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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Oldest Family Photos

It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 


Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1)  What are the oldest family photos that you have?  Can you date them?  Do you know who is in them?

2)  Show us one or more of your oldest photos and provide a date and the subjects.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.

Here's mine:

I have several sets of "oldest photos" but i'm not sure which are the oldest.

 a)  John Richman (1788-1867) of Hilperton, Wiltshire, England - print of an older photo, original perhaps about 1865:

2)  Isaac Seaver (1823-1902) and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver (1828-1884) - ambrotypes in a Union Case, about 1864:

3)  Devier J. Smith (1839-1894) and Abigail (Vaux) Smith (1844-1931) - tintype in a case, about 1869.

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8 comments:

  1. Lisa S. GorrellSaturday, April 4, 2020 at 1:43:00 PM PDT

    It's hard to date the photo if you're not sure of the identity of the people in the photo.

    https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2020/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html

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  2. Lois WillisSaturday, April 4, 2020 at 7:50:00 PM PDT

    Here's mine
    https://loiswillis.blog/2020/04/05/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-your-oldest-family-photos/

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  3. LizSaturday, April 4, 2020 at 8:26:00 PM PDT

    Here's mine:

    https://gatapleytree.blogspot.com/2020/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html

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  4. Janice M. SellersSaturday, April 4, 2020 at 11:26:00 PM PDT

    And here's mine.

    http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2020/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html

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  5. FamilyFilmFabricFoodSaturday, April 4, 2020 at 11:58:00 PM PDT

    Here is my post about my oldest family photos.

    https://familyfilmfabricfood.blogspot.com/2020/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-for-4.html

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  6. Linda StufflebeanSunday, April 5, 2020 at 6:18:00 AM PDT

    Here are my oldest family photos: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2020/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-86/

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  7. Lacie MadisonSunday, April 5, 2020 at 8:09:00 AM PDT

    These are my oldest photos: My post.

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  8. kdduncanSunday, April 5, 2020 at 7:24:00 PM PDT

    One of my oldest photographs is of my 3x great-grandfather Thomas Yarberry: https://kdduncan.blogspot.com/2015/06/thomas-n-yarberrys-photograph.html

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