Identify people in old photo

[LiamO25]

How can I identify people in an old photo? I’ve tried older relatives but nobody has any knowledge of them. Is there an online function?

[CaroleW]

Do you mean is there a website you can post the photos in the hope somebody recognises your relatives?

[LiamO25]

Yes or maybe something that date it  perhaps.

[Gadget]

Hi

If you can scan the photo and the back, and put them up on the Photo Board

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/free-photo-restoration/

we might be able to give you some idea of the date and possibly the area.

Gadget

[Biggles50]

Liam

It is an age old problem to which there is little chance of a resolution.

To give an example I have my Maternal Family’s album with images dated from about 1850 and our Great Grandparents and their children are known by name and identified.

Of all the others only one is known and that is more a probably than a fact as she was living with them in 1901 and appears on a photo.

A family gathering of 22 people in a park in Bradford has only my two GGP’s identified, I have probable names for everyone else with names left over but nothing positive.

All the others bar two that are in the album are a complete mystery, even my Grandmother who married into the family did not know who most of the family were.

You can date images by the clothing and the type of photograph plus if you have the image on the back is often a stamp of the Photographer who took the image and you can date it within the range that they were in business.

[Gadget]

You can date images by the clothing and the type of photograph plus if you have the image on the back is often a stamp of the Photographer who took the image and you can date it within the range that they were in business.

I've already suggested that he puts the image and back on our photo board, Biggles. I assume that you are aware that a few of us have helped many members in this way

Hi

If you can scan the photo and the back, and put them up on the Photo Board

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/free-photo-restoration/

we might be able to give you some idea of the date and possibly the area.

Gadget

[aghadowey]

Don't give up. We have several large, old albums (about 95 % of the images are unlabeled and of the few that do have something written on the back the wording is unhelpful ('mother,' 'father,' 'you'll know who this is,' etc.).
In pre-internet days I was able to contact a distant connection related to my husband's mother. I took all the photos we have belonging to her family as well as any that were taken in the place we know some of the family had lived and any that even seemed to show a family resemblance then photocopied all of the photos. After numbering them I sent this relative copies. He was then able to identify a good portion of the unknown ones with comments like 'grandfather & family,' 'grandfather's parents' and even 'don't known who they are either but we have the same picture.'