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Can my identity be stolen if I post my family tree online? Expert answers for your genealogical questions.
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Genealogy clues in an unusual daguerreotype.
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Family memory and photographic evidence don't always agree. At least that's true in my experience. While many people e-mail me photographs of completely unknown people, some send in images supposedly identified by a relative. Sometimes the information is correct, but often it's a case of mistaken identity. Ken Gibilisco writes...
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Vicki Gibbs' family photo collection contains multiple copies of one photograph—but no original. Sometimes the history of a photograph is like a game of telephone. The person who owns the original makes a copy for a relative and identifies the picture. That person then makes a duplicate for...
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Tracie Rose is determined to find out more about her unusual family name, Bankz. She's posted online queries, searched databases and looked in public records. Now she owns a photo she suspects is of her great-grandfather Jamel Elvin Bankz, his brother, and their parents. Will it help solve her...
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