Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs (Paperback)
A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians
Imprint: Pen & Sword Family History
Series: Tracing Your Ancestors
Pages: 224
Illustrations: 150 black and white illustrations
ISBN: 9781781592809
Published: 9th January 2014
Last Released: 1st March 2021
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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
As mentioned in
Wrexham Leader
The author provides both book and online references throughout to more extensive resources and there is a fair index.
The Friends of the National Archives
For its intended audience with drawers of unlabelled photos I expect it will be a mine of information.
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
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 Them, British Working Dress, Victorian Fashion and Tracing Your Ancestors through Family Photographs.
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