Maureen Alice Taylor
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English
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Historical family photos offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors, but the images-- and the stories behind them-- often fade away as decades pass. Taylor shows you how to study the clues in your old family photos to put names to faces and recapture their lost stories.
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Language
English
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"Using the clues in this book, you'll learn interesting facts about your ancestors by studying their photos and the hats they wore for portraits. By analyzing the styles in each decade, you can determine more about the lives of your relatives. Were they rich or poor? What season was it? Was their hat the current fashion or an old favorite? Maureen Taylor explores the history of toques and top hats, bowlers, and bonnets to add another dimension to...
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English
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Includes information on identifying and organizing your family photographs, identifying types of photographs, dating an image by identifying the costume and styles, preserving original family photographs, finding pictures of people on your family tree, identifying your unidentified pictures, sharing pictures with relatives, and selecting digital solutions for organizing your photographs.
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English
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Includes unique tips and techniques for building historically accurate and visually appealing heritage albums including how to create a sense of history in your albums, how to use safe scrapbooking methods to preserve your pages, and how to locate new materials such as photographs, documents, memorabilia and artifacts to include in your albums.