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The Photo Detective

Join The Photo Detective, Maureen Taylor, each week as she discusses historical photos and how they fit into your family history. From ancestor identification to photo preservation, The Photo Detectiv... Read more

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Finding Identity and Connection in Your Family Photographs

Finding Identity and Connection in Your Family Photographs

Today’s podcast is special. A year ago the folks at Rootstech asked me to present a Ted Style talk at the conference. O... Read more

8 May 2019

19mins

Ranked #2

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MemoryWeb

MemoryWeb

If you've ever wondered how to connect all your family photos with your genealogy, then you need to listen to this episo... Read more

20 Apr 2018

41mins

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What's New With Vivid-Pix Restore?

What's New With Vivid-Pix Restore?

The Vivid-Pix Restore fix just got even better. A new patented process makes their picture improvement add new depth to... Read more

17 Apr 2019

25mins

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Orphan Photos

Orphan Photos

In this episode Maureen unravels threads of a complex photo mystery that involves two orphan photos taken nearly 50 year... Read more

14 Jul 2017

17mins

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Old Providence - Time Travel At Your Desk

Old Providence - Time Travel At Your Desk

I love my city.  It now shows. I have a new website: https://oldpvd.com. It runs on https://chronocharts.com, an interac... Read more

29 Jan 2019

44mins

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Photo Tips & Tricks

Photo Tips & Tricks

In this episode of Ask Maureen, Maureen gives some great tips and points the way to some great resources, including some... Read more

20 Jun 2017

15mins

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Ancestry Search Tips

Ancestry Search Tips

In this episode of The Photo Detective, Julianna Szucs of Ancestry.com explains how to search this mega genealogy site. ... Read more

6 Mar 2018

38mins

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Answering Listener’s Questions

Answering Listener’s Questions

Ask Maureen Facebook Live events are your chance to ask your photo related questions.  Think about your number one conce... Read more

23 Mar 2017

13mins

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The Last Muster Journey

The Last Muster Journey

This episode focuses on my Last Muster project.  Almost two decades ago I started looking for images of individuals who ... Read more

24 Apr 2019

35mins

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Visual Face Recognition

Visual Face Recognition

Ever wish you could use facial recognition software to compare your photos? Bob Schmitt created Visual Face Recognition ... Read more

10 Apr 2019

25mins

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Wedding Clues, Rootstech Tips

Wedding Clues, Rootstech Tips

Rootstech is the largest genealogy conference in the U.S. if not the world. Seriously!  This is one conference you have ... Read more

14 Feb 2019

43mins

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RootsTech 2018

RootsTech 2018

Tara Bergeson of FamilySearch.org joined me to talk about RootsTech 2018.  They have an outstanding line-up of events in... Read more

13 Jan 2018

36mins

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MetaData & Online Posting

MetaData & Online Posting

Lantern Slides ~ What are they and what were they used for? And an example of lantern slides.Metadata - What is metadata... Read more

26 May 2017

14mins

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Civil War Photo Sleuth

Civil War Photo Sleuth

You won't believe what Civil War historian, Kurt Luther,  has created.  Civil War Photo Sleuth is a gathering place for ... Read more

19 Nov 2018

41mins

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The Last Muster

The Last Muster

After a dozen years of searching, there are still new photographs popping up. These men and women experienced the Revolu... Read more

3 Apr 2017

9mins

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My Heritage Photo Discoveries

My Heritage Photo Discoveries

Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage was my guest this month. We did a demo of one of the really cool features of their instant... Read more

1 Dec 2017

37mins

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A Word War I Resource

A Word War I Resource

My guest is James Morley, a UK based photo historians who’s created a very cool World War 1 resource called A Street Nea... Read more

22 Feb 2019

38mins

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My Family Resemblance

My Family Resemblance

A single photo of her grandmother Fannie inspired Rachael Rifkin's work. She focuses on bridging the gap between generat... Read more

3 Apr 2019

24mins

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Charting Your Family History

Charting Your Family History

Family tree charts have come a long way from the ones our nineteenth-century ancestors framed.  Janet Horvoka of Family ... Read more

20 Jan 2019

40mins

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Finding Family on Ebay

Finding Family on Ebay

Just about anything can be listed on eBay. In this episode of The Photo Detective, you'll learn how to search for family... Read more

18 May 2018

30mins

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