Finding photos of ancestors online

[Nanna52]

Not strictly a photograph but searching for possible paintings done by my 3x grandfather i found one on a website project done by the BBC to catalogue all paintings held in museums and art galleries. As I live the other side of the country from the museum/art gallery it was an unexpected find. Especially as it is one that isn't on display but in storage. 

That's how I found the painting done by my 2X great uncle Edwyn mumjo.

Must search Facebook for those communities.  Sounds interesting.

[Minimoo]

I bought a copy of a photo I found quite by chance on the Picture Sheffield website.It shows my husband's Great Grandfather standing outside his jewellery shop with his family.Including my husband's Grandfather as a small boy who went on to lose the business by "drinking away the profits" He then abandoned his wife and 4 children,including my MIL and joined the Merchant Navy. This was obviously why she put him down as deceased on her marriage certificate,though I didn't find out until I had spent hours searching for his death and why she was so anti drink.

[Finley 1]

Just came across this


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-44108230


xin

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https://lynnswaffles.com/2018/05/15/dozens-of-old-photos-but-who-do-they-belong-to-any-ideas/


shorturl.at/flsuB



another one

all worth a browse


xin

[Gillg]

There is a tree on Ancestry which has my mother's cousin and her parents' photo on it.  As far as I can see the family tree belongs to a totally different family of the same name!  I cannot trace any relationship between them and my mother's cousin whatsoever, so wonder where they got the photo from. 

[jaybelnz]

If you Google   -Picture The Past- -- you will get many different areas and photos, it even bring up some YouTube old photos and areas. 👍

[Erato]

You can also sometimes find useful photos by searching for historical photos + the name of the town where your ancestors lived.  For example, I searched for "historical photos endeavor wisconsin" and came up with two interesting items.  1) A current photo of Logan Hall which was built in 1890 and named after my g-grandfather.  It was the first building of the Endeavor Christian Academy, founded by my ancestors, and is now a private residence.  2) Two very crude sketch maps of the location of the Indian effigy mounds located around the village.  In about 1888, when my grandfather was 14, he was hired to drive the wagon for a visiting anthropologist and to assist him in measuring and mapping the mounds.  One of the maps shows the location of three burials that were discovered in the front yard of gg-uncle Cecil Chapman in 1901.

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I know I am becoming forgetful  -


But who was it ON HERE that collected Photos and had a lovely photographs site?? 

One of the earlier Rootschatters

She had a smashing off line album.

sorry but have forgotten who now..

If you go onto Ebay and generally on FB Pages sites... like the area you were born - or they were born - then often pics come up and there is always a chance it may be a rellie.



Xin

[tjugg]

I found my late mother-in-law on ebay, she was the picture on the front cover of a booklet about the house in which she lived!

Linda