on this [...]
Try dating family photos from clothing, hairstyles, and jewelry for clues on those mysterious images. As someone who named her blog after a 1920s line of dresses, I have some favorite resources on this [...]
Making family photos into digital icons adds a personal family history touch to any file or folder on your iMac or MacBook. And it's easy to do! Because it's been a while since I [...]
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 [...]
Don't know about you, but I am not restoring digital family photos myself. I'd rather have a root canal – and let's be specific about no anesthetic – than fiddle with photo restoration and [...]
Tuesday's tip is to check the backs of old framed family photos. Framers often used cardboard and scrap wood to back photographs in their frames in the early twentieth century. These backing materials are [...]
The Library of Congress wants your family Halloween photos from 2014. Are you photographing hayrides, haunted houses, parades, or trick-or-treating this year with adorable children and grandchildren? The Library of Congress wants you! (And I hope someday [...]
Cataloging Digital Family Photographs and Records brings order to your family papers, making every image you own searchable. Family photographs may seem so complex that they defy organizing. With this Sassy Jane Genealogy eBook, you can [...]
Have you heard of hidden mothers in family photos? Photography collectors prize these 19th-century photos. But I haven't encountered this in connection with genealogy. Hidden Mother Photos Babies were held by disguised mothers to [...]
Are you interested in finding photos of immigrant ships that your ancestors boarded to emigrate to North America? Navigating for Images of Ships Guide The Library of Congress offers a new research guide for [...]
Find Old Schlesien Photos at Wratislaviae Amici Portal. The Wratislaviae Amici portal features nearly one million photographs, maps, headstones, advertisements, and articles about Breslau (now Wrocław) and Schlesien (Lower Silesia). More than 28,000 users are registered [...]
Today I'm contemplating the combination of photo booths and family. Frieda and the Photo Booth I found this photo strip of my grandmother recently. My father's mother, Frieda Hann, was born late in December [...]
Finding family photo clues is an important skill for any genealogist. Clues usually lie inside family photos every genealogist possesses. Learn about resources for family photo clues using the main image (above). Hann [...]
Here are some tips for interviewing relatives for family history.The suggestions here come from my own professional experience, and from colleagues at the Society of California Archivists and the Oral History Association. Holiday gatherings may not [...]
Do you want to help the Library of Congress by making historic newspaper photos searchable? Beyond Words makes historic newspaper photos searchable by transcribing captions. This new Library of Congress crowdsourcing project invites volunteers to [...]
Are you caring for scrapbook family photographs? Do your scrapbook family photographs look like the one above? Here are some solutions from an archivist-genealogist. During #AskAnArchivist Day, Missy asked: I've been given large portions [...]
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