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  • Where does a genealogy research begin organizing old photos? Go from chaos to order and keep precious family photos easy to find!
    Old Family Photos,  Organize Your Genealogy

    How To Get Started with Photo Organization of Old Family Photos

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    Tackling a photo organization project? Tips and tricks to help the family historian organize and preserve old family photos. 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? Dare I say my system is “imperfectly perfect” for me? If you are still struggling with organizing your “paper” genealogy files, read more about that is this post. Now…where does one begin an old…

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  • Using PicMonkey to edit images of historical documents used in genealogy research and make them easier to read and analyze. The document can be cropped, highlighted, sharpened, enlarged....Many possibilities exist to make your document more easily read.
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    This post contain affiliate links.  Read my full disclosure policy here. This is not a sponsored post. “How do you read those old documents?!” This is a  common genealogy research question I get frequently from my non-genealogy friends and newbie genealogists as well – especially those of us who need a little more help with our vision these days !  Bifocals, trifocals, progressive lenses…..I might have a little experience with  that. Wills, estate records, tax records, court minutes…..these are all records we as genealogists use on a regular basis. Typically I will take a digital photograph of documents I use.  Finding our ancestors’ documents in a legible script and well preserved…

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  • Old Family Photos

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    Techniques and strategies to identify old photographs. Date an old photo and find other important clues in your old family photos. 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. It’s actually a wonderful problem to have! Are they family? Friends? Neighbors? I’m really not sure on some. I expect it’s a mixture of both. When you come across old family photos that are not labeled, the question very quickly becomes “How do we identify those individuals? Is it even possible?”. As researchers, we must first educate…

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    Genealogy and unidentified photographs seem to go hand and hand. Try these four tips to help you identify the individuals in your old family photos!

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  • 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. Besides photos, genealogists can learn about an ancestor's personality, too. Let's take a closer look at these "out of the genealogy box" records.
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    Finding Your Ancestors in School Yearbooks

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    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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