Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photograph

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 929.1072 EAN: 9781558707245 ISBN: 1558707247 Label: Family Tree Books Manufacturer: Family Tree Books Number Of Items: 3 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2005-06-24 Publisher: Family Tree Books Studio: Family Tree Books
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Editorial Reviews: In this visually stunning book of historic family photographs, renown family-history photography expert Maureen A. Taylor shows genealogists, scrapbookers, and history enthusiasts how to cherish old photographs and what clues they provide on ancestors' lives. Readers will learn how to: -Identify and verify people in family photographs -Tell the story of identified photographs using the clues in the images -Locate additional family photographs -Create worksheets for each image to expand their knowledge about their ancestors This improved revised edition, full of color photographs, is sure to be instructive and inviting to readers looking to learn more about their family photos and history.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great resource Comment: I found this book to be an excellent resource in my quest to date and place old family photos. I have been researching family history and in the process have gotten many clues from old photos. This book is a great resorce to help interpret what a photo is telling you. I will keep this as a resource in my genealogy library. Customer Rating: Summary: The Best for Photograph Dating Comment: This is an excellent "textbook" for anyone who is getting into dating old photographs. Taylor gives very thorough and accurate information on photography processes and the types of photographs to be found in old collections. The section on identifying costume is especially fine, although it is just a beginning for learning how to determine age by the clothing being worn. The worksheets provided at the end of the book are especially helpful. All in all, if you are only going to buy one book on this subject, this is the book for you! Customer Rating: Summary: Family Photos Comment: Glad to find this book, Maureen Taylor does an excellent job of identifying old photos and this book helps you do it yourself. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Book Comment: This book helped immensely in trying to identify individuals. I was able to date the photograph and put a name to a face. Customer Rating: Summary: A real help to genealogists! Comment: This book has great value to the genealogist. When confronted with unidentified photographs, we often despair of ever identifying the subjects. This book offers real assistance with this. Author Maureen Taylor offers detailed information on using clues in photographs themselves to identify their subjects. One example on pages 42-43 shows a street scene in Providence, Rhode Island. Since the photo contains telephone lines, research can place the image after 1881, the year telephone service was introduced there. The date can be even more precisely determined by other internal details of the photo. The book's appendices include a "Timeline of Photographic History" and an excellent bibliography of sources. More Reviews