3 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 MorePhoto Reunions after Hurricane Sandy
A year ago, Hurricane Sandy stormed into the East Coast of the United States destroying property and taking lives. Generations of family photographs were blown or washed out of destroyed and damaged houses. In the midst of the aftermath and chaos, one woman began focusing on images she found scattered...
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...
Read MoreIt’s a Family Reunion
Have you ever been to a family reunion? I'm writing this from my husband's reunion. It's an every-other-year event that's been held since the mid-20th century. There's a lot of debate about when the first one was held. Here are two observations: The coordinator is an...
Read MoreScenes of Moving Day
I've been packing boxes for weeks getting ready to move houses. So how did our ancestors move their belongings in the past? They employed wagons and later, vans similar to the ones companies use today. Sharon Pike sent in this picture of her father-in-law's Greyhound Van Lines Truck that he...
Read MoreWho Do You Think You Are? Live 2011
I'm posting a couple of days later than usual this week because I was in London for Who Do You Think You Are? Live. (Plus, I had a little downtime with my English friends.)Maureen solves photo mysteries at WDYTYA? Live.A series of last minute serendipitous things happened this...
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In Honor of Martin Luther King Day
I realized today that I don't spend enough time on Flickr. If you're not familiar with it, try it today. It's a wonderful free resource. You can upload picture files, invite comments and share your pictorial heritage. If you want unlimited uploads and storage, user statistics and more...
Read MorePhoto Sites: Read the Fine Print
Yesterday's New York Times featured an article, Guardians Of Their Smiles, on the uses and abuses of photo sites. In it, a woman had posted baby pictures to Flickr without using the privacy settings, and later discovered that someone had used her daughter's pictures on a social networking site in...
Read MorePhotos on the Web: Copyright Woes
If you've ever tried to copy a family photo at a store or photo lab and been denied due to copyright issues, there's an article you might be interested in. On July 19, the New York Times published an article about photos on Wikipedia, "Wikipedia May Be a Font of...
Read MorePicture Origins: Overseas or in America
In response to last week's column on tinted pictures, Barbara Stone sent in this oversize hand colored photo of a young woman. It's on canvas and framed in a gorgeous gold setting. According to Stone is was found in a collection of pictures of her father's...
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