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From: "Dorothy Falk" <>
Subject: [ILCLINTON] Identifying Old Photographs
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:38:01 -0500

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From: "Cheryl Rothwell" <>
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Subject: [IL-CENTRAL] Identifying Old Photographs


My cousin and I have been going through old photographs. My grandmother
had pictures back to an ancestor who fought in the War of 1812 [when he
was older of course] but, like most people, she didn't identify them.
She probably got the older pictures from her mother-in-law and didn't
even know who they were but she saved them. Here's some web sites I have
come across that might be useful if you are doing the same.

Here is a web site on 19th Century photography that might be useful in
identifying old family pictures:

http://www.ajmorris.com/roots/photo/photo.htm

And this one has a pictorial timeline of costumes which may help date a
picture through clothing:

http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/timeline.htm

Cheryl Rothwell

www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/
Logan County ILGenWeb
Central Illinois Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb
Clark, Downing, Harding, Lucas et al

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