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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Unwanted Certificates & Artefacts => Topic started by: sestanley on Wednesday 16 November 05 02:02 GMT (UK)
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I'm posting this in the hope that someone somewhere can also claim one of my ancestors as their own. That they can recognize some of these people.
Martha Evans' Album:
http://lightfootfamily.rootschat.net/album/index.html
This album belonged to my Gt. Grandmother. Her name was Martha Paddock (nee Evans) born 1854. She was the daughter of Hugh and Maria Evans (nee Roberts of Llangedwyn, Denbighshire) of Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire.
I don't know who these people are, but in many of the photographs I see a very strong family likeness.
The photos originate from various places. Yet another mystery.
Oh how I wish they had written on them!
Susan
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Hi , It seems alot of people have the same problem as me. Albums full of photographs of unknown people.We know they're of some relation ( why else would we have the photo's ? ) but can't figure out how their related or who they are.I set up a website specifically for photographs like these. Where they can be posted up onto the web along with all known details, in the hope that someone will visit the website and recognise a face!
If your interested in this idea then please get in touch with me
Jackie
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Hey. I would love to look at your website, what is the address?
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Hi the address is http://genealogyphotos0.tripod.com
please take a look and send me any photos through the 'contact me' page
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HI
I have no photo to pass on to you but what a fantastic idea. Do I have your permission to spread this wonderful website around http://genealogyphotos0.tripod.com?
Wendy
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Yes please, id be very grateful if you could pass the address on
Jackie
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Don't forget there's also Rootschat's Victorian photos website:
www.victorian-photos.rootschat.net
I haven't updated it in a while, but I have contributions now from a couple of people which have to be put up.
:)
Prue
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Ths has given me food for thought. I know the people in the photos I have taken, but in years to come someone may be wondering who they are. It's a job for a nice rainy day to get out the albums and put the names and descriptions of family (and friends) on to the back of them.
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Prue, as a person knowledgeable in this area (photographs) would you suggest writing on the back? It is great to identify, but isn't there a safer way, as any ink and pressure are both going to cause problems further down the road...? J.J.
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Hi JJ :)
Although it might seem the antithesis of good conservation principles, actually writing on the back is the only way to ensure that the information stays with the photograph.
Use a soft-ish pencil such as a B or 2B, and write gently, without pressing too hard.
:)
Prue
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My way around it, is to make copies of the photos, & write on the back of those with a 5B pencil. Serves 2 purposes..... one, you have pictures identified.... two, there is more than one copy, and if they're stored in different places their chance of survival is greater.
For instance I have one copy of "important" photos, and my daughter who lives in another State has the other..... oh and I also share copies with relatives.
De
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Fantastic idea!! Had pondered it myself, but knew fine I'd never get round to it!! I have several for you... will scan them and send them over.
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I have done the same thing a couple of years ago with all the unidentified people in my collection.I think they all come from the Brighton area,or at least stem from there,some photo's were taken in Canada.
www.brightonpeople.piczo.com
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By the way, Mamacrystal ...I like that you pass photo copies around to family...It makes me crazy when a family member hangs on to them like they are theirs alone and don't share...It's like growing perrennials and sharing with others...If yours are lost, they can always be replaced. A friend of my mothers said that in the house fire, they lost every possession, but the only thing she regretted the loss of was all her photographs and negs... J.J.
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Just wanted to say that I sent one of mine to a paper, local to the area where I believed the people to be from, and got several replies. One reply was very useful indeed, and another which might have been, but the woman was to afraid to tell me anything as there had been a rift in the family, but she had been married to one of them! Frustrating or what!!!!!!
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Before my grandmother died about 20 years ago (I think it was when her alzheimers started to set in) she went through all her old family photos and wrote what she knew on the back about who they were, where and when they were taken....lovely photos of her in the 1920s out "courting" with my grandfather and notes like "Oh Happy Days". And older ones of her as a child and all her family. She also kept letters and postcards.
I'm so grateful to her now that I have been going through them working out who everyone is.
;D
Milly
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Don't forget there's also Rootschat's Victorian photos website:
www.victorian-photos.rootschat.net
I haven't updated it in a while, but I have contributions now from a couple of people which have to be put up.
:)
Prue
Hi. Like us all, I have unidentified photos of ancestors. I've also recently discovered a couple of oil paintings of ancestors which I'm trying to identify (see other site postings). I wonder if this site should/could expand to include all pictures of ancestors, including paintings?
What do you think?
I've attached an 'unknown' relative photo which I believe could be of a member of the Hills family who lived in the East Kent area. The photographer is Alexander J. Grossmann of Dover. Interesting to see that he says he is Patronized by H.R.H. Prince Arthur!
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Whoops - some computer troubles. This is a duplicate message posted by mistake
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Hi , It seems alot of people have the same problem as me. Albums full of photographs of unknown people.We know they're of some relation ( why else would we have the photo's ? ) but can't figure out how their related or who they are.I set up a website specifically for photographs like these. Where they can be posted up onto the web along with all known details, in the hope that someone will visit the website and recognise a face!
If your interested in this idea then please get in touch with me
Jackie
Sorry...off topic...but saw Jackie's earlier posting!
Jackie re: your online collection...you should use rootschat to help with some of your searches....such as did any Varley family lived in Milton Grove on any of the censuses? Not often that there is a clue on a photo as to where it was taken...perhaps a female married a fellow from there....This is a great and helpful siite. All the best...J.J.
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hello,
I am having a problem opening the web site is it still active please.
Avril
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Hi Avril,
The Rootschat free webserver has been out of action for some time, see this thread for latest news:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,295778.0.html
Prue
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Thanks I will wait, I have a lot of old photos bought in Auction as I cannot resist them it hurts me to see them all alone......
Avril
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Just come across this topic rather late in the day and would add a rider. Don't assume that everyone in your old album is a family member. In our album there are quite a few pictures of people connected with the Baptist Church where my gt-grandfather and grandfather were deacons and Sunday School teachers. Clearly the church played a great part in their lives, but I've only been able to identify most of the "chapel bodies" because I also have a little illustrated booklet dating back to the late 1800s with named photos in it. Other photos show groups from work - my great-uncle with fellow millworkers barefoot by his loom, etc.
As if it wasn't hard enough to identify family members from several generations ago! ::)
Gillg
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Let me add my support to Gillgs' warning. I've discovered photos of well known band leaders and local gentry. So keep an eye out.