This post is sponsored by The Imaging Alliance; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.  Old family photos tell the stories of our ancestors. They tell a story of physical characteristics passed down from generation to generation. They tell the stories of special occasions. They tell the stories of everyday life. If you have been a longtime reader of Are You My Cousin?, you know  how fortunate I am to have inherited a large collection of family photographs. My great-grandmother Esther Richardson grew up in the early 1900’s when the release of  Kodak’s Brownie camera made photography more accessible (and popular) to the general public. Esther and her friends…

Is it possible for the genealogy researcher to find old family photos? As genealogy researchers, we know a lot about our ancestors. We can place an ancestor on the map at any given point in time.  We know what they did for a living, how many children they had, if faith was important to them, and even if they broke the law. In some cases, we even know about their mental health. What we really want to know is what they looked like?! Secretly, we wonder if we looked like them.  Which side of the family did we take after? We do have options for finding old family photos and…