Brian Perkins is a very lucky genealogist. He has three out of four of his grandparents still living to help him identify family photographs. They can also help him decipher the genealogical information he found in a great-aunt's apartment. In addition to the scraps of genealogical data she collected, he found a collection of identified photographs. He organized the material using a genealogy software program and discovered that he had photographs of seven of his 16 great-great-grandparents.

Recently, he found a daguerreotype in the possession of one of his grandparents — but this picture's subject was not identified. One of his grandfathers did verify that it's from the paternal side of the family. Since Perkins has images of almost half of those great-grandparents, he's hoping to identify the couple in the daguerreotype through a process of elimination. Seeking help, he submitted a digital copy of the image to the Identifying Family Photographs feature on Family Tree Magazine's Web site <www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp. htm>.