Photo Detective: Religious Occasions Premium
Our Photo Detective demystifies an unusual accessory in this religious image.
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Find out what ancestors from before the era of photography looked like.
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Don't miss the potential photo finds in records such as those of state licensing boards.
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The stories behind old "cased" images on metal and glass may lie in archives of paper.
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There are compelling photographs in every family collection that contain a mystery. In New Zealander Dafanie Goldsmith's family, there is this portrait of a woman in mourning with a haunting expression on her face. She looks so lost that you want to know more about her. In 1904 her...
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Photo Detective: Needle in a Haystack? Premium
Figure 1 Figure 2 As a genealogist you spend time trying to fit together the pieces of a person's life by locating vital records, evidence of activities and whatever else you can find. You hope to create a biography of that ancestor—part of the larger history of your...
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One of the best ways to identify an image is by making it available to others. This week, rather than telling you how I solved a picture puzzle, I'd like to show you how Family Tree Magazine reader Janet Meleney is solving her own photo mystery—with a little help...
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Gena Graddy is looking for a photograph of her Civil War ancestor William Joseph Taylor (1836 to 1895). She has a box of about a hundred unidentified tintypes and thinks one of them might be a picture of Taylor taken before the war. Graddy knows that Taylor was a married...
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Figure 1 Figure 2 David Starr found a family album with about 80 photographs in it and could identify only 15. He randomly selected several images and submitted them to this column. His ancestors didn't take the time to write names on the backs of the images or underneath...
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