I've had excellent results from taking pictures of pictures--frame and all. Just take them from a few different angles and try not to stand directly in front of the photo (sometimes the flash will reflect in the glass.) By the way, which relatives are in there? I know we're related on the Ward and Preston sides.... Candy Parent Tazewell County, VAGenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~vatazewe Candy's Clan http://www.htonline.com/~candy candy@htonline.com -----Original Message----- From: Gloria (Rose) Gialdella <gloriag@iwaynet.net> To: KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com <KYPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [KYPIKE-L] New Salem Assn. Minutes, 1825- >There are a lot of my relatives hanging in the church. The clerk told me I could come in and take >photos of them but I don't know how they will do, taking pictures of pictures. > > > >Jonah May wrote: >> >> Jim Tackitt wrote;; >> >> Baptist >> >churches also have numerous photos of deceased members hanging on the >> >walls. In at least one church I'm familiar with, there is a photo of one >> >old member/Elder born as early as 1823/24 - but most are of more recent >> >date. >> > >> >Jim W. Tackitt, 1830 Johnson Dr., Concord, CA 94520; <jtackitt@jps.net> >> > >> >> Jim, >> You are right about the set of books being very informative about the >> people of this area. >> I know of one of the Primitive Baptist Church's that has a picture of >> John Varney born about 1814-17 and William Jefferson (Preacher Jeff) >> May born 1836, this is at McAndrews in Pike County, and several of the >> Old Regular Baptist Church's has very old pictures. Glad you thought of >> the pictures, maybe that will help someone find their ancestor. >> Jonah >> >> BTW - I have much information on John Varney and William Jefferson May >> if anyone connects to them. >> >> ==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> ...........................PIKE MAILING LIST........................... >> Our PikeList is sponsored by the RootsWeb Data Genealogical Cooperative >> "ROOTSWEB" is funded entirely by you the genealogical community. To be >> informed how you can support these and other internet genealogy through >> RootsWeb why not go ahead and visit their site right now and learn how. >> .......http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html.......... >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >-- >Gloria Rose > >Old Regular Baptist Church Minutes Obituaries: >http://www.angelfire.com/ky/Obituaries >Pike County Archives: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/pike/toc.html > >Diggin' in - KY, VA & NC >"ROSE"/"FLEMING"/"WARD"/"RATLIFF"/"BENTLEY"/"BOLLING " >"FLETCHER"/"COLE"/"BARTLEY"/"SWINEY"/"CASTLE" > > >==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >...........................PIKE MAAILING LIST.......................... >Please do not send attached files to our list. Some older systems will >not handle or process them. You're encouraged to privately exchange OK >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > >