Un-named Old Photos

Posted by: terribrown

17th Jul 2010 01:24pm

Since I started tracing my Family tree I have noticed how frequently our parents and grandparents either neglected to name people in their family snapshots or just labled them , for example, 'Mums sister' or 'Uncle Alf'.
I myself have a box of about 400 wonderful old family photos - with absolutely no idea at all who the people were and how they are related to me.
With the now advent of digital photos it is probable that this problem is going to get worse.
I have tried identifying them through the photography studio marked on the back but most of these are now out of existence.
Does any-one else share my frustration about this issue.?

typhoon

17th Nov 2010 04:32pm

Try finding old photo's more than 100 years old which are family but there are no people alive who remember the people or places in the photo's. Some of the people will never be identified and only guessed at as to who they are.
Digital photo's won't make the problem worse but only different.information can be stored in digital photo's so the people in the photo's are not forgotten. The storage of the photo's, now that is another problem. But technology changes so much that the format they are stored on now may be outdated in a decade or two.Will the old format be readable under the new technology, that is the question.

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