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06 August 2014

A chart to help you determine if you can use an image

Images are an important part of our genealogical life. Whether we write a blog, are producing a family history, posting on Facebook, sharing on Ancestry.com, etc, images are often involved. The key is to know which images you can use.

Lifehacker has published a graphic Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images (a small version is reproduced above) created by The Visual Communication Guy. Do read his short introductory blurb on this page where he states “The reality is, though, as long as you become familiar with four terms–copyright, fair use, creative commons, and public domain–you’ll have a pretty good idea what you can and can’t do with images.”

This graphic has been making the rounds on various genealogy and family history Facebook (FB) pages.

Additionally, do read the comments, the genealogy community’s own Thomas MacEntee posted clarifications on a couple of issues and others have posted similarly informative responses as well.

While you are visiting the website, check out what else he has such as The Seven Deadly Sins of Punctation. After all many of the pictures we use are to accompany text we’ve written!

Did you find other neat gems on his website?

Editor's Note: A reader suggests that you consult this chart When U.S. Works Pass into the Public Domain. Note that this chart only refers to U.S. works. Copyright law is unique to each country of publication. [added 7 August 2014]

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30 July 2014

Retronaut -- the Photographic Time-Machine

Long time readers know that as much as I love maps, I also love photos.

I just learned about another photo site, Retronaut (FREE to join though you will need to register). It is self described by:

Retronaut is a photographic time machine.

It is a digital collection of tens of thousands of pictures from across the past, all with one thing in common - each one has the power to warp your sense of time.

Our team mines archives online and offline, unearthing pictures that seem not to belong to the time when they were created, that dissolve away the years like tarnish on a ring, that take our collective map of the past and tear tiny holes in it - holes through which we glimpse the real past lying underneath our map.

These are pictures that show not so much the past as they show “now” – but another version of now.

In the course of learning more about this site, I came across this article 'Retronauting': why we can't stop sharing old photographs. The article talks about our interest in old photographs and mentions another site HistoryInPix (link is to Pinterest page). A Google search on History + Pictures + Collections brought up a massive collection of such. So, as you research your ancestors, you might check to see if there are any image collections particular to the place and/or time of their lives.

For me, the interest in pictures (and maps) is that as a visual person, I love to “see” what the world was like as seen and experienced by my ancestors.

What is your favorite historic photo collection?

Editor’s Note: Old photograph collections are not a new topic for Upfront with NGS. Catch previous posts on the topic:

+ Historic Photos -- a neat way to "see" how people and places once were

+ Colorizing Photoshoppers Put a New Spin on Old Historical Photos

+ FREE Video Series -- Caring and Preserving Family Papers, Photographs and More

+ you can also “search” on Upfront with NGS + Photos or Photographs or Images and some “mini bytes” will show up

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07 August 2012

How Google Images can help you research your family history like never before

Unfortunately, we have photos where people maybe labeled or places maybe labeled and sometimes there are no labels and so we are scratching our head to try and figure out “where” a photo was taken and of course possibly “about when” and “who” is always nice!

My grandmother had some photos from my grandfather’s side (long-deceased) that she shared with me. Unfortunately, none of them are labeled, though based on other photos, I was able to “identify” some of the “who!” Except, there is one photo which has always bugged me because I’m not recognizing the “who” and I can’t quite figure out the “where” which might then help me narrow who participated. I know England. Probably Lancashire. Possibly the Manchester/Oldham/Chadderton area and even knowing it was a “Temperance Hotel,” I have not yet been able to place it? I have a few others and this is the one that has bugged me the most!

Well, I just read an article about using Google Images and how it might help with the “where!”

The web has made tracing our family histories more accessible and more affordable and, indeed, an increasing number of us are using the web to find out more about our past. Yet, even though our past is now more accessible few of us have the time to spend deep in research and many of us don’t know where to start.

Here is one simple technique, using Google Images, Google Maps, and Google Streetview, that can help you learn more about your past and give you more information about your relatives’ lives.

Read the full article by Piers Dillon Scott.

Did this help you? Share your successes? Or, share a method that has worked well for you when trying to figure out “where” for a family photo!

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