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Subject: [APG] Genealogical Proof Standard for photographs
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:56:46 -0500


Greetings, and happy new year!

I have just been (happily) electronically inundated with 35 old family photographs from a photo album kept by a far-too-distant cousin's family in Iowa. The few that are identified by name, I can properly place in families.

There are, however, two in this set of special interest to me. Both photographs were made in the ur-hometown in Indiana, one a carte de visite, and which image is of, I am convinced, our ever-so-great-grandmother.

The second is of a family group including an adult couple and a late-adolescent male, whom I take to be their son. Comparing that young man with the known photographs I have of my own ancestor, I am convinced that this younger man is my great-great-grandfather, in a group picture with his parents, ca. 1860, when they left Indiana for Iowa. (Of whom no known photograph exists....)

I can combine provenance of the photo album, common physical characteristics (ears, nose and chin) for the younger man and my great-great-grandfather, appropriate locations for the images and the known whereabouts of my ancestor.

Does anyone have any comments, suggestions or ideas? Or is this simply barking up a hollow tree?

Cheers--and thanks!
Dave McDonald
in Wisconsin

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