Charlotte, Before you dispose of your photos and tintypes, give some serious thought to scanning them at a fairly high resolution (300 dpi tiff images at least) and cataloguing them with the minimal data that you do have about them. That would be your name, where you lived when you first obtained them, who you got them from, the year you got them, where you think they might have been taken, and a list of the family names that comprise the potential pool from which the individuals may have come. If you think they came from a town far away, record that possibility in their documentation. Anything is a clue when you are looking for a link to family. Even if all you do is give them to some repository such as suggested by others, once you have them digitized you may be surprised to see what information may be found in the photos when you blow them up in a good photo editing program. When they are in a digital format they can be submitted to one of the several web sites that specialize in displaying old photos for possible identification. Just because you don't know who they are doesn't necessarily mean that someone else may not know. You are the last one who has the information that you do have, so try to organize it and pass it on if at all possible. There may be someone out there just waiting to get a look at them. Carol Boggs ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com