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Ancestry Quick Tip Jamboree: Identifying People in Old Photos Identifying Digital Photos On all photos in my genealogy collection, I scan the photos and use Jasc Paint Shop Pro (other software will work) to add text to the bottom of each digital photo. I add names, dates, locations, what's written on the back of the photo, or anything pertinent on the bottom of the photo. You can change the text color to white on dark photos. Or if you have a lot of typing, I make a rectangular box, fill it with white paint, and type the words in the box. For family reunion photos, I scan the photo, put the generic text at the bottom (1944 Riggs family reunion), then save it (Riggs 1944 reunion.jpg). The I type the name of the person right on the chest of the person, or above the person, and once all the people are named, save the file with a new but similar name (Riggs 1944 reunion names.jpg). That way if I find new information and some of the names are wrong, I can start over with the no-names photo, and add the names again. Thanks, Patty Delmott Identify People by Number Here's a variant of Sally Kramer's Quick Tip in the July 3rd Ancestry Daily News in which she described a method of identifying the subjects in a group photo. Instead of drawing heads by hand, you can use a photo-editor to adjust the image whose subjects you want to identify. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, v. 2 (APE2), but the following directions are sufficiently general that they ought to work in other photo-editors. Save a copy of the original photo. If it's a color photograph, remove the color from it. (In APE2, choose Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color.) Then decrease the contrast and increase the brightness until the photo consists of light, flat, gray tones. (In APE2, choose Enhance > Adjust Brightness/Contrast > Brightness/Contrast...) Then use a Text tool (the Type tool in APE2) to superimpose a black number on each individual in the gray image. (You may have to set the text color, and the font style, family, and size before inserting the first numeral.) Print the resulting image on the top part of a sheet of paper, and distribute copies to each person you want to query. With a few copies of the original image handy, the grayed, numbered image makes it easy for friends and family members to respond to your request for help. Bruce King New Milford, CT Photocopy the Picture In large group pictures, you can take a photocopy of the picture and using the copy, number each of the people. Then, on a separate piece of paper, write all the numbers, filling in all names and information about the photograph as you know it. Then let other family or friends fill in the blanks. This works great for me, and I keep the copy with my family tree folio. You could also make copies to send to distant relatives for their input. Mike Hollis Look at Angles for Faint Writing I have had a set of photos of my "Great-great-great" relatives for over five years. I did not know who they were. There appeared to be nothing on the back or the front identifying them. Last weekend I was going through some old papers and these 1880s photos slipped out of the cover I store them in. By a trick of the angle of light I saw on the back of one "Great-Grandmother Cashel, Grandmother Cashel and a Great-Aunt" written very faintly in pencil by my father's sister, Aunt Doris. I looked at the backs of the three other photos at the same angle to the light and lo and behold-there were the names of those people! The lesson here is, do not always look at photos straight on. Try various angles of light; you may be surprised and delighted (as I was) by what you find. Pat Almond Family Reunion Photo Pre-Identified At your next family reunion, before you take a group photo give each person an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of stiff white paper. Each paper is numbered with a large black number from 1 to whatever number of people there are present. Have each member write their full name, address, phone, email, and which branch/part of the family they are related to. Arrange everyone for the photo with everyone holding their number just under their face. Make sure the photographer can clearly see each number. Take a shot. Then have everyone lower their number and take another shot in the same position. Afterward, you can easily match up faces with names and you have the information for a master list of all who attended the reunion. Janet Wolf Enlarge Photos For those who have family photos which are small, especially group photos, take them to your local office supply store, or where you get you photos done, and have an enlargement made. Sometime back I took a photo from a family reunion and had it blown up, and once enlarged I was surprised to find my great grandmother, grandmother, and even my father as a small boy, in the photo. The small size of the original had kept me (and my older relatives) from identifying people. The enlargement made it possible to identify nearly all of them. Judy Germann

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Hello All: I know that this is an off topic subject for these lists but I am going to take my lumps and put it here for all to see. I received the following from a friend and thought it should be passed on to everyone, everywhere as it is a worthy cause. " We need those of you who are great at forwarding on information with your e-mail network. Please read and pass this on. It would be wonderful if 2003 were the year a cure for breast cancer was found!!!! This is one e-mail you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful!! As you may be aware, the US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamps to help fund breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $7.40. This one is only $8.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care. I would urge you to do two things today: 1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps. 2. E-mail your friends to do the same. We all know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer. It takes so little to do so much in this drive. I think we can all afford the 60 cents. Please help and pass it on." Jim Bogard

Ancestry Quick Tip My family spent almost ninety years in the same city. The obituary for my great grandfather only listed his death in one paper, and listed his children in the other newspaper. I figured I was at a dead end. But then I looked at the listings the local library provided and realized there was one more paper that was published at that time, and they had it microfilmed. Sure enough, when I checked the third local paper, I found three brothers and two sisters listed as surviving him, and one of the brothers was living in the same city. Just remember that different papers will give you different information, so check them all. Chris Barbera Hubbardston, Mass. Thanks to Chris for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to share with researchers, you can send it to: ADNeditor@ancestry.com

At 03:00 AM 6/27/2003 -0600, ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 171 > > > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:02:04 -0700 >From: "Doris Mathis" <doris40@aeroinc.net> >To: ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <009101c33c36$fca9e8c0$b2cd940c@oemcomputer> >Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Genealogy - Ancestry Quick Tip 6-26-03 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Ancestry Quick Tip > >I have cut up tracing paper about the size of a 3 x 5 card and put it in a >letter size envelope and carry it with me at all times to trace words or >letters I can't make out right then and study them later. Seems to work for me. >Doris Williams > > >Thanks to Doris for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to >share with researchers, you can send it to: ADNeditor@ancestry.com I love your tip. I have used tracing paper in a lot of "projects" and never thought of this. Big thank you for sharing. On old tombstones that are hard to read I use a spray bottle with plain WATER. Spray the lettering and let the stone itself dry this will leave water in the depressions. The water will highlight the letters and make it a little easier to read. No harm is done to the stones. Kay in Missouri

Thank you for sharing. I did it already. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris Mathis" <doris40@aeroinc.net> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:02 PM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Genealogy - Ancestry Quick Tip 6-26-03 > Ancestry Quick Tip > > I have cut up tracing paper about the size of a 3 x 5 card and put it in a letter size envelope and carry it with me at all times to trace words or letters I can't make out right then and study them later. Seems to work for me. > Doris Williams > > > Thanks to Doris for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to share with researchers, you can send it to: ADNeditor@ancestry.com > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM LIST MODE: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Ancestry Quick Tip I have cut up tracing paper about the size of a 3 x 5 card and put it in a letter size envelope and carry it with me at all times to trace words or letters I can't make out right then and study them later. Seems to work for me. Doris Williams Thanks to Doris for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to share with researchers, you can send it to: ADNeditor@ancestry.com

I can not imagine this list, ever being boring, or going belly up. Have been on this list for some time now and not a week goes by, that there isn't something, that either helps me or that I understand better from the way it is explained,,,,,,,,,,,thank you and don't give up on us,,,,,,,,,,we're here,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lillian

Lillian and all, Years ago, a smart genealogist told me that anything can be wrong, when it comes to searching for ancestors. Anything at all. That proves itself over and over in my searches. I know my parents are my parents because I look like them and have all their worst traits. My dad looks like his dad, and his mother says she gave birth to him. She seems to have been a witness. Otherwise, what can we really "prove?" Sharon

lillian chastain wrote: > Some years back I sent for birth cert. for some of my children, they needed them for job and other such things, when they came back, it stated I was born in E. Chicago ,,Ill,,,,,,,,,,,,not In.Everything I have prior to that time says E. Chicago In.............so how do we trust even those....just a point of view............thank you all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lillian > > > You're absolutely right, Lillian. Society in general is moving faster and faster in a direction of accepting mediocre standards (or worse) in everything in our lives, so much so that it's getting harder and harder to trust even official certified records. We can only do our best to (1) always be aware of the problem; (2) document our information from multiple independent sources (that do not possibly get their information from each other); (3) don't accept mediocrity unless we really have no choice; (4) try to get an error fixed at the source when we encounter one and are able to do so; (5) fully document all the facts we find with multiple sources, including the wrong ones, so it's clear *how* we arrived at our final conclusions; and (6) maintain high standards for ourselves, so as not to add to the problem. If you have good reason to doubt the accuracy of information on a certificate you get, most vital statistics offices will double-check the information you received, while you wait on hold, if you just telephone and explain your question. The issuing clerk *may* have simply made a mistake when filling in the form to be sent to you, in which case you have every right to expect an accurate certificate to be sent upon return of the inaccurate one. You *paid* for a document *certified* to be accurate *according to the official record*. You have every right to get what you paid for, but that doesn't go as far as getting them to put something on the certificate that isn't actually in the record already. The advance phone call for verification avoids wasted time sending a document back for correction when the mistake is actually in the original record...something that isn't so easily changed. Because records clerks can only certify what is in the actual record, most vital statistics offices have specific guidelines and fees for correcting that information in the original records, depending on how long ago that record was made. The closer you are to the date of the original event, and the more reliable a witness you are as to the facts involved (i.e., a party to the original record), the easier and less costly it is to fix the record. This is why it is always a good idea to get a copy of any official record to which you are a party right after that record is made, to see that the info put on record is correct. Some states automatically send a copy of a birth certificate to the new mother when the record is first made, specifically advising her to check the information and report errors within so many days (usually for free within that time, but nevertheless possibly requiring some other proof or confirmation). Unfortunately, recipients of incorrect records may not notice or care about a mistake at the time; and some states don't even send out that first certificate until or unless someone sends a standard request and the fee; so an error actually made by a vital statistics clerk, a hospital clerk, or some other person along the way in the making of the original record may not be detected until 20 or more years later, making it much more difficult and costly to confirm the correct facts and correct the record. The obvious questions by the clerk 20+ years after a record was originally made are "How do we know that it's really wrong and what the real facts are?" "Why didn't someone raise a question about it sooner if it's wrong?" If you can't satisfactorily answer at least these questions, you won't get it changed. If you can't get a primary record corrected, then the obvious thing to do in your genealogy research is to compile as much documentation as possible of the accurate facts from other sources, and to fully document those sources, as well as an explanation of the incorrect information. If you only include the correct information as you know it in your records (as many people and programs do), when the incorrect information is brought up years after you aren't around to explain everything, the person reviewing your research and then coming across those primary documents is likely to judge that you were wrong or sloppy in drawing your conclusions and go with the information in the primary documents. Diane

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