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Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs (ePub)

A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians

Family History > Types of Records P&S History > Social History

By Jayne Shrimpton
Imprint: Pen & Sword Family History
Series: Tracing Your Ancestors
File Size: 110.1 MB (.epub)
Pages: 212
Illustrations: 150 black and white illustrations
ISBN: 9781473831827
Published: 9th January 2014

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Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past and into the lives of the individuals who are portrayed in them.

Almost every family and local historian works with photographs, but often the fascinating historical and personal information that can be gained from them is not fully understood. They are one of the most vivid and memorable ways into the past.

This concise but comprehensive guide describes the various types of photograph and explains how they can be dated. It analyses what the clothes and style of dress can tell us about the people in the photographs, their circumstances and background.

Sections look at photographs of special occasions – baptisms, weddings, funerals - and at photographs taken in wartime, on holiday and at work. There is advice on how to identify the individuals shown and how to find more family photographs through personal connections, archives and the internet - and how to preserve them for future generations.

Jayne Shrimpton's handbook is an authoritative, accessible guide to old photographs that no family or local historian can be without.

As featured in The Argus.

Featured in

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine - Issue 180, Summer 2021

Author featured as expert in 'Your Q&As: advice'

Family Tree, October 2019

Author article 'How To Date Your Family Photos' as featured by

Family Tree, August 2019

Author listed as expert in 'Your Family Mysteries Solved' feature

Family Tree, January 2019

Author listed as expert in 'Your Family Mysteries Solved' feature

Family Tree, December 2018

Author article 'Christmas Family Photos' as featured by

WDYTYA? magazine, December 2018

Author article on 'Beach photographs' as featured by

WDYTYA?, July 2018

Author featured as expert in 'Your Q&As: advice'

Family Tree, July 2018

Author featured as expert in 'Your Q&As: advice'

Family Tree, June 2018

Author featured as expert in 'Your Q&As: advice'

Family Tree, May 2018

Author article part of the Social History feature 'Going to the pictures' as featured in

Discover Your Ancestors, issue 7

Author featured as expert in 'Your Q&As: advice'

Family Tree, April 2018

Author featured as expert part of 'Your Q&A' feature

Family Tree, January 2018

As featured in 'useful sources' part of author article on studio portrait

WDYTYA? December 2017

As featured in.

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine August 2016

As featured in.

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine August 2016

As featured in.

Family Tree Magazine July 2016

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Wrexham Leader

The author provides both book and online references throughout to more extensive resources and there is a fair index.
For its intended audience with drawers of unlabelled photos I expect it will be a mine of information.

The Friends of the National Archives

A useful, concise but comprehensive reference book which will assist historians in gaining an insight into the lives of their ancestors through surviving photographs from the 1840s to the 1940s.

Essex Family Historian

Both highly informative and hugely inspiring.

Bedfordshire Family History Society

This is a thorough and thoroughly useful guide, which will appeal to family history researchers of all levels of competency.

Your Family Tree

An excellent springboard into the world of interpreting and understanding the origins of your ancestors' photos in the context of the time they lived. Just like our family photos, it's a real treasure.

Family Tree Magazine

A very useful reference book for anybody wishing to delve into the history of their family photos. If you've long wondered about who it is in one of your old family photographs, this is a great primer to help you get started finding out.

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine
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 Jayne Shrimpton

About Jayne Shrimpton

Jayne Shrimpton is a professional fashion historian and internationally-known ‘photo detective’ with a MA degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. A former Curator at the Heinz Archive and Library, National Portrait Gallery, London, she is an independent image consultant, speaker, author and magazine columnist, working primarily in the family history arena. She dates photographs at public events and advises on celebrity photographs, also appearing on-screen for BBC TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? Her books include Family Photographs and How to Date ThemBritish Working DressVictorian Fashion and Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs.

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