Welcome Page: Who is that? First of rule of Research: PROBLEM:

P. 2 Waiver..my experience only Depends on your exper/skills

Share with you some tips I use to ID old photos

Get as many as you can: the more clues they will reveal

Think about where you can get more. (Newspapers, google images, yearbooks, relatives, findagrave)

Ebay–perm search

Don't forget those SLIDES movies & videos..stills from

Become fam historian, take scanner to reunion, flip-pal) pencil

Who, when, where, who gave it to you, date, details

Remember you can RARELY be 100% pos. (Mother's cousin)

P. 3 TOOLS:

Get Organized

Family history Vital! Who is where in what generation! FG Sheets

Timelines, diaries, world events

Census records with addresses, esp house numbers and pics of houses, even address books.

Stories, personalities, physical features, hobbies, geography, landmarks

Knowledge of photography history*

Research ability for cars, clothing, etc. Google

LOGIC, Intuition

P. 4 Which side did pics come from?

WHY did someone keep them? Babies, What don't people keep? Mine

Scrapbooks: photocopy pages in order before taking apart Don't get them mixed up

(What are you going to do with them?)

P. 5 BEGIN ID process:

SCAN them in color at 600 TIF Can do groups together

Crop and enlarge on word processor large as possible, print

Group all out on DR table (don't try to do in one day)

Use friends' opinions, SEND them to your relatives. TAKE them to the reunion

PUT them on your facebook and Ancestry pages. Get the word out. Put queries on mailing lists/message boards about cousins.

P. 6 Charles: first one id'd go thru each If you have ONE that's labeled, start with that, add to it Build a photo timeline, can fit in others.

Sort into common groupings:

Look like? (Picasa photo ID)

Remind you of?

Whom are they with? Family?

Scenery?

Miscellaneous-don't fit anywhere

P. 7: Studio portrait: for a special occasion? Wedding, promotion, etc.

IDEAL: Ellen Higgins JOHNSTON (both sides)

PHOTO "Gramma Hope that you may have many returns of the day. Charlie Feb 8, 1880"

Gehrig Studios address Chicago

Ellen JohnsTON Perry

Look at fashion, features, hair style

Studio: cabinet card can research city directories for dates in business

Take face apart

beady eyes, caulif nose, widow's peak, cleft chin, cowlick, towhead, hairy knuckles,

Hair: color, curls, hairline W peak?

Brow height & slope Geico caveman brow

Eyebrows (easier with men or children)

eyes, lids, bags, uneven

nose, bridge, profile deviated septum?

between nose & lip distance: print out and draw lines

lips shape, teeth, braces

chin

dimples, warts, scars, wrinkles

ears, lobes, pierced, Anastasia

Height, weight, complexion (civil war medical exams)

PFA=Faces

P8 Rest of Photo: (Mother)

EVERY detail

clothing, compare to other photos, era

Jewelry (Gma nowlan)

background, cars, licenses, house numbers, house details, shrubbery, background buildings, etc. (sofa)

Clothes: Same day?

Animals

WHOSE handwriting?

P. 9 Ask yourself questions (Biglers)

WHY are they together? Occasion?

Who is taking the photo? Who is missing? Can explain uni'd people

This photo taken about 1912 check out groupings of body language

P. 10 BECOME FAMILIAR with the faces that you would know them instantly if you passed them on the street. Go over again and again, looking at every detail. FRAME

Make a list: Who is missing who was integral/talked about a lot in this person's life?

WHY are there no photos of them? WHO might have them? Cousins? Hist Soc?

P10a: Example: Fathers and sons: difficulties

p. 11: Totally unknown people: (Chas 1909)

Separate family/friends/associates also problematic: babies, elderly, twins, friends

cheeks become jowels, hair, noses&ears enlarge, hairline, eye fold, bags

P. 12: photocopy & write notes on, show to others, put away (Biglers)

12a: Ike & Cayleigh: google search "images" families philadelphia

12b: Charles and George: body language

12C-Morley? Cousins: timeline, ages? Live nearby?

12D-Unknown Roger: birth mark, uniforms, house number

12E-May on Ship: circ among cousins, not other Naval cousin, 2 possibilities, got photos of both

mothers from Hastings, others of him on ship search Google

12F-Filson boys: letter, Emma,

12G-Google images clothing	link

12H-Hunt house: painting, road name, template

12I-Toole fam: id,s, Ed Sr. left side

12J Howard's handwriting: Doherty, Becky

12K Gma Nowlan cameo

12L Summary

13-Enjoy