Identify Photographs During the Holidays

The holidays can be a time to bore your relatives with family stories. Try and avoid this.

Another holiday genealogical activity is to put out unidentified photographs at family gatherings and see if anyone can remember:

• who is in the picture
• when it was taken
• where it was taken
• what was going on when it was taken
• etc.

It may take a village to identify the photograph. One relative may remember one detail, another may remember something else, discussion may trigger memories, etc. Don’t try and insist that someone remember everything–and even an “irrelevant” clue may end up being significant.

And it’s allowable if you can’t identify everything in the picture. I still don’t remember the name of the stuffed animal shown in the illustration to this post.