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From: "Chad Milliner" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Genealogical Proof Standard for photographs
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:21:10 -0700
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Do the photographs identify the name of the photographer or studio that took
the picture? If so, then perhaps you should enquire at the appropriate
archives in the state in which that photographer/studio was located to
determine whether any of the archives has accessioned the business records
of that firm/person. Many photographers kept log books that list all of the
photographs they took and who was responsible for payment thereof.

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> Subject: [APG] Genealogical Proof Standard for photographs
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> 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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