The Photo Detective
Summary: **About Maureen Taylor:** Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at https://maureentaylor.com.
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Podcasts:
Tara Bergeson of FamilySearch.org joined me to talk about RootsTech 2018.
Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage was my guest this month. We did a demo of one of the really cool features of their instant discoveries option. Follow along as Daniel and I discuss how to get the most out of your Premium Plus or Complete MyHeritage.com subscription.
I had the opportunity to interview Beth Forester of https://animoto.com where we discussed the power of video and family history.
In this episode we take a look at how I use Animoto to create family history and house history videos. I give a live photo consult on a picture submitted by a viewer, then I discuss scanning tintypes.
In this episode of Ask Maureen, Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective, shares: what do you see in a photo; photo preservation tips; big surprise for next month; Extreme Genes' discussion on houses in photos and reverse genealogy and photographs. Thank you for listening!
Google's "We Wear Culture" project, the solar eclipse, and photo dating clues.
In this episode Maureen unravels threads of a complex photo mystery that involves two orphan photos taken nearly 50 years apart and newspaper clippings spanning 16 years all discovered together in one frame. She also weighs in on the recent Amelia Earhart photo mystery. If you are curious how a photo consult works, this episode of Ask Maureen provides a glimpse behind the curtain to see what Maureen can help you to discover. (Visit https://maureentaylor.com/ask-maureen-episode-7/ for more details and to view the pictures.)
In this episode of Ask Maureen, Maureen gives some great tips and points the way to some great resources, including some recent podcast appearances. What do you do with that box of photos with no names? How do you scan originals vs. slide copies? How should you deal with old black paper photo albums? Plus, you are invited to help The Photo Detective by participating in a survey about photo ID problems. Can you help?
Metadata and online-posting best practices are the focus of this episode. What is metadata and why is important? What are the ethics and etiquette of photo sharing? Maureen also answers a question, with a cool example, about lantern slides.
After a dozen years of searching, there are still new photographs popping up. These men and women experienced the Revolutionary War period and lived long enough to be photographed. Do you have one in your collection? Listen in to learn more about The Last Muster project.
Ask Maureen Facebook Live events are your chance to ask your photo related questions. Think about your number one concern. Is it unidentified images? Preserving photos? Organizing them for the next generation? Or maybe you want to know more about sharing pictures. Go ahead and ask. I'm listening. You can submit your question here. Here are this month's answers to questions from followers.
Maureen answers several great questions about identifying Orphan Photos, Conservation of Photos printed on Fabric, looking for clues in tin-types and locating information about old photo studios. Additionally, she provides some terrific resources for finding more ancestral photos and uploading photos to Ancestry.com.
I held my first Facebook Live event on January 26th. In this episode, I answered some questions submitted by my readers.
