From Chaos to Order: Where To Begin Organizing Old Photos
This post contains affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for more info. I recently shared that I am an organizing junkie….and a flunkie! I desperately want my genealogy nice and organized. I want my files easy to find. I’ve worked hard to achieve that. I may not have a perfect system (does one even exist?), but I do have a system that works for me. You do, too, right? If you are still struggling with organizing your “paper” genealogy files, read more about that is this post. Now…where do you begin when organizing old photos? One of the great things about being our family historian is relatives send me photographs…
Tuesday’s Genealogy Tip – School Photos + Flickr
Flickr may not be your first thought for locating photographs of your ancestors, but it can be a great source. Listen and find out why.
16 Posts To Help You Identify Old Photographs
Do you have unidentified photographs of your ancestors in your collection? I think many genealogy researchers do. Among my own personal collection I have a large number of photographs of unknown individuals. Family? Friends? Neighbors? I’m really not sure on some. The question very quickly becomes “How do we identify those individuals?”. As researchers, we must first educate ourselves about antique photographs. It’s an “Identify Old Photographs” Round Up! Below, find 16 Are You My Cousin? posts all containing techniques and strategies to identify types of photographs, fashions and other important clues to learn more about your ancestors’ photographs. How To Determine the Date of an Old Family Photograph A…
Finding Your Ancestors in School Yearbooks
Do you use yearbooks in your genealogy research? Yearbooks can be a fantastic resource to find your ancestor’s photograph. They have been popular for many years and can be found for dating back to the 1800’s. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a school yearbook is photographs. Of course, we all remember our own school picture days. We enjoyed getting dressed up, making sure our hair was just so and just hoping (please, please…) that our photo session came before PE class. What genealogical gems can you find in a school yearbook? A photograph of your ancestor. Photographs of your ancestor’s siblings and/or cousins. In rural…
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