Category Archives: Photos

Surname Saturday – Konarski

Posted on 2 February 2013 by

I was reminded of Surname Saturday and thought I’d give it a try.  I’m going to start out with my own surname, Konarski.  Konarski is a Polish name.  The root “kon” comes from the Polish word for horse, koń.  There … Continue reading →

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Victorians Smiling

Posted on 19 June 2012 by

Victorians Smiling | Retronaut RootsMagic posted this on Facebook, but I had to pass it along.  The web site Retronaut has a set of pictures of people from the Victorian times smiling.  It’s not that people didn’t smile back then, … Continue reading →

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NGS 2012 Conference Day 2 #ngs2012

Posted on 10 May 2012 by

I had another good day at the National Genealogical Society conference today.  Highlights: I spent the morning at a four-hour session called Photo Detecting 101 with Maureen Taylor.  Analyzing old photos is a much bigger topic than can be squeezed … Continue reading →

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Age progression and genealogy

Posted on 27 April 2012 by

Today I read this article (Philadelphia man finds self on missing children’s website – CNN.com) about an adopted man who discovered that he had been a missing child.  He found this out when looking at age progression photos on Missingkids.com.  … Continue reading →

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Photo analysis – Casper Schick’s Ash Creek Inn — with footnotes

Posted on 7 January 2012 by

This is a copy of my post from December 29.  I have added citations to back my assertions as an experiment after reading Michael Hait’s blog posting My last word on GeneaBlogging and the Paradigm Shift.  I will write about what … Continue reading →

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Identifying the car at Casper Schick’s Ash Creek Inn

Posted on 1 January 2012 by

Several days ago I posted my analysis process for the picture of my grandfather in front of the Ash Creek Inn in Fairfield, CT.  I left one part open, though, and that was the model and year of the car.  … Continue reading →

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Photo analysis – Casper Schick’s Ash Creek Inn

Posted on 29 December 2011 by

One of the mystery pictures that has bothered us for a while is one of our grandfather sitting in a car in front of an inn, the Ash Creek Inn run by Casper Schick.  The photo can be seen below.  … Continue reading →

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Identifying the location of a picture with city directories and Bing Maps

Posted on 10 December 2011 by

My sister sent me this photo from the family archives.  It wasn’t labeled, but we figured it was probably our great-grandfather Charles Menegay.  The trick was the figuring out where it was taken.  It was a few years before we … Continue reading →

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