https://player.vimeo.com/video/261036540 A listener, Deborah Stock, asked me to talk about how to find family photos. There are photos everywhere from genealogical databases, to books. There is no quick way to search for photos online. It takes time and methodology. Tips Try making a list for each ancestor. Where they lived? Where they worked? Their activities.…
Identifying Family Photographs
This course is for you if you have mystery family photographs or would like to know more about your pictures. Did you know that photo albums tell a story? That’s one of the topics covered in this course.
When you hold a family photograph, you stare at the faces and they look back. It’s a bonding moment that crosses time. Maybe you share their nose or their cowlick, but you’re in a predicament.
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Episode 13: Ancestry Search Tips
In this episode of The Photo Detective, Julianna Szucs of Ancestry.com explains how to search this mega genealogy site. She covers general search strategies, global searches, category searches as well as how to find what you need in individual collections. My personal favorite tip is how to use three different types of wildcard searches. I…
A Photo Full of Mystery
It was a photo I’d seen all my life. It’s my maternal grandmother with two siblings, their parents and her brother’s two children. I thought I knew the story. Turns out I didn’t. It was a classic case of evidence outside the frame. Let’s call it a photo audit. The trouble started when I decided…
Is the Library Reference Department Defunct?
It happened again. I arrived early to a lecture venue at a public library. I thought. Oo. La. La. Books and reference sources, but when I looked around there were only a few short stacks of books and no one in sight. Sigh. Here’s what I remember and why I worry that Reference Departments are…