Could anyone direct me on how I would go about in searching for the wherabouts of a studio by what's on the back of old photo's? Have lots and need help with people and places1 thanks!

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I have a studio postcard photo of an uncle taken in 1909. The edges and shadow areas of the photo are turning a dull, bluish color. When scanning the areas are very blue. Any suggestion is how to eliminate or filter out the bluish color? I use Adobe and PhotoImpact. Any idea what this type of photo/print this might be? I have a few similar photos, but they have turned black or gray rather than blue. Thanks, George

I am writing an article about how family photographs have led to new genealogical discoveries. If you have a story about successfully identifying a family photograph or about how a picture helped your family research, I'd love to hear about it. Please respond directly to my email at mtaylor@taylorandstrong.com Thank you for your help! Maureen Taylor www.taylorandstrong.com <http://www.taylorandstrong.com/>

UNSUSCRIBE ----- Original Message ----- From: <g.ruppert@att.net> To: <VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Baltimore City 19th Cent Photos > Hi Folks! > > January was a very busy month for new photos on > Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos. Here are some > of the surnames listed: > > Belt, Gallagher, Loving, Perry, Moore, Salvini, Stehl, > Wigginton, Wilson > > Some of the stories are really neat! For instance, the > Stehl photos from a 19th-century Baltimore Studio were > found in a European shop, bought by a Spanish > genealogist and offered on e-bay where a Californian > headed them back home! > > Our first twins have arrived and are found on the > Gallagher page. > > A couple more medical connections have turned up with Dr > Moore, the Stehls (pharmacist) and Dr Belt. > > Maud Salvini turns out to have been a NY stage actress > whose husband was in silent pictures ... > > There are lots more stories. Please take a look and > enjoy some of these terrific photos from 19th-Century > Baltimore Studios. > > If you're new to the list, the Baltimore City Photo site > is dedicated to **identified** 19th century photos by > Baltimore Studios or of Baltimore residents or scenes. > Join in the ever growing number of submitters who are > making this site popular. > > http://freepages.hobbies.rootsweb.com/~ruppert/ > > THANKS! > > Gary > 2 February 2002 > Baltimore > http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert > > > ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== > We have over 223 members of the Vintage-Photos Mailing List. Posting back > to the list helps the whole group, not just one person. If we work as a team, > we'll succeed as a team. > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > 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 > >

My grandmother was never able to identify her three uncles who were close to the same age so I just keep them in the scrapbook for the parents. One of my e-mail contacts confessed that she had unidentified pictures of her own children who happened to look alike when they were small. A second child was rarely photographed alone in our family. One fun chart is to print two or three pictures of each person baby, adult and middle age. A proud new father took a chart off to work one day and was asked why the baby's picture was taken in black and white. It was his own baby picture. Some genealogy programs are limited to one selected picture per person and takes too long to switch from Picture 1 to Picture 2 to Picture 3. FTM allows 22 mb free space for pictures using a recent version but they are in random order. An uploaded file can have one automatic picture for each person and marriage and multiple reports in an online book. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- > scanned and posted a "mystery photo of the month" > to let my relatives guess who they may be. I > don't always get a response, but occasionally > someone comes up with an answer. It makes for > good conversation in cyberspace with my extended > family. Give it a try, it is free, but space is > limited. I just rotate my photos out so that I > don't go over my free space. > Karen

Diane, What a great "inheritance". I too have many old photos of my grandmother and great grandparents generation. I have a website through "MyFamily" (www.myfamily.com) that I have scanned and posted a "mystery photo of the month" to let my relatives guess who they may be. I don't always get a response, but occasionally someone comes up with an answer. It makes for good conversation in cyberspace with my extended family. Give it a try, it is free, but space is limited. I just rotate my photos out so that I don't go over my free space. Karen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Hi Folks! January was a very busy month for new photos on Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos. Here are some of the surnames listed: Belt, Gallagher, Loving, Perry, Moore, Salvini, Stehl, Wigginton, Wilson Some of the stories are really neat! For instance, the Stehl photos from a 19th-century Baltimore Studio were found in a European shop, bought by a Spanish genealogist and offered on e-bay where a Californian headed them back home! Our first twins have arrived and are found on the Gallagher page. A couple more medical connections have turned up with Dr Moore, the Stehls (pharmacist) and Dr Belt. Maud Salvini turns out to have been a NY stage actress whose husband was in silent pictures ... There are lots more stories. Please take a look and enjoy some of these terrific photos from 19th-Century Baltimore Studios. If you're new to the list, the Baltimore City Photo site is dedicated to **identified** 19th century photos by Baltimore Studios or of Baltimore residents or scenes. Join in the ever growing number of submitters who are making this site popular. http://freepages.hobbies.rootsweb.com/~ruppert/ THANKS! Gary 2 February 2002 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert

Hi ! ,, wanted you to know that I have uploaded a couple "new" old School Yearbooks to Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive http://www.deadfred.com They are -1912 *Grinnellian * Grinnell High School , Grinnell, Iowa Keyword GH -1926 Hackley School , Tarrytown, NY Keyword : HACKLEY -1904 *Pandora* Washington & Jefferson College ,Washington,Pa Keyworrd WJ To see all the pictures & records that have been entered from the YearBooks type the Keyword the in the photographers slot in “Detailed Search” To browse the yearbooks click on on the first letter in the Schools name in the Alphabet List and scroll down to the yearbook .For close up scans or additional information regarding of any of these images email me, To see a list of all the yearbooks uploaded to date go to http://deadfred.com/photos/14178.jpg Regards Joe Bott DeadFred.com

We are lucky to have a complete set of eight generations of pictures from the first couple who landed in New York July 1827 to a child born 1999. The favorite chart of the direct line is printed using Family Tree Maker. Another option for a more rectangular chart is direct descendants plus siblings. A full descendant chart is too wide with large families. Another option is to print three pictures per person showing child, adult and middle age pictures OR any three favorites. People without pictures available can have a flower or occupation-related clip art image to make them easier to find in large charts. Elizabeth

Hi Dianne, Wow, you are lucky to have so many photos! Here are some suggestions on getting them identified. First if you have any elderly relatives around, make a point to go see them NOW with the suitcase in hand, and see which photos they can tell you about, if any. If some pictures are too tiny for an old person to see, blow them up on a scanner or copy machine before you go, and leave them some copies. This is your best bet. They may even share other photos with you and you may be able to recognize people from those in yours. (Be sure to copy and return theirs, I have found many are very sensitive on this.) Another possibility is to visit anyone still living who was a long time friend or neighbor (or child thereof), fellow club member, etc. of the person you inherited the photos from. He or she was likely involved in your relative's life and family comings and goings to the extent of being able to recognize some of the relatives or at least who they might be. This knowledge dies with them, so don't wait. At the same time, start on the written family history, so you have a clear idea of the names and life dates and locations of your people, so you will know what is possible as to who might be in the photos. Get a book on dating photos by the clothes & type of photo. Start contacting all your distant relatives for help with that and the pictures together. You will be surprised how much others may know, and will be willing to help you, even if you never solve ALL of the mystery photos. Also post family information to the message boards and ask for help and offer to share the photos. You may not get an instant reply but you will eventually find someone else who is researching that line who may have helpful clues or better for you. Don't toss any of those photos, even if you think you will never find out--you never know when someone else will come with a piece of the puzzle. Some very old ones may also be valuable. If you eventually don't want them make sure they get to someone who does, or at least some historical society in the area they are from, if nothing else, together with as much information as you know. Through a message board, I recently made contact with a very distant cousin I had never heard of. Her direct ancestor was a sister to my great-great-great grandmother, and she had a picture of not only of her relative and a book of reminiscences written by her, but also photos of my great-great-grandparents and several of the children, who had been mystery names to us in the old 1800s family plot at the little country cemetery. I shared some photos from my line and we both still have some mystery photos we hope to figure out in the future as we find and share new clues. Seeing these resemblance's may help. It also may help you to post the images on Ancient Faces or Dead Fred in case anyone can help you, but without some family names to anchor it it will be tough for anyone to even know to look there. Good luck--you have a treasure there. --------Pam Berger McGeesGirl@aol.com wrote: > Hi : > My name is Dianne,Im new to the list and I need to know exactly what to > expect?I inherited 3 suitcases of old/tintypes/postcard types > one picture on glass family photos,most of which have no names on the > backs.Id like to identify not only the time and types but the people in the > photos,most are from Indiana. > Any suggestions on how/where to start ? > Can I send pics as Jpegs to the list or do I do that if an individual requests > Thanks for any suggestions,Dianne > > ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== > List problems? Contact the Vintage-Photos -List Mom kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > Use Kathleen as the subject line for your post > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > 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

Thank You Doris The most amazing event to date for me was ,Ive had all of these unidentified pics for a long time , Then little by little Ive met distant cousins,who had the same unidentified pics but they didnt know who they had either,for instance My great aunt with a man,they had an uncle with a unidentified women , come to find out it was my Great aunt with their great uncle , first cousins ! that was a major turn around for my genealogy Thanks Dianne

Hi Dianne, What a lucky person you are to have received such a gift. I would dearly love to have pictures of my ancesters.........especially one of my grandfather Andrew Sias. Oh well, maybe I'll get lucky one of these days and a copy will turn up for me. Here are a couple URL's that you can check out to see if either place would be of any help to you. Good luck. Ancient Faces http://www.ancientfaces.com/cgi-bin/index.cfm Cyndis List http://www.cyindislist.com/photos.htm Doris in NW IL Hi : My name is Dianne,Im new to the list and I need to know exactly what to expect?I inherited 3 suitcases of old/tintypes/postcard types one picture on glass family photos,most of which have no names on the backs.Id like to identify not only the time and types but the people in the photos,most are from Indiana. Any suggestions on how/where to start ? Can I send pics as Jpegs to the list or do I do that if an individual requests Thanks for any suggestions,Dianne

Dianne, Three suitcases full -- oh my! A number of years ago I received a large box of photos that had belonged to my grandmother. Most had no name or location. However, when I was a child, she would use the photos to tell me stories of her parents, grandparents and assorted relatives, so I knew who about a third were. I used that knowledge to help ID about another third and sent copies to her cousin and her sister to help with the rest. It is a long process, but using the imprint of the studio and matching up that location with knowledge of where extended family lived helps narrow the search. Also studying the clothes and props help to narrow the time period. After learning as much as you can from the photos, you might try posting on some surname and location list and web sites. Good Luck! TWC

Hi : My name is Dianne,Im new to the list and I need to know exactly what to expect?I inherited 3 suitcases of old/tintypes/postcard types one picture on glass family photos,most of which have no names on the backs.Id like to identify not only the time and types but the people in the photos,most are from Indiana. Any suggestions on how/where to start ? Can I send pics as Jpegs to the list or do I do that if an individual requests Thanks for any suggestions,Dianne

Scroll down. > > > > In a message dated 1/21/02 6:13:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, > > PattrickColin@aol.com writes: > > > > > I am after purchasing a Photo Software Program that:- > > > > > > Opens & stores 'jpeg' files as a default. > > > That will Crop Photos > > > That will add Text to the Photo > > > & that I can get a Database within the Software to describe the Photo > > > This database must be searchable > > > > > > Suggestions Welcome > > > > > > Regards Colin Pattrick > > > > Adobe Photoshop! > > > > Jim > > Where's the searchable database within Adobe? Have I missed something all > these years? Perhaps I am not understanding, the complexity of this database, but for a database of photos you can use Photoshop to embed data in the image, you can make virtual contact sheets (thumbnails) which as far as my instructor told us is searchable to the embedded info. To be honest I do not use this as I do not add text to photos, I use a great free program for filing purposes, cropping, resampling, embedding info, thumbnails etc. download at http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/english.htm excellent program! I use Photoshop for more complex image processing. I also use Corel Draw, Arcsoft Photo, Beausoft Imager, Viewprint, JPEG Optimizer and a host of other programs, each does some things better or easier than the other. Incidentally Viewprint will convert all the image files on your computer to thumbnail icons so you do not have to remember what DCF0002589.jpg is, you can actually see that it is cousin Hamish in his kilt! Jim.

In a message dated 1/21/02 6:13:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, PattrickColin@aol.com writes: > I am after purchasing a Photo Software Program that:- > > Opens & stores 'jpeg' files as a default. > That will Crop Photos > That will add Text to the Photo > & that I can get a Database within the Software to describe the Photo > This database must be searchable > > Suggestions Welcome > > Regards Colin Pattrick Adobe Photoshop! Jim

> -----Original Message----- > From: Kernow62@aol.com [mailto:Kernow62@aol.com] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:25 AM > To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Help Wanted > > > In a message dated 1/21/02 6:13:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, > PattrickColin@aol.com writes: > > > I am after purchasing a Photo Software Program that:- > > > > Opens & stores 'jpeg' files as a default. > > That will Crop Photos > > That will add Text to the Photo > > & that I can get a Database within the Software to describe the Photo > > This database must be searchable > > > > Suggestions Welcome > > > > Regards Colin Pattrick > > Adobe Photoshop! > > Jim Where's the searchable database within Adobe? Have I missed something all these years? Jen

I am after purchasing a Photo Software Program that:- Opens & stores 'jpeg' files as a default. That will Crop Photos That will add Text to the Photo & that I can get a Database within the Software to describe the Photo This database must be searchable Suggestions Welcome Regards Colin Pattrick

Thank you, Elizabeth, for your quick help! You were asking how I was planning to use the images. First of I would like to digitize all the old, mostly b&w familiy pictures I have. From what I understand from this list, this would mean an "archival size copy" of each in the best possible quality. Since .jpg format loses quality every time it is saved, I should go with the .tif format, correct? Of course other & future uses would include reports, family history book(s), website, e-mail etc. For those, if I am reading your mail correctly, I would scan the pictures in .jpg format (which I have been doing anyway for several years). So, when you are saying to plan on having organized sets, what do you mean by that? Different file formats at different resolutions for each picture? What do you see as the best way to do this? Do you scan all these different formats/resolutions at once, or at the time you need a particular picture, i.e. do you later go back to your original and scan it again at the setting you need? I am asking this because scanning each and every picture several times, including cropped versions could quickly make this a question of space. I also noticed from your posts here that you put great emphasis on backup copies (so do I!). I was just wondering how you organize your backups, i.e do you use more than one backup file for each original? I assume you are mainly using CDs as medium? Thanks again for all your help. Irene -----Original Message----- From: E.Rodier [mailto:cerear@telusplanet.net] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 3:31 PM To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Difference in tif Formats How do you plan to *use* the images? Try a full project scanning pictures, adding to a family book report or web page, adding details about the pictures to the files and reprinting or update a web page. My largest single word processor file has 50 images and largest family database in FTM has 750 inserted pictures. Usually save JPG images of family pictures scanned to the size for a specific purpose. Uncompressed TIF images are large files if you need to share attachments to e-mails. My favorite image software doesn't refer to Group 4. Uncompressed TIF images are sometimes more efficient than high quality JPG for source documents with limited colors. Some genealogy programs allow uncompressed TIF and some don't allow TIF at all. One archival size copy of each image is not enough. Plan organized sets of images that can be backed up as the organization changes over time and newer copies of backups sets are stored in remote locations. Elizabeth