Also searching hairstyles can help to date a photo. I live in Eastern Kentucky, which is sometimes difficult to travel throughout history, but also we have a lot of people who were very poor. Historically, we got a lot of trends, etc, 20 years after they were popular. It was quite common to pass clothing down, therefore making it harder to “date” the photo. Hairstyles though were easier to be “on trend”.
So many great ideas. I'm impressed at your sleuthing ideas. I have all my paternal grandparent's photos and many of my maternal grandparent's. I'm saving this video for when I'm ready to take on the project. Almost done with my own photos so my daughter won't have the same issues. Thanks!
When my grandmas house was destroyed by a tornado we discover a box of old photos most of which as you were describing seem to date around early 1800's to early 1900's ,a few tin types. No idea who they are because we were never allowed to look at them. I don't see photographers name on any of them.
What an interesting story of how you found those pics. You might share them with the local genealogy society there and see if any collateral family or researchers recognize them.
Thank you for sharing! A few years ago I inherited a lot from my great aunt, including many family photographs. This part of my family was very private and had some relationship issues that resulted in the family history not being shared. I wish I could start going through the photographs right now, but as a college student I am not living at home and when I am at home I either do not have time or space or both.
My father mixed a bunch of photos up, however I do know who most are and some have names on the back and the rest I can pretty much figure out which side of the tree they belong- reason is because my mother's side is has a totally different look. With some of the photos family homes were in shots so that also helped ID as well.
Not that long ago I was looking at old photos and thought to myself... it that mom? huh... and I few days later I remembered an argument I had had with my sister... She was sure the person in that photo was mom, my sister pointed at the boots the person in the photo was clearly were... mom owned those boots! but no, I actually remembered that I had "borrowed" the boots that day. the person in that photo was I, myself.
Thanks for another great video. Back in 1992 on the day that my maternal grandpa died, I was given a photo of an adorable little girl from my grandma's photo album. The aunt who let me have it didn't know who the child was. Grandma was in the grips of Alzheimer's and couldn't tell me either. Obviously, Grandpa was in no position to tell me. Grandma's sisters were dead already, but Grandpa still had a living sister. I took the photo to her. Grandma and Grandpa's families had grown up around each other. Aunt Mary said that it did not look like a Spence child to her (Grandpa's side), that the little girl looked like a Pressley (Grandma's daddy's side). The other photos on that page of the album were from the mid-to-late 1930s and were printed like a thick postcard, as was this one. My mother and her sisters were not born until the 1940s, so I know it wasn't them. My grandma and her sisters who made it to adulthood were born in the 1910s, so were too old to have been this child who was maybe 5 years old, at most, in the late 1930s. The child could possibly have ben my mother's half-sister from Grandpa's first marriage, but Aunt Mary would have recognized Aunt Ramona, so I can rule out it being her. Grandma had two sisters that died in infancy or early childhood, but it can't be either of them because the last of them died in 1923. I have recently been invited to and joined a FB group that was created by family members on my Grandma's daddy's side. The purpose of the group is to share and identify old family photos, so I am hoping that someone on that site will know who this precious little girl is so that I can finally give her a name and put her photo into my family tree. Keep up the good work, Lisa. :)
@@LisaLissonAYMC Thank you! I'm glad that they created it, too, and recently invited me to join. Do you know how to set up a FB group like this? I am contemplating creating one for my daddy's family as well as for my birth father's family, but I don't know how to do it.
Also searching hairstyles can help to date a photo. I live in Eastern Kentucky, which is sometimes difficult to travel throughout history, but also we have a lot of people who were very poor. Historically, we got a lot of trends, etc, 20 years after they were popular. It was quite common to pass clothing down, therefore making it harder to “date” the photo. Hairstyles though were easier to be “on trend”.
So many great ideas. I'm impressed at your sleuthing ideas. I have all my paternal grandparent's photos and many of my maternal grandparent's. I'm saving this video for when I'm ready to take on the project. Almost done with my own photos so my daughter won't have the same issues. Thanks!
great video, thank you
When my grandmas house was destroyed by a tornado we discover a box of old photos most of which as you were describing seem to date around early 1800's to early 1900's ,a few tin types. No idea who they are because we were never allowed to look at them. I don't see photographers name on any of them.
What an interesting story of how you found those pics. You might share them with the local genealogy society there and see if any collateral family or researchers recognize them.
Thank you for sharing! A few years ago I inherited a lot from my great aunt, including many family photographs. This part of my family was very private and had some relationship issues that resulted in the family history not being shared. I wish I could start going through the photographs right now, but as a college student I am not living at home and when I am at home I either do not have time or space or both.
So glad you enjoyed this! It's wonderful you inherited all those photographs. Hopefully, you find time in the near future to start working on them.
My father mixed a bunch of photos up, however I do know who most are and some have names on the back and the rest I can pretty much figure out which side of the tree they belong- reason is because my mother's side is has a totally different look. With some of the photos family homes were in shots so that also helped ID as well.
So glad you were able to sort them out and identify them!
Not that long ago I was looking at old photos and thought to myself... it that mom? huh... and I few days later I remembered an argument I had had with my sister... She was sure the person in that photo was mom, my sister pointed at the boots the person in the photo was clearly were... mom owned those boots! but no, I actually remembered that I had "borrowed" the boots that day. the person in that photo was I, myself.
Thanks for another great video.
Back in 1992 on the day that my maternal grandpa died, I was given a photo of an adorable little girl from my grandma's photo album. The aunt who let me have it didn't know who the child was. Grandma was in the grips of Alzheimer's and couldn't tell me either. Obviously, Grandpa was in no position to tell me. Grandma's sisters were dead already, but Grandpa still had a living sister. I took the photo to her. Grandma and Grandpa's families had grown up around each other. Aunt Mary said that it did not look like a Spence child to her (Grandpa's side), that the little girl looked like a Pressley (Grandma's daddy's side).
The other photos on that page of the album were from the mid-to-late 1930s and were printed like a thick postcard, as was this one. My mother and her sisters were not born until the 1940s, so I know it wasn't them. My grandma and her sisters who made it to adulthood were born in the 1910s, so were too old to have been this child who was maybe 5 years old, at most, in the late 1930s. The child could possibly have ben my mother's half-sister from Grandpa's first marriage, but Aunt Mary would have recognized Aunt Ramona, so I can rule out it being her.
Grandma had two sisters that died in infancy or early childhood, but it can't be either of them because the last of them died in 1923.
I have recently been invited to and joined a FB group that was created by family members on my Grandma's daddy's side. The purpose of the group is to share and identify old family photos, so I am hoping that someone on that site will know who this precious little girl is so that I can finally give her a name and put her photo into my family tree.
Keep up the good work, Lisa. :)
I love that your family created a FB group specifically for this purpose! It's such a good way to crowdsource information on those old family photos.
@@LisaLissonAYMC Thank you! I'm glad that they created it, too, and recently invited me to join.
Do you know how to set up a FB group like this? I am contemplating creating one for my daddy's family as well as for my birth father's family, but I don't know how to do it.
Watch for a video on setting up a family FB page!
@@LisaLissonAYMC Thank you! Have a blessed day. :)
How would one store those old hinged photos? Thanks in advance!