Many thanks. I'll put it up. Date forwarded: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:53:31 -0600 From: Praeda@aol.com Date sent: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:53:16 EDT Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Re: Website for finding photographers To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Send reply to: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > What a great idea!!! I think many of us have been in the sitution > where we have old photos and not much more information to go on. > > I've been combing through my home town directories and gazetteers for > info on photographers to see when they were in business to see if that > would help narrow the timeframe during which the photograph was taken. > I decided recently to put the analysis I've done on my website. It > only covers a very small geographical area compared to the world but > perhaps it will help someone else. I haven't put up all the info yet > (everything in my life seems to be a 'work in progress' <g>) but if > you want to add a link on your page to the photographers section of my > site, that would be great. > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tracefamilytree/locales/Kansa > s/Kansas > > .html#PHOTOGRAPHY > > Thanks for all your efforts, > Susie > _____________________________________________________ > S u s a n H a s t i n g s **** Surnames: H A S T I N G S ~ W E L L > S praeda@aol.com The "other" OZ, USA > > > > X-Message: #1 > > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:42:05 -0500 > > From: "Fraser Dunford" <fraser.dunford@sympatico.ca> > > To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers > > > > Last March I had indicated to the group that I would attempt to > > set up a website to reference other sites and books that would help > > in finding when and where a particular photographer worked. > > I now have that site, or at least the beginnings of it. It is a > > very > > large subject!! I put the site up yesterday and I would be happy to > > have group members comment on it. If many of you say "Yuk", I'll > > pull it. If many of you think it has the potential to be useful, > > then I'll > > > > get a decent URL for it and start promoting it. > > <http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- > > FindingPhotographers.htm>. That unfortunately is a two line URL. > > I'm still checking for broken links, but if you find any let me > > know. > > I'd appreciate other links that should go in. A few of you > > contributed links last spring but most of them came from a search > > using Google and many hours in the Toronto Reference Library. > > It is not my purpose to provide actual data on this site (I > > prefer to > > link to the sites with the data) however if any of you have small > > databases and no site, I do have some room. > > Comments please! > > > > ==== 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 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 >