This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5MZ.2ACEB/1091 Message Board Post: At an antique fair, I found a tintype photo album with the name "Sarah Goff" written on the front page (on a line reserved for the owner). Unfortunately the "index page" was blank - no names associated with the photos. However, there are 18 tintype photos included in the album, all in very good condition. The photos are of various people of varying ages, children and adults. The album is from Miller & Burlock, Philadelphia. After quick research, I found them to be in Phila. c1880s, perhaps the decades before and after, as well. The "title page" says, "The Photographic Album." Tintypes were first introduced in the 1850s, were popular through the Civil War and continued until around the turn of the century, though by 1890, there were other photo printing processes used. My best guess is that these photos were made c1870s-1890s. They are all of photo studio quality, not the "quick set up" variety. If you are interested in the album, the antique dealer is located north of Houston, TX Corliss & Gordy Lentz Gordy's Antiques 281-298-7134 115 Split Rock Rd. Spring, TX 77381 [email protected] They were asking $85, which by antique standards, is a basement bottom asking price. I am not a Goff descendant; I have no connection with this antique store or the Lentz owners in any way. I am simply an amateur genealogist who came across this photo album and wanted to pass along the information in hopes that, one day, someone else will pass on information, similarly, that will help someone else, regardless of surname connections. Good luck and God bless our searches! Joyce Zachman