In trying to find a picture of my mother, I realized that I had digital images of many pictures that were incompletely identified. Don’t neglect to identify people in those photographs.
And include that information on the image, along with some provenance. I should have included the date of the wedding, but the names of the couple and location are better than nothing.
In older photographs I also include a sentence on how identification was made.
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Seems to me it would be very easy for you to find the date of the wedding and edit the info accompanying this photo.
— Sue Pearson Greichunos
True, Sue–I could have and will for my own personal use.
I think I’m going to leave it as is for the tip as I just want people to put something on pictures to identify them and not waste “too much time” trying to get every detail as precise as they can. At least I’ll use that for my excuse 😉
My youngest cousin, who I have never met, has the photos that my Grandma had said were to go to me when she moved out of her house, & this cousin REFUSES to let me have them. I have letters & notes from Grandma that say that “Our Ancestors” were to be given to me, but that cousin still won’t let me have the photos. I’ve told her that I’ll go to Kinko’s & get photo quality duplicates, & identify the people in the photos, & then put them in a photo album for her. I’ll also include the family genealogy for her — she doesn’t know anything about genealogy & cannot identify the people in the photos. I know all about the family & have waited for twenty years for those pictures so I’d finally be able to put a face to the names; but I don’t know if I ever will be able to do that. She lives in Texas, & I’m in Washington; & I’ve told that I’ll pay for getting the photos up here. She still refuses.