Death Photography: Is it For Real?
There's no shortage of creepy postmortem photography on the web. But are those images the real thing? Here's a bit of history to separate fact from fiction.
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Tintype Photos: Best of Photo Detective
Photo Detective was a long-running FamilyTreeMagazine.com blog. Here, we've combined the best posts about tintype photos.
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Family Photo Book Project Worksheets Free Downloads
These two worksheets are designed to assist you create and organize old family photos for your projects.
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A Pair of Photo Mysteries: Charcoal-Enhanced 1840s Portraits
Darlene Sampley isn't sure who the young woman is in the painted tintype featured in last week's column, but she working on figuring out the mystery. But that tintype isn't the only problem photo in Darlene's collection. This week it's a pair of portraits, of a mysterious man and woman...
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Family History Month: Focus on One Old Photo Collection
Thank you Darlene Sampley! I met Darlene last month in San Diego at an all-day seminar for the San Diego Genealogical Society. We started talking about her family photo collection and I started thinking about Family History Month, which genealogists traditionally observe in October. Hmm. Wouldn't it be...
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Wavy Hair in Your Family Photos
Last week, I wrote about how "radium perms" gave our ancestors' hair smooth curls. Two readers sent me pictures of their female ancestors with wavy hair. Whether permed or created with a curling iron, these female ancestors ended up with lovely 'dos. Sharon Haskin Galitz sent in a 1928 graduation...
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Toxic Hairstyles in Old Family Photos
What's the weirdest thing you've ever done to your hair? Bad hair happens to everyone unless your hair is too short to go astray. You know what I'm talking about. Generations of women (and men) have spent money on preparations to make their hair conform to the latest...
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Old School Photos: Best of Photo Detective
It’s a good thing many families documented school days in pictures. Those photographs tell the story of your ancestor’s education. Here’s an assortment of past Photo Detective blog posts featuring students and teachers.
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Figuring out Where an Old Family Photo Was Taken
Laura Katz knows that this is picture of her paternal great-grandparents Baruch and Asna Lipitz. They immigrated from Russia in 1906, and Laura wonders if this picture was taken there or in the United States. Comparing the date the photo was taken to the date of the couple's immigration should...
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Family Photo Project Ideas
Don't keep family photos to yourself! Try these fun family photo projects to proudly show off your pictures.
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