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by Maureen A. Taylor
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 Monday, April 25, 2011
A Picture Pile-up
Posted by Maureen
I love unusual surnames. It's probably because my last name and many of my ancestral surnames often end up on those top 10 lists of popular names.
Laurie Clement has a great chance to identify the folks in her unidentified image. She thinks this large family group shares the surname of Burkepile.
All she needs is a date and she's on her way.
I think this could be an impromptu itinerant photo studio shot. The whole family is standing in front of a white backdrop that looks suspiciously like a sheet. Mom, Dad and seven children stare directly at the camera. There's a single boy in the back row. Finding this family in the census should be possible.
The tight dress sleeves and hairstyles suggest a date of circa 1900. It's a great picture of a family caught on the cusp of a new century.
A quick look at the 1900 federal census using HeritageQuest Online (available through many libraries) found families of Burkepiles living in Kansas, Ohio, Oregon and Pennsylvania. I didn't find any obvious matches, but Laurie and her distant cousins are working on a solution.
My fingers are crossed!
Solve your family photo mysteries with these books by Maureen A. Taylor:
Preserving Your Family Photographs
Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900
Finding the Civil War in Your Family Album
1900-1910 photos | children | group photos
Monday, April 25, 2011 8:39:36 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Help a Fellow Genealogist (Civil War-Style)
Posted by Maureen
Two weeks ago, I attended the New England Regional Genealogical Conference in Springfield, Mass. A lot of folks stopped by my booth to talk about Civil War images in their family. Several told me about locating images of their Civil War soldiers in unlikely places. If you have a story to share, please e-mail it to me or add your thoughts in the Comments section below.
One woman said she found her ancestor’s picture in a town hall. The entire unit died in battle and someone in that town collected photographs of those men from each family. The end result—a framed memorial with portraits of every man in that unit. You can look for photos of Civil War ancestors by following the tips offered in my column, Drum Roll For the Civil War.
A few months ago, I featured photos submitted by readers in Civil War Roll Call and in Civil War Roll Call Part 2.
One of those photographs was found on eBay and matched an image already owned by the family. You’ll have to look to find out which one though .
If you have a photo of your Civil War ancestor you might find my column, Deciphering A Photo, Civil War Style, helpful to learn more about the image.
I’m still trying to solve the cold case file for the pictures posted some time ago of the two men in embroidered shirts and I’m hopeful that with all things Civil War related in the news, that someone can answer the questions posed by the images in the columns Two Texas Mysteries
and Texas Twosome Revisted.
Want to know more about your family's Civil War photos? Maureen A. Taylor's book Finding the Civil War in Your Family Album is available from ShopFamilyTree.com.
Military photos
Monday, April 18, 2011 2:59:42 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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