photos
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Organizing Vintage Photos
Dec 14
Yes, you might have boxes of old photos, ones handed down through several generations. However, unless they are organization and especially labeled, they are not very useful to the family historian. It will take commitment to achieve such a task of organizing the collection of photos, but once it is finished - you will be so happy. That was one ...
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Save Those Emails to PDF
Dec 10
It can come in very handy to have a method that is super easy to save your emails. An Internet server goes down it is great if the email message you wanted to save were on your computer hard drive and then backed-up on an another drive or disc. The company 'PDFConvert' can do that - free. PDF means 'portable digital file.' When you have an emai...
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Mug Shots of the 1920s
Nov 20
Mug shots are those images taken at police stations for people arrested, whether they are guilty or not. Those photos can be kept by a police department for decades. Online is an interesting collection of about 21 mug shots, some of an individual person, others of a group of men. Many have a name written with the photo along with a date. These w...
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Victorian Photos – 1870s
Nov 18
Many photographs taken in other parts of the world during certain time periods can be just as useful in helping a family researcher today understand life of their ancestors of another era. Yes, it is great to have images of our relatives, their hometown, their shop, home or farm, but it one should also see the bigger scene, the life-style overall. ...
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What could be a better gift than family photos?
Nov 8
What would grab first if your home caught fire? For many people, it would be the family photo albums. Photos make excellent gifts for the holidays because they are so special. One image holds an entire memory as well as a link to the past. Here are some ideas for incorporating family photos into meaningful gifts. Walgreens is one of many pl...
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ID A Photo
Oct 26
There you are going through the pile of vintage photos left by your parents and grandparents. Unfortunately no one took the time to label and identify who or what was the photo about. So you sort what you can label and still have a good number of images that you have no idea about. Was it from a trip taken by your grandparents, are the people dista...
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Brooklyn, NY Made Digital
Oct 22
Are you from Brooklyn, did you have relatives who lived or worked in Brooklyn, New York? Seeing it has been a large community for decades, it is very possible you do have one or more ancestors from Brooklyn. It is one of the five boroughs of New York City with a population now of about 2.5 million in a land area of about 71 square miles. With the ...
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Civil War Photos
Oct 12
The US Army Heritage & Education Center (USAHEC) has online a very unique collection of Civil War soldiers, regiments, in digital format. Since the goal of the USAHEC is to preserve the contribution of soldiers in America back to colonial times they made sure the Civil War collection was as complete as possible. There are new images added to t...
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Add and Share Family Photos and Stories
Oct 10
FamilySearch.org enhanced their site this year so individuals could submit their family photos. Within five months there were one million photos available for viewing along with family stories. All of the images and stories can be shared and stored for decades to come. To get started create a free account with your names and basic informati...
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Photo Collection from Australia
Sep 30
The Powerhouse Museum is located in Sydney, Australia. Here they have a large collection of all things, including photos with ties to the people and events of Australia. This online site features many of the photos from the Powerhouse Museum. They are grouped into 49 topics or sets. Some examples of topics include: daguerrotypes, studio photos, rur...