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<\/p>\nOriginally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 16 Jun 2016.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve had a very strange week \u2013 genealogywise!\u00a0 It started with this recent family photo tree purchase:<\/p>\n
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I always wanted to place family photos on the wall in my office but I couldn\u2019t decide which pictures to use or how to group them.\u00a0 I saw the photo tree concept online but the reviews weren\u2019t good; some said it was difficult to put together and others complained it wouldn\u2019t stay up on the wall.\u00a0 The trees were pricy, too, and I didn\u2019t want to waste time and money on a product that would frustrate me.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago I found the tree pictured above offered through Books R Fun locally.\u00a0 The reasonable price and the easy directions worked for me!\u00a0 Within minutes I had the tree up and then it hit me \u2013 why not use couple photos.\u00a0 I could display more people that way and since my husband and I share an office, it would serve as a nice reminder of our many grandparents.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t think it was going to take me long to finish the project as I sort of knew which photos I would select.\u00a0 First problem I encountered was my photos were missing from Google Photos.\u00a0 I\u2019ve blogged previously about how Google Picassa has morphed into Google Photos and I thought that I had successfully transferred all of them from one program to the other a few months ago.\u00a0 Evidently, most did not take.\u00a0 Please check if you did that, too, as it\u2019s better to know now then when you need them.<\/p>\n
No worries, I thought, I have them saved elsewhere.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I realized the computer where I had saved them had bit the dust.\u00a0 I checked Dropbox; they weren\u2019t there, either.\u00a0 I must have removed them when I reached the max allowable on my plan.\u00a0 They were on Ancestry.com but to have to go through the gallery to locate them would be time consuming.\u00a0 I have backups on cd but those were saved by family surnames and I would have had to keep flipping through the various cds to find what I wanted.\u00a0 I then remembered that I had installed Picassa on the desktop of an old laptop.\u00a0 Sure enough, there they all were!\u00a0 Since I had taken the time to place all the photos in albums it was a breeze to find what I was looking for quickly.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad this happened now as I have since backed up the laptop pictures to 2 hard drives and again, to Google Photos.\u00a0 The $8.00 tree purchase saved me future grief!<\/p>\n
Being a thrifty genealogist, I decided I wouldn\u2019t print the photos to photographic paper until I had them perfect as most of the photos I selected didn\u2019t fit easily into the frame size.\u00a0 I plan to make them real photos this weekend and add children of the couples to frames that will surround the tree.<\/p>\n
As I was arranging and rearranging the photos on the tree itself I was startled to discover how much of a strong family resemblance my father-in-law had to his mother and grandmother!\u00a0 My husband bears a remarkable resemblance to his maternal grandfather who he never knew.\u00a0 I have seen these photos for most of my adult life; none were new to me.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I placed them in the tree that I noticed the similarities between individuals.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure if it was because they were now almost all the same size, shape, and color, the angle on the wall or the proximity to each other.\u00a0 Looking at them from this perspective was nothing short of startling. I highly recommend trying this!\u00a0 You may discover things about your family in a completely different way.<\/p>\n
When I looked at myself, however, I was stunned.\u00a0 I don\u2019t look like anyone!\u00a0 I blurted out that I must have been adopted but hubby pointed out that I have the original birth certificate and that there are photos of me in my mother\u2019s arms in the hospital shortly after I was born.\u00a0 Mom clearly looked like she had been through labor!\u00a0 I knew I had my mom\u2019s eyes and figured my hair was just a blend of both of my parents \u2013 my dad\u2019s blonde and my mom\u2019s dark brown.\u00a0 Looking at the photos I realized I had my paternal grandmother\u2019s hair, my maternal grandmother and great grandmother\u2019s nose and my paternal grandfather\u2019s chin.\u00a0 Okay, so my dna is all mixed up \u2013 I am a true red blooded American mutt!<\/p>\n
The photos didn\u2019t just unveil family similarities; they also showed up some commonalities uniting all sides.\u00a0 I always thought my preference for pearls was a result of watching Leave It To Beaver as a child and channeling June Cleaver!\u00a0 Nope, in just about every photo a female is wearing pearls.\u00a0 I shared this insight with my daughter who just happened to be wearing pearls.\u00a0 Nice to know that trait got passed along to another generation.<\/p>\n
I also discovered that one of the great great grandpas was wearing some type of insignia.\u00a0 I never noticed it before and it\u2019s another mystery to solve.\u00a0 Taking a look back at your old photos may just lead you to more amazing family discoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 16 Jun 2016. I\u2019ve had a very strange week \u2013 genealogywise!\u00a0 It started with this recent family photo tree purchase: I always wanted to place family photos on the wall in my office but I couldn\u2019t decide which pictures to use or how to group them.\u00a0 I saw the photo … Continue reading “Photographs Unveil Information in a New Light”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[118,249],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brick-walls","tag-analyzing-records","tag-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}