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It turns out that selfies aren't such a new phenomenon. The technology has just evolved. Here's a look at how our ancestors took pictures of themselves.
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This episode's theme is the 175th Anniversary of Photography. Learn about photo editing and retouching for genealogists, cool photo features on sites like MyHeritage and FamilySearch.org, and hear about the history of photography from the Photo Detective herself, Maureen Taylor.
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Two of the most popular photo editing and sharing programs out there, Google's Picasa and Microsoft's Windows Live Photo Gallery, are great tools for genealogists to organize digital images.
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Having trouble attaching names to the faces in your family portraits? Fill in the blanks with our step-by-step photo-identification guide and worksheet.
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Find out what ancestors from before the era of photography looked like.
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Think you've uncovered all the clues in your family photos? Use these resources to discover surprising details about your kin.
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Web Sites American Memory Project memory.loc.gov: Search by collection or the entire group of 7 million digitized records. Getty Research Institute www.getty.edu/research/library: The institute developed The Art and Architecture Thesaurus and The Union List of Artists' Names. You can search its databases through an online catalog...
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New products, Web sites and trends that will influence not only your photographic habits, but also what you do with your heritage images.
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