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Family photo detective : learn how to find genealogy clues in old photos and solve family photo mysteries
- Title
- Family photo detective : learn how to find genealogy clues in old photos and solve family photo mysteries / Maureen A. Taylor.
- Author
- Taylor, Maureen Alice
- Publication
- Cincinnati, Ohio : Family Tree Books, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Taylor, Maureen Alice
- Description
- 173 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- "First edition published in 2000 and second edition published in 2005 as Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs." -- page 174.
- Contents
- 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
- TR147
- ISBN
- 9781440324987 (pbk.)
- 1440324980 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013454628
- OCLC
- 813860181
- Author
- Taylor, Maureen Alice, author.
- Title
- Family photo detective : learn how to find genealogy clues in old photos and solve family photo mysteries / Maureen A. Taylor.
- Publisher
- Cincinnati, Ohio : Family Tree Books, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Taylor, Maureen Alice, superceded by. Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs.
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG TR147 .T39 2013