{"id":32380,"date":"2026-03-06T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32380"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:35:29","slug":"album-position-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/album-position-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Position Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For one reason or another, it may be necessary to remove photos from an album. I get that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the positioning of photos can contain clues and is information that should be preserved (scanning or digital camera\/phone photos are fine). The photo on the upper right I knew contained my grandmother (holding baby) and her in-laws. From other pictures and based on his face, I was certain the boy standing up was my Dad’s older brother. I’m also reasonably certain the child my great-grandfather is holding is his second grandson my Dad’s first cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on their ages and the fact that my Grandma is holding the baby, I’m almost 100% certain it’s my Dad she is holding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the picture to the left of it, must be my great-grandfather holding my Dad and apparently taken on the same day. If the photos had all been loose in a box, I probably could have figured it out in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the organization of the photo album helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that we all have photos that are loose. I realize that–so please don’t fill up comments with “but this doesn’t work when there are not scrapbooks. I know it doesn’t as I have my own boxes of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when there is a scrapbook and you are contemplating taking it apart…take pictures of the pages first…so you’ve kept whatever information there is in the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was recently shared on our Facebook page but thought it worth sharing as a Genealogy Tip of the Day. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For one reason or another, it may be necessary to remove photos from an album. I get that. But the positioning of photos can contain clues and is information that should be preserved (scanning or digital camera\/phone photos are fine). The photo on the upper right I knew contained my grandmother (holding baby) and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}