Posts in November 9, 2025

I prefer to put my identification and provenance on the bottom or side of my images. One can also put it in the metadata associated with the photo as well. This is about as much as I put. The intent is not to write a novel. Grandpa raised registered Angus cattle and he and his sons showed cattle at several locations in western Illinois–but there’s not room on the photo to include all of that. But it is something to document. I could create a word processing file with various photographs I have, newspaper clippings my Grandma had, things I found in newspapers related to showing the cattle, and the like. Join me for three days of research at the MidWest Genealogy Center. Download our Charts Webinar or our Full-Text Searching […]