It’s always advised to include identifying information on any digital image of a photograph. While such information can be included in metadata, the fact remains that images posted online get copied and pasted with no attention paid to metadata. It is also possible that some digital imaging programs strip metadata altogether. It’s easy to add free-form commentary to any digital image of a photograph. Be certain to include: Names of individual Location Date Provenance who has picture (you don’t have to list their address) who made image and date (at least year) how identification was made ——————————- If you don’t know how to add these images to your own digital images, it’s one of the two topics discussed in my recent webinar on “Citing Digital Images and Creating […]
Fractions are a genealogist’s friend because they are often clues to an inheritance. The children of Paul Freund in Davenport, Iowa, owned two-thirds of his farm, his cows, his wagon, and his calves upon his death. That’s the items listed in the inventory that is a part of their guardianship. Paul died with no will (intestate) and state law dictated that the widow received a third of the property with the rest going to his children. That’s how they ended up with a two-thirds interest. The probate documents don’t explain how they got the two-thirds interest as court records in this time period don’t often explain things that stem from state statute or common law. That’s why a general understanding of probate procedures is helpful. And why fractions […]
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