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Easily Date a Family Photograph By Analyzing Hairstyles
Being familiar with changing hairstyles through the decades, helps identify old family photographs. Find resources to help you!
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The Best Way To Store Photos and Keep Them Safe
Learn the best way to store old family photographs to keep them safe for future generations.
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Why You Should Save & Share Family Photos
Save family photos to convey chapters of our family history and serve as passports to our family memories and connections. I am so excited to have Rachel LaCour Niesen of Save Family Photos as guest poster today! Welcome, Rachel! Rachel is on a mission to save family stories, one photo at a time. Once you learn more about Rachel and her website SaveFamilyPhotos, you will be motivated to save your own family stories through your photos, too! Why Save Family Photos? How did you get started? Was there one photograph that started it all? As a former photojournalist, I value storytelling and curation. All great photographs tell stories and…
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Sleuthing for Your Ancestors’ Stories
Welcome to Michelle Ganus Taggart of A Southern Sleuth! I am so excited to have Michelle as a guest blogger today. I know you will enjoy her post as much as I did. I can picture her now, Grandma sitting in her big comfy rocker beside the old black stove. Framed pictures of our ancestors lined the walls above the nearby dining room table. Grandma loved genealogy and we all knew it. A master storyteller, she eagerly shared the stories of our ancestors and we learned to love them. Years later I began my own genealogical research and, as I did, I found myself seeing stories of my ancestors’ lives…