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Photo Detective: Searching for Photos on the Web Premium
I have a friend who tantalizes me with her genealogical success stories. One of my favorites is about how she used a standard Web search engine to locate an ancestral photo on the family Web site of a distant and unknown cousin. Suddenly she had additional information on that line...
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Recently, I've received several emails from folks who purchased photos from online vendors hoping the individuals pictured are kin. Is it possible to actually locate a long-lost photograph of a relative? Sure. Stranger things have happened in the world of genealogy. At a photo show a couple of years ago...
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What's going to happen to your photographs? When there is a death in the family, relatives may divide up the pictures. If no one wants them, photographs—especially unidentified ones—can end up being discarded or sold by whoever receives the leftover belongings. You can prevent your family's photographic heritage from...
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