Posts in October 26, 2025

If you are adding idenfitication information to a digital image of an old photograph, indicate also how you came to obtain that identification. Was it written on the reverse? Did you recognize the handwriting? Did a relative tell you who was on the photograph? Did someone you interacted with online tell you? Did you find another image of the photograph online that was identified (be sure to cite that)? Do you have other photos with the person and based on those images, you identified who was in the photograph? Did you make the identification due to your own personal knowledge? Identification is great, but a name without any idea how the identification was made can be problematic. Download our Charts Webinar or our Full-Text Searching at FamilySearch Webinar.