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20 March 2017

Let's Get Unstuck! Time to Remove Photos From Sticky Album Pages

Let's Get Unstuck! Time to Remove Photos From Sticky Album Pages

Though Preservation Week isn’t until 23-29 April 2017, it’s NEVER too early to take little steps to help preserve the documents, images and ephemera in our possession or under our aegis.

For some reason, I was looking into those old sticky album pages (aka magnetic albums). You know those photo albums where you pulled up the clear acetate from a sticky background, placed your photos as desired, put the acetate back down and voila – your photos and memorabilia are organized, preserved and stored for perpetuity! Unfortunately, they aren’t good at preserving those photos so lovingly taken and placed, and, it can be challenging to remove (without) damage, the placed photos.

So, I sought some expert advice. I first came across a post on the American Library Association (ALA) website. This then directed me to a Freer Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) page, How to get out of a sticky situation! Both the ALA and the Smithsonian both have great resources not just for this particular situation and more.

Dear Donia (ALA preservation specialist Donia Conn provides tips on how to take care of our special photographs, letters, books, and more in her advice column), http://www.ala.org/alcts/preservationweek/advice.

And, the Smithsonian has many articles tagged with preserving your treasures.

I also came across Removing Photos from Sticky Photo Albums, where the ultimate goal was to scan images for preservation, and, which gave some very good advice about removing images from the offending albums including these two tidbits …

· According to the International Museum of Photography, it is advisable to simply leave photos in their albums if they are older than 60 years old. After that amount of time, the deterioration of the photos has already occurred and removing them without damaging them will be nearly impossible.

· Avoid using sharp objects such as knives or letter openers to pry the photos off the pages. Even a dull butter knife can end up cutting through a photo.

You are now set to remove your photos, if feasible, from those old damaging photo albums. Please, though, don't just put them into a box! My family unintentionally destroyed many photos using that method of storage!

Have you successfully removed your photos from sticky (aka magnetic) photo albums? What worked for you?

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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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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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23 May 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – Passenger List Annotations, London (UK), Gesher Galicia, Meharry Medical College, Historic Maps, Victorian Photos, Irish Ancestry, Historical Newspapers Online

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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Have you ever looked at a passenger list and noticed scribbles and writing on it? Most are actually significant and are not the result of a sloppy clerk or enthusiastic archivist. Learn more about these in A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations.

Did an ancestor have a business in London? Have you looked to see if there might be an extant archive of its records? If not, check out the London Metropolitan Archives Collections Guide – A-Z business listing.

I’m always looking for Galician/Ruthenian resources on the Internet. My father’s family emigrated (1900-1910) from Finland and Galicia. Because of that, and even though they weren’t Jewish, I pay close attention to what the Gesher Galicia: The Bridge to Galicia website posts because some of the mentioned resources could also benefit my research into my non-Jewish ancestry.

Meharry Medical College (Nashville TN) has a neat online archive. Included are historical student matriculation records (1878-197), catalogues, newsletters, yearbooks, graduation ceremony booklets, historical images, and more!

Just like looking at historic photos overlaid on modern images is neat, the same goes for overlaying historic maps on modern maps. Check out The Quaint Plans for American Cities, as We Envisioned Them 200 Years Ago. This project is based on the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1832), which the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab is bringing entirely online and geo-rectifying the maps so they can be viewed atop modern digital maps.

Speaking of historic photos, how often have you found yourself making faces or hamming it up so that those you are taking a photo of would stay still (hopefully mesmerized with a pleasant expression on their face)? Given the length of exposure time in the late 1800s (about 30 seconds), the task to keep an infant still required great creativity. Check out Victorian parents hiding in pictures to keep their babies still long enough for a portrait [20 pics] to see how parents were camouflaged just to get a photo taken.

Many people have Irish Ancestors. Irish ancestral research just gets easier and easier as more online resources become available. IrishCentral published its list of Your Irish roots online, a guide to some of the best genealogy sites. It lists a lot of neat resources.

We love historical newspapers. You just never know when a family member will be mentioned and we get a glimpse into their life. Penn Libraries is making it easier for us to identify what historical newspapers are online via their Historical Newspapers Online page. The information is grouped by state.

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16 May 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – Paper Dolls, Royal Navy, Perth Australia, Colorado Springs, Mug Shots, European History Primary Sources, Venice Italy, WWI 3D Photographs, US Census Enumerator Instructions

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.

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Girls of a certain age (and that does include my college-age daughter) remember playing with paper dolls. I do believe that they still exist though not as the centerpiece of our lives they once were. I remember spending many hours with paper dolls, although I was always frustrated when I couldn’t get the tabs to fold just right! Reading the article From Little Fanny to Fluffy Ruffles: The Scrappy History of Paper Dolls brought back these memories and also gave me some context into their popularity and history. Might my ancestors have also played with paper dolls? Speaking of paper dolls, I just stumbled across Heritage Paper Dolls -- free paper doll fashion pages for the Clara paper doll. The clothing is based on beautiful vintage fashions.

Did your ancestors serve in the Royal Navy and receive a pension? Did they or their widow die between 1830 and 1860? Did someone apply to receive unpaid wages or pensions? If this is possible for an ancestor of yours, check out Next of kin claims for unpaid Royal Navy pensions 1830-1860.

Researching ancestors in Perth, Western Australia? If so, check out this extensive resource list posted by James Tanner (Genealogy’s Star)

Colorado Springs (CO) has a neat index to articles called the Pikes Peak NewsFinder. Currently, citations to local news articles and obituaries from the Colorado Springs Gazette and other local newspapers, and citations to the Colorado Springs Death Registers for 1/6/1872-5/11/2014 are included.

Mug Shots. Were any of your ancestors imprisoned or wanted? If so, they may have had their mug shot taken and such would be an invaluable addition to your collection and also possibly tell you where a hidden ancestor disappeared to. Check out these collections: Doing Hard Time: Historic Nebraska Mug Shots, Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s, and Child mugshots of the 1800s were like a depressing episode of The Little Rascals. Google on historic + mug + shots for additional collections.

If I haven’t mentioned this resource before, check out the European History Primary Sources and its news archive. I get a periodic feed of new additions and if you are doing European research you’ll want to see what is available. For example, through this I learned about the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, which contains documents that were produced by the Venetian government until the 20^thcentury. When you visit the site, you can use Google Translate or similar to convert the native language website into English (or another language).

Previously used photographic techniques are always interesting. They give us glimpses into both the technology and the subject photographed. Check out Rare 3D Camera Found Containing Photos from WWI for your today’s visual fix!

Though no new census records will be released for several years, it’s never too early to prepare for the release of the 1950 census or make sure we fully understand the records of the 1850-1940 censuses. A great tool to help with this is the Enumerator Instructions page created by the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota. I will be spending a bit of time with these to help me more fully understand not just what was asked but how it was asked.

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