05 April 2013

Photos and Identification -- How Do We Make Sure Descendants in the Future know WHO, WHEN & WHERE?


Image by Jonathan D. Blundellused under Create Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike2.0 Generic license


Keeping with our theme of photos and images which are such a big part of our research, how do we make sure that future generations know the details of a photo such as who is in it, when it was taken and by whom, and many other relevant details.


We can’t be sure that the image will remain “connected” to a report, webpage, Facebook (FB) post, etc.  And, short of putting a “label” on the front (since we don’t digitally really have a “back” to digital photos), what are we to do?


Okay, raise your hands if you remember flipping a photo, with fingers crossed, hoping that the names, place and date of a photo were written there?  How often were you disappointed?  If you are like my family – they had NO tradition of labeling photographs!  I do envy the holders of photos where I can see clear labels about who what and where.


Well, we have the same issue now with digital photos – we do want them labeled for future generations.


And, since we are being perfectly honest, though I have my images stored in folders on my computer labeling place and often date and sometimes who, I have NOT associated any identifying data with each image.  I guess this means that my “to do” list just got longer!


Here are a few posts/articles/videos that I found on this topic about “how” we might accomplish this:

Do you make sure that your digital photos/images have metadata? 
Do you have some other way of “labeling” photos you’ve taken or that you have digitized to share with others? 
Please share your tips and techniques by posting a comment.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
copyright © National Genealogical Society, 3108 Columbia Pike, Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia 22204-4370. http://www.ngsgenealogy.org.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Want to learn more about interacting with the blog, please read Hyperlinks, Subscribing and Comments -- How to Interact with Upfront with NGS Blog posts!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NGS does not imply endorsement of any outside advertiser or other vendors appearing in this blog.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
Republication of UpFront articles is permitted and encouraged for non-commercial purposes without express permission from NGS. Please drop us a note telling us where and when you are using the article. Express written permission is required if you wish to republish UpFront articles for commercial purposes. You may send a request for express written permission to [email protected]. All republished articles may not be edited or reworded and must contain the copyright statement found at the bottom of each UpFront article.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Follow NGS via Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Twitter
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Think your friends, colleagues, or fellow genealogy researchers would find this blog post interesting? If so, please let them know that anyone can read past UpFront with NGS posts or subscribe!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suggestions for topics for future UpFront with NGS posts are always welcome. Please send any suggested topics to [email protected]

2 comments:

  1. I recommend filegrove.com. It's a site that lets genealogist upload and add tags such as name, surname, place, date description to the files.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi, At MyHeritage we have a special photo tagging technology to label your digital photos. When you upload a photo to your family site, you can tag the individuals in the picture. Then, whenever you upload another photo of that person, the face recognition technology will identify them automatically, tag them, and add the photo to their profile in your family tree.

    You can also click on any face from an uploaded photo to get more information on the individual as well as all photos tagged of that person. You can read more here: http://www.myheritage.com/photos-tour-1.php?s=203260691

    ReplyDelete