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Looking for Pictures: Check Out Historical Society Publications
A couple of months ago I visited the Indiana Historical Society and created a short video of their Destination Indiana project. You can view it on my YouTube Channel. As I was leaving members of the...
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Picture Hanging Help
I don’t know about you, but the whole process of hanging pictures on my walls makes me a little nervous. I hate making holes in the wallpaper and then finding out that I’ve made a mistake. A fairly new...
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Queries and Answers: Photocopy Woes
Will wrote with two questions: Some 15 years ago, someone in the family lost the lone original of a cherished family photo from 1880. We have the photocopy in black and white. First, could this be...
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Queries and Answers: Look Alikes
Andrea wrote: Between my second cousin and I, we have about a dozen photos of two sisters that are two years apart in age, b. Dec 1865 and Feb 1868. We have a few that we are certain are a one or the...
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Weekend at the Museum: Armchair Travel into the Past
I’m one of those tourists that isn’t content to just view the scenery, I want to see what the area looked like years ago too. This means I have a small collection of nineteenth century travel guides...
View ArticleQueries and Answers: Photographic Value
A recent sale of photograph’s at Christie’s auction brought in 7.5 million dollars. The items sold included a set of Edward Curtis photos of American Indians. If you’ve ever wondered how much a...
View ArticleNew Website: AskMaureenTaylor.com
I’m really happy about the changes to my business and I hope you’ll be too. This week I launched a new website, www.askmaureentaylor.com. It’s to ask all your photo related questions so go ahead and...
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Holiday Gift for Someone Special
Now you can order a gift for a special someone. Send me a digital scan of a photo (at least 300 dpi, color) by clicking on the “Upload Photo” button on the right. I’ll combine the photo and my...
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A Revolutionary Trio: Eleazer Blake
Fitzwilliam and Rindge, New Hampshire are lovely towns situated on country roads. A blurry picture of Revolutionary War veteran, Eleazer Blake led me there. I arrived with Vermissima Productions on a...
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A Revolutionary Trio: Agrippa Hull
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It’s a picturesque town in the Berkshires. It is home to the Norman Rockwell Museum and where the sculptor Daniel Chester French once lived. It is also where Revolutionary...
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A Revolutionary Trio: Molly Ferris Akin
An old Akin Family Association newsletter story mentioned Molly Ferris Akin. Did the young Quaker woman really sneak into the British encampment and fire a musket? If so, then she supposedly alerted...
View ArticleEpisode 26: Making The Last Muster Movie
It’s true. Three of the profiles in The Last Muster series are now short documentary films, called A Trio of Revolutionary Voices. Pamela Pacelli Cooper, President of Verissima Productions and her...
View ArticleEpisode 27: DNA And Your Photos
Raise your hand if you’ve taken a DNA test or given one to a family member. Joining me this week is Diahan Southard, Your DNA Guide. She’s among the industry leaders teaching us about how to use...
View ArticleA Box of Trouble
In the late 1970s, my mother decided to organize her pictures. It was way before acid and lignin free materials were readily available. In fact, product advertising was often misleading. She decided it...
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Time Travel is Real (Sort of)
Name a show with time travel as a theme. I’ve likely seen it. A book with time as a plot. I’ve likely read it. There is something fascinating about the whole idea of actually stepping back into the...
View ArticleOld Maumer, 107 yrs.
Several years ago I purchased this image at a photo show. It called to me from a case. “Find my story.” “Name me.” So I bought the image intrigued by the research possibilities. She’s in my book,...
View ArticleA Convenient Place?
I have a story that will make you sick. Not literally of course, but as soon as I heard it my stomach flipped. We’re all struggling with photo overload. Our parents. Our stuff. It’s a lot. So in an...
View ArticleEpisode 28: Charting Your Family History
Subscribe to the podcast here: Family tree charts have come a long way from the ones our nineteenth-century ancestors framed. Janet Horvoka of FamilyChartmasters.com joins me to chat about charts....
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A Revolutionary Trio: Molly Ferris Akin
An old Akin Family Association newsletter story mentioned Molly Ferris Akin. Did the young Quaker woman really sneak into the British encampment and fire a musket? If so, then she supposedly alerted...
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3 Ways to Weed Your Photo Collection
By now you’ve either watched an episode of the Marie Kondo series on joyful cleaning or know someone who has. My drawers are now full of neatly folded clothes. I get it. We have too much stuff, but...
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