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Finding Hidden Nuns in Your Family Tree: Researching Catholic Sisters with Sunny Morton

If you’ve ever been told, “If there’s a nun in your family, figure out her order,” you’re not alone—and you’re probably also wondering how on earth to do that. In

Reading, Writing, and Exporting Metadata: Meet the Family History Metadata Working Group

In today’s world companies are focused on business objectives, versus your personal archive and legacy. It’s important for you to know what’s available, what can be done, and what you

A Photo Mystery and a Family Argument

Photo captions can be short, incomplete, mysterious, or full of clues. It all depends on who’s writing it and when. The caption on this image is different. It’s in two

6 Reasons to Use Facial Recognition in a Photo Organizer?

1. It Speeds Up Identification Instead of manually reviewing thousands of images, facial recognition narrows your focus. It gathers every instance of a face in one place, making it easier

Find the Faces Faster: Why Facial Recognition Is a Game-Changer for Family Photos

Over the weekend, I uploaded around 2K photos to my Forever.com account. These were family photos, vacation images, and a catch-all of older photos. To speed up the process, I

The Stories Hidden in Family Photo Albums

As the Photo Detective, I’ve handled hundreds of photo albums—everything from 1860s carte de visite collections to black paper albums of the 1910s, oversized Gilded Age volumes that resemble family

Do You Know Where All Your Photos Are?

It’s confession time. I thought I knew the answer to that question. I don’t. Recently, while creating a slideshow for an upcoming family event, I had to face an uncomfortable

Don’t Leave Your Descendants Guessing: How to Caption Family Photos

Sometimes captions on the back of photographs leave us wondering what the writer was thinking. The handwritten note on the back of this card photograph tells us just enough to

Digitization Options: Ancestry.com, Forever.com and DIY

A new service caught my eye at RootsTech. Ancestry now offers a mail-in digitization service for photographs, slides, negatives, video, and audio. I stopped by their booth to ask questions

A Quiet Life, A Lasting Legacy: Remembering My Nana

Eliza Jane Wilson, circa 1912, photo on silk. Collection of the author In honor of International Women’s Day, I want to celebrate a woman who never appeared in headlines and

The Story in the Details: Wedding Notice Reveals

On Friday, July 7, 1905, the Globe Gossip column of the Fall River Globe carried a single wedding notice for a June 28th event. In a city filled with mill

Not Every Uniform is Civil War: How a Photographer’s Imprint Solved the Mystery

Look at this photograph quickly, and you might assume it dates to the Civil War. It doesn't. Dating an image often relies on a combination of clues-the who, what, when,

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