[or-roots] Identify you photos

[Cecil Houk]

I don't know about you, but I have a great number of photographs that came from the estates of my ancestors.  Some of them have names written on the back, but most don't.  I can identify many of those people because I knew them while they were living; some because their names were written on the back side of the photos.

But don't do this:  Look at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/7/1935c.jpg
This is a photo of a group of people taken on the 50th wedding anniversary of my gr gr grandparents, Frank and Ida Anderson in 1935.  On the back of this photo the names are listed, BUT!!!  They include: "me", "mother", "grandmother", "grandfather", etc..  DON'T DO THIS!

I was able to identify the unnamed only because I know who "me" is/was; Fern Anderson nee unknown.  Talk about a bull headed red head.  And it didn't come out of a bottle!  Fern married my maternal grandmother's brother, Earnest Anderson.

So...  When you have the time, write the full names on the back of all of your photos.

Happy hunting,
Cecil


Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
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