12/21/2010
By Maureen Taylor
Turn your digital camera into a handy research tool! Our genealogist’s guide to digital photography offers tips on taking five kinds of family history photos.
In the beginning of amateur photography, you pushed the button and the company did the rest. But in the digital photography age, you do it all: print, edit and store your photos. You can take an endless number of pictures, preview them as you go, discard bad ones, and then upload and edit.
Cameras’ bells and whistles let you take great pictures of the grandkids and your favorite vacation spots—but they’re also handy for shooting genealogical subject matter such as relatives’ gravestones, ancestral homes, family heirlooms and historical documents you find at the library. Start thinking of your camera as a genealogy tool. It can be an integral part of your roots research, and our family historian’s guide to digital photography will show you how, with tips for capturing five key family history items.