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Description

1. 173 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

1. Historical family photos offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors, but the images-- and the stories behind them-- often fade away as decades pass. Taylor shows you how to study the clues in your old family photos to put names to faces and recapture their lost stories.

Subject

1. Genealogy
2. Photographs in genealogy

Contents

1. Introduction -- Bringing the past to life -- Talking with relatives -- Cased images: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes -- Paper prints and negatives -- Color and digital photographs -- Identifying the photographer -- Images from birth to death -- Looking for clues -- Identifying costume -- Reading the clues in photographs -- Photograph albums -- Adding up the clues.

Call number

1. TR147

Note

1. Includes index.
2. "First edition published in 2000 and second edition published in 2005 as Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs." -- page 174.

Author

1. Taylor, Maureen Alice, author.

Title

1. Family photo detective : learn how to find genealogy clues in old photos and solve family photo mysteries / Maureen A. Taylor.

Publisher

1. Cincinnati, Ohio : Family Tree Books, [2013]

Copyright date

1. ©2013

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Taylor, Maureen Alice, superceded by. Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs.

LCCN

1. 2013454628

ISBN

1. 9781440324987 (pbk.)
2. 1440324980 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. *R-USLHG TR147 .T39 2013