Photos As a Genealogical Research Tool
I have now been researching the family roots for many years. Over the years, I have become known within the family as the family historian, the keeper of the data and when all else fails, the person to give old photos to. Over the years I've accumulated quite a lot of photos. They have been stored in boxes and like everyone else, I thought that one day, I really ought to sort them out. "Sorting them out" was a very vague term that meant that either I was going to put them into albums so that they would fit tidily on a bookshelf or else I'd scan them and put them on to a disc. Did I think that they were useful to my genealogical research? Not really. For a long time I was avid in my genealogical research. I found names and dates. I found little snippets of information that were like gold dust to me. I was gradually able to build a family tree which so far stretches back to 1590. Somewhere along the line, came the thought "I wonder what they looked like?" Whe...