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Family photograph collections contain a wonderful variety of pictures documenting all aspects of life and, in many cases, death. In the Elliott family for instance, this funeral photograph memorializes the death of an unidentified young girl. While it can be a startling experience to find postmortem or funeral images in...
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Here's proof that your immigrant ancestors sent photographs of themselves to family back home. Angelika Tanterl of Munich, Germany, submitted this picture of her great-aunt Pauline with a series of questions. Boy or Girl Q. My great aunt Pauline Scholz was 19 years in 1905, when she moved to the...
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Take time to identify family portraits, and you'll reap unlimited rewards.
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