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From: "Maureen Taylor & Dexter Strong" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Genealogical Proof Standard for photographs
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:15:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: <144D3769.153C579F.0ABF2076@aol.com>


Congratulations on receiving the photos! You can learn a great deal
about your family from images depending on the amount of detail present
in each one, family information and photographer's imprint. There are
ways to compare facial characteristics to see if two different pictures
are of the same person.



Maureen Taylor
www.photodetective.com
www.taylorandstrong.com
Author of Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs and
Preserving Your Family Photographs (Betterway)

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Subject: [APG] Genealogical Proof Standard for photographs

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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