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12 January 2017

Alabama Media Group Gifts State Archives Millions of Previously Unseen Historical Photos

Alabama Media Group Gifts State Archives Millions of Previously Unseen Historical Photos

What great news for those researching Alabama family …

Alabama Media Group is donating its massive collection of historical photographic negatives chronicling the people, places and events of the 20th century to the Alabama Department of Archives and History, where the images will be preserved, catalogued, digitized and made available online to the public.

Containing more than 3 million images from The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register, the collection is the largest gift of historical content received by the state archives in its 115-year history.

Most of these photo negatives have never been printed or published.

Read the pull press release here.

Here is the landing page on the Alabama Department of Archives & History website, home to the collection and where, as images are digitized, they can be accessed, though probably not until the latter part of 2017.

Check out a short and yet powerful video about the new collection.

What other massive historical image archives are you aware of?

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26 July 2016

You Can Now Easily Convert B&W Photos to Color Ones for FREE!

You Can Now Easily Convert B&W Photos to Color Ones for FREE!

I don’t know about you and I don’t have a lot of time to play around with image modification software. I have a couple of basic programs on my computer that I use to crop images with. I sometimes play with contrast or erasing bits from an image and that is about the extent of my dabbling in photo modifications.

Photoshop and other more sophisticated software is above my pay grade as they say!

Recently, I learned about a FREE & easy-to-use website based option for converting B&W images to color ones via Colourize your photos instantly with this free tool. You can access the tool directly via Colorize Photos (Algorithmia).

You can either put in the URL for an image or upload an image.

Of course, I had to play around with it. I learned quickly that you don’t want to try it on muddied B&W images. I have some old images that were photocopied (back in the day) and then scanned and those just won’t work.

I next tried some B&W postcards from the NC, starting with one for Andrew Johnson’s Birthplace. See the result at the top of this post. The changes weren’t dramatic and given a wood house and a tree, probably be close to what it did look like in 1905 (the date on this postcard). I next tried it on The Magnolia (another postcard from the same year) with a little more dramatic outcome.

I never got quite the result I was hoping for. Though, I really couldn’t spend all day playing around with it. Maybe you’ll have better success.

Be careful though, it is addicting!

What did you think?

If you had great success, please share!

What other easy-to-use means of converting B&W photos to color do you know of?

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25 September 2015

Did you know that Ancestry.com has photos collections (beyond public member ones)?

Sarah N Dippity(*) (aka serendipity) is such a part of the fabric of our family history research.

I will be doing researching on one thing and stumble across something unrelated that is valuable. It kind of reinforces my scorched earth approach to research – it never hurts to look at all extant records for a time and place of interest, you never know what you might learn!

That said, I was just reading about news that might become the basis for an Upfront with NGS blog post and I came across Historic images of Britain’s towns, cities and villages revealed in searchable online archive which refers to a collection of “nearly a quarter of a million historic images of UK towns, cities and villages dating back to 1857.” Since my maternal ancestry is 100% UK, this piqued my curiosity.

I learned that this particular database was found in the UK version of Ancestry.com. I was able to access it with no issue via my US-based Ancestry.com subscription

I have always been aware of images associated with individual family trees and I had not known that Ancestry.com also had image collections separate from the images provided by users.

So, of course, I needed to explore this further.

I searched on pictures as a keyword and was rewarded with 80 relevant entries. I am so glad I discovered this feature. In the past, I would just Google search for images if I wanted a “visual” related to some research, now I will make a point of checking out these Ancestry.com databases. Of course, since I do love images, it might be even harder now to not distract myself.

Have you stumbled across an image collection in an unexpected place? If so, let us know about it.

(*) coined by my good friend James P Jones

Editor's Note: [added 28 Sept 2015] As with all Ancestry.com collections, there are restrictions on what can be accessed based on what level of subscription one has. If you only have a US subscription, you will NOT be able to access the UK photo collection and there are other picture collections available to you.

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25 November 2014

Neat & Heartwarming -- Found Letters Returned to Family ...

It’s always nice to hear when possessions or letters are returned to a family ...

Special Report: Loved Ones Lost, Letters Found tells of some letters found in a basement and the successful research to identify a living relative of the letter’s authors, 3 brothers.

The letters have offered the family a new snapshot of their Lanthier history, and at the same time, it's brought them together to remember these three men- three brothers- who served their country.

Do you know of a similar success story where letters, a family heirloom, photographs, a bible, or some other piece of memorabilia?

A few other posts along the lines of reuniting family heirlooms with a family ...

+ Colorado family reunited with 150-year-old bible found in Valley

+ Treasured family heirloom landed in the trash, reunited with owners, newspaper reports

+ Cape Breton woman reunited with lost family heirloom

+ Family reunited with stolen 1938 heirloom telegram

+ Newcastle writer reunited with 200-year-old piece of family history (just skip the survey question)

+ Family reunited with lost photos

These world-wide stories all give us hope that maybe the oft-mentioned and yet not in anyone’s known possession bible might someday turn up.

There was one occasion where I was contacted by someone, based on a family genealogy posted on my website, about letters for my brother-in-law’s family. The person wanted to see that the letters got to a family member and so I drove out to a meet point, was given the letters, and we both went our separate ways. I then gave the letters to my sister and they are now a treasured keepsake.

Editor’s Note: Social Media played a part in some of these success stories!

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21 October 2014

In the 1900s Many of Your Ancestors Worked, as Children, in Factories, Mines and Other Dangerous Places

As stated on Upworthy, Once In A While, Somebody Comes Along And Captures Images That Change A Nation

Some of the most disturbing images that were captured in the early part of the 1900s were those of kids working in factories, coal mines, and other places where no kids belonged. The most famous photographer was Lewis Hine; his pictures brought these children into the spotlight in a way the nation could no longer ignore.

There is a video at the end with many images of child laborers ... they didn’t have childhoods like what many of us had. It’s well worth taking 3.5 minutes to watch it. Maybe some of your ancestors were child laborers and worked under these conditions.

You can check out more images in the National Child Labor Committee Collection (Library of Congress). I searched on Salem Massachusetts since my ancestors were emigrating between 1900-1910 into that community. Many of the photos do identify who the children were.

This website, The History Place, also has a webpage devoted to Child Labor in America 1908-1912, Photographs of Lewis W. Hine. I also found this website interesting, Child Labor Public Education Project. Upfront with NGS previously talked a bit about this same project in the post Photo + Genealogy Sleuthing = 100+ Year Mystery Solved.

This is a reminder that as we do our research, we have to consider the time and the place and what were considered the norms. You cannot look at your life now and use that as the benchmark for your ancestors. Do learn the history of where they lived, what was acceptable and not. Though we may not agree with child labor, there also used to be laws on the books that might be nice if we still had them such not swearing in public (you could be fined), etc

Do you know if your ancestors worked as child laborers? If so, doing what?

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09 October 2014

FREE Book on Dating 19th Century Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Cased Tintypes

As family historians, we love photographs. Sometimes though we struggle to figure out who is actually in the photograph. To help us with that challenge, we often try to determine exactly when the photograph was produced.

If you are dealing with a 19^th century photograph, that task might be a little easier now that Sean William Nolan has written Fixed in Time, a FREE book. Here is his PR release ...

The book, "Fixed in Time", contains illustrations of hundreds of mat and case styles, identified by the specific years during which they were used. Many styles were used for only a brief time, allowing you to date some early photographs to within a year.

This has been a labor of love for the past two years, bringing together my interests in photography, history, and my skills as a programmer. The book is the fruit of extensive research, having located over 2,100 objectively dated photographs from 1840 to 1865. Other guides exist to help you date photographs, but they are not as accurate as mine, being based small data sets and conventional wisdom (which I have found is *usually* correct). My guide is, however, more focused, and does not discuss uncased images or photographs after 1870.

You can pick up a PDF of my guide by going to www.facebook.com/fixed.in.time.book. You don't need to be a Facebook member to do this.

This book is a work in progress; I plan to issue an update next year. You can help me make the next edition more complete and precise by letting me know of any objectively dated cased photographs you may have.

I have downloaded the book and it is full of images to illustrate all that he talks about. Makes me wish that I had some 19^th century photographs (well, I actually wish that anyway ) so that I could explore their history in the context of the photography techniques of the time.

Did the book help you narrow the time frame of when a photo of interest to you was created?

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23 September 2014

Internet Archive Creates a Virtual Visual Feast on Flickr -- Millions of Historical Images -- All FREELY Accessible!

What’s not to love about the Internet Archive? It has so many resources that benefit our research from digitized books (including directories, court cases and so much more) to digitized web pages (Wayback Machine), and more.

The newest venture is The Commons – The Internet Archive has now uploaded millions of images to Flickr.

Read more about this via Internet Archive Uploads Millions of Historical Images to Flickr (David Murphy, PC Magazine).

If you have a hankering for some old-timey cat pictures, the Internet Archive has you covered. Specifically, the Internet Archive's Flickr account will likely contain that which you seek, as the organization recently posted several million images to the popular photo-sharing site.

These images are the first batch of what the Internet Archive is calling “The Commons,” a new collection made up photographs from the more than 600 million book pages that the organization has digitally scanned. The pages themselves amount to more than 19 petabytes of data—with more than 14 million images eventually expected to make their way online.

The Commons currently has over 2.5 million photos posted and it is a virtual visual feast!

When you click on any image you are told its source – the publication, date, and page. It also tells whether there are any known copyright restrictions in place.

I just was trawling through the images and came across “Image from page 468 of “Allen county, Indiana, circuit court record general index” (1824)” and “Image from page 253 of “Olcott’s land values blue book of Chicago” (1921).” How cool is that?!?!

Whether you want to feast your eyes upon some historic pictures or spot some clues regarding your ancestors and/or their lives, do check out this ever-growing collection of images.

Editor’s Note: Other Upfront with NGS posts about Internet Archive -- Internet Archive -- still a wonderful and free gem for genealogy and family history researchers! (Dec 2012) and Finding guides for select NARA collections on the Internet Archive (May 2011)

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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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25 July 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – Adoption, Chicago, Tribal Maps, Odd French Linguistics, Surname Distribution, Tips for Reading Old Handwriting, Historic Photos, and Digitized Australian Newspapers

Editor’s Note: After a brief moratorium, Upfront Mini Bytes are back!

Welcome to our newest edition of our periodic feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!

We hope you found the past editions helpful. Use your favorite search engine with “Upfront with NGS” “Mini Bytes” or use this Google search link.

Do you have questions, suggestions for future posts, or comments? Please post a comment or send an e-mail to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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The Adoption History Project has a neat online archive. Many in our family history community are adopted or are researching adoptions involving ancestors. It has subsections labeled: Timeline, People & Organizations, Adoption Studies/Science, Topics in Adoption History, Further Reading, and Document Archives. There is a lot of helpful material here, especially when you are seeking historical context.

Have roots or connections to Chicago? Checkout This Clever Map Compares Chicago Before and After the Great Fire. You can overlay two maps: “One, culled from Google Maps’ API, shows Chicago of (roughly) today. The other is a color map of the city drawn in 1868, three years before the Great Fire.”

2010 Census - Tribal Tract Reference Maps are available from the US Census Bureau. These give you a very detailed perspective on tribal census tracts and tribal block groups as delineated to support 2010 Census data dissemination. The maps also show the boundaries and names of American Indian reservations, off-reservation trust lands (ORTLs), Alaska Native areas, Hawaiian home lands, states, counties, county subdivisions, places, and much more. A great resource to match against historic maps and visualize how reservations have changed through time.

If you are doing French genealogy, be aware of some Linguistic Oddities. “Beyond the study of name-mangling in parish and civil registrations is the issue of odd terminology ... Reading civil and parish registrations is repetitious work and just as we begin to doze off, invariably, an odd term will snap us awake, even make us laugh. But these terms can be baffling as well, so today we give a mini-lexicon.”

Appreciating where surnames might be found can often help us advance our genealogy research. One tool that might help you is PublicProfiler Worldnames. At this site, you enter your surname (or the one that interests you) and run a search to determine the world-wide distribution of the name. Do know that you need to enter an email address and indicate gender to get started. The coverage is North American, Europe, the UK, India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina. The map shown is for Barna which fits my ancestor’s migration from Galicia (Poland near the borders with the Ukraine and Slovakia (previously Kingdom of Hungary).

Though not “new” definitely important to our research: Tips for reading old handwriting, Tips for Reading Old Records: Handwriting, Spelling, and Boundaries, and Deciphering Old Handwriting. If you want to test yourself on Early American Handwriting, play this “game” to decode the messages of handwritten documents. How did you do?

A fun visual bit of history, 14 Amateur Photos Taken With the Very First Consumer Camera. “Introduced in 1888, the Kodak No. 1 was the first camera marketed to average consumers. And thanks to a new set of images from the National Media Museum, we can now see what kinds of photos these early amateurs shot.”

Trove is a wonderful collection of digitized Australian newspapers. It includes National, Regional, and State newspapers. As of earlier this week there were 13,683,606 pages consisting of 131,943,198 articles available to search, covering from 1803 to 2007. Learn more about the Australian Newspaper Digitsation Program.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to everyone that responded to the Upfront Mini Bytes survey. Based on your feedback, this feature will continue with the same format and frequency.

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