4/1/2004
By Maureen A. Taylor
Tackle even your toughest picture puzzles with this formula for photo identification.
Jackie Hufschmid is one determined genealogist. It took three years, but she finally identified the young couple in this family photograph. You can duplicate her success by following these three steps to solve your own picture puzzles.
1. Add up all the photographic evidence. Hufschmid submitted this portrait for my first Identifying Family Photographs column on FamilyTreeMagazine.com, and we established a date for the image by analyzing these clues:
? Type of photograph: Mounted on a 4½x6½-inch piece of cardstock, this portrait is an example of a cabinet card. Introduced in 1866, cabinet cards were popular into the early 20th century.