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10 Easy Steps to Organizing Family Photos (part 1)

An article by Lorine McGinnis Schulze.

10 Steps to Scanning, Preserving and Sharing Your Photos (Part 1)

An article by Lorine McGinnis Schulze.

10 Steps to Scanning, Preserving and Sharing Your Photos (Part 2)

An article by Lorine McGinnis Schulze.

1000memories - Bring your past into the present

1000Memories is a shoebox of sorts that anyone can use free of charge to post photos, documents, stories, etc. and make their family history available to others. They have an app, free, for your Iphone to turn it into a portable scanner, which can be very handy.

19th Century Photographs | Restoration and Research Tools for Genealogists

PhotoTree.com presents free photo research tools and information. A searchable gallery of 1,000 images and weekly case studies help the genealogist date their own pictures.

Ask Maureen Taylor

If you could ask me just ONE question about Photo Identification or preserving those precious family photographs, what would it be?

Dating Card Mounted Photographs

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Family Photographs But Didn't Know Who To Ask

From the About.com genealogy section.

Family Old Photos.... antique images and vintage photographs ... faces and places in the past

More than 15,000 photographs, representing over 29,000 surnames. Fully indexed and searchable; updated frequently.

Family Photoloom

Online family photo-history service that provides easy-to-use tools for identifying people in pictures and cross-linking to genealogy, and features unique 'Extended Relationship Indexing.'

Fold3 - Historical Photographs ^FREE

Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Genealogy Research | Find Your Ancestors | Find My Family Photo

Brief articles about family photos.

Genealogy.com - Photographs and the Holidays

Article by Maureen Taylor.

Genealogy.com - Using Photos in Your Research

Article by Lyman D. Platt, Ph.D.

Maureen Taylor.com

An internationally recognized photo identification and family history expert. The author of a number of books and magazine articles, she offers a range of dynamic, interactive seminars on photographs, genealogy, and history.

Old Photo Archive

OrganizedPhotos.com

Photo Organizing the Easy Way: Simple tips to organize photographs, negatives and memories.

Organizing Photos

A blog dedicated to help you organizing and preserve your photos better.

Photo Detective with Maureen A. Taylor

A blog hosted Family Tree Magazine.

Photo-Sleuth

A series of articles about old photographs, photographers and their subjects, from a family history perspective.