Good idea, Dave -- here's another one. I have a number of old photographs and several small painting of 19th C. relatives. I made color xeroxes of them (some of the smaller ones, I even had blown up) and sent them out to other relatives, asking for ID -- got an amazing number of them identifed, plus the recipients had, if not the greatest picture in the world, at least something they could tuck in the family album. Judy "David C. Allegretti" wrote: > Hello all, > > What I did with the old pictures of my family that I had no idea who they were...(They were in a DEEMS family album, from MD to NYC c1834). > > With a 35mm camera, tripod, & close up lens...I made pictures of the pictures. > > This gives you a negative with which I made copies and sent to relatives of that family. Those pictures I sent out went all over the US and some of the other family members were able to Identify some of them.. > > Don't forget that some of those pictures were used as "business cards" so-to-speak. When a person came-a callin' they would hand you a small picture of themselves as if to say remember I was here. > > Best of luck. > > Dave > > By the way...I'm searching GENTRY & HECTOR families from Salem. Gloucester, & Cumberland Co's., NJ