Photo Tips to Start Your New Year Right
Ready to kick off 2018 with a bang? Here are Photo Detective Maureen Taylor's photo research and preservation tips to start your year right!
Read MoreHow Old Photos Make Time Travel Possible
Taking a vacation isn't new. Generations of our ancestors did the same thing (if they could take the time off work). Since it's August and a good time for a trip, I thought I'd share two older columns. A man bought this photo at a sale and then put it...
Read More3 Old Photo Stories You Can Tell Today
What are you going to do with all your old photos? You can tuck them away for safekeeping or you can use them to tell your family about their ancestors. Or, you can do both. Your original prints belong in acid- and lignin-free boxes, but you can use...
Read More3 Easy Best Practices For the Photos You Take Today
Trust me. Your descendants will thank you if you follow these three best practices. Our ancestors didn't take as many pictures as we do today. They had film cameras or had to go to a studio to document a moment. A photo do-over wasn't as easy as it...
Read MoreWhy I Love Old Photos (And You Should, Too!)
Happy New Year! Collection of the author, 1898.It's that time of year for resolutions. If you feel you need to make one, here's an easy one that's simple to keep—but very important: Take care of your photos. Investing in a few of the right kind of storage...
Read MoreA Year of Passionate Photo Detecting: What Did You Miss?
On this Photo Detective blog, 2016 was a year of early color (and colorized) photos, photo-ID tips and crowd-sourcing. If you missed the most-popular posts, don't worry. The links in this 2016 wrap-up will take you them. Photo Identification TipsNewspapersWe started the year off right with a big...
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Facebook and Family Photographs
I'm always looking for more family photos, trying to fill in the pictorial blanks in my family tree. There are a LOT of people in my genealogy that fall into that "blank" category. Searching for "new" family pictures means asking distant relatives and trolling the internet. There'ss one very popular...
Read MoreMy Favorite Photo Websites of 2014
Happy New Year! Here are some websites that readers and friends told me about in 2014. Add them to your to-do list of sites worth exploring in 2015. Edit and Share PhotosPixlr.com Not a week goes by that I don't take time to explore new ways to...
Read MoreWho Do You Think You Are? Live!
As you read this, I'm still in the London, England area visiting with friends. Here's a glimpse of me at last year's Who Do You Think You Are? Live! show. It's exhilarating to meet with so many people to discuss their photos. As you can tell from the smile on...
Read MoreReuniting Orphan Photos With Family
Have you ever walked into an antique store and found a photo with a name on it? This is known as an orphan photo. At some point in its photographic lifespan, it became separated from its family. Photos are rarely mentioned in probate records, their inheritance often a...
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