Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs

Download or read book Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs written by Maureen Taylor and published by Family Tree Books. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visually stunning book of historic family photographs, renowned family history researcher and photography expert Maureen A. Taylor shows you how to cherish old photographs and what clues they can provide to your ancestors' lives. You will learn how to: Identify and verify people in family photographs. Tell the story of identified photographs using the clues in the images. Locate additional family photographs. Create worksheets for each image to expand your knowledge about your ancestors. Discover the history of photography and learn when specific costumes, hairstyles, architecture, interior design trends, and more were popular. This improved revised edition, full of color photographs, is sure to be instructive and inviting to genealogists, scrapbookers, and history enthusiasts alike. Find out more about this fascinating medium and your ancestors' place in it today!