On 6 Mar 2010 at 7:16, Barbara Millar wrote: > > Could someone help me date a series of photographs that I > have - the men all have outer jackets that have one single > button closing just below the tie. > > In another photo the men have beards that only along the jaw > line the rest of the face is clean shaven. > Barbara See http://olivetreegenealogy.com/LostFaces/ for help dating old photographs. There are many clues you can use besides clothing. In fact dating men's clothing is extremely difficult, but other clues such as size of photo, photographer's mark on the verso (back) etc can indicate timeframes You can identify ancestor photos by understanding the Types of Early Photographs and during what time period each was used. http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/photo-types.shtml will get you started. Lorine -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/LorineMS * Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ [email protected] or [email protected]