Color Your Genealogy

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If you're doing your family's genealogy, you're probably familiar with
the charts and the family trees, fan charts, lineage charts, etc.,
with all the names and dates of your ancestors. Your charts may go
back 5, 10 or 15 generations, with all the documented dates of birth,
marriage, death. But how much do you really know about those people?
Try to add a little "color" to your ancestors, by giving a fuller
picture of each person. Do you have any photos of them, any of their
belongings, or stories about them? Granted, the longer they have been
gone, the less chance you have of finding any of their things.
However, you can try to document as many of the more recent ones as
possible.
Photographs are good to show us what they looked like. If you're lucky
enough to find photos of someone from childhood through adulthood, you
will have a pretty good idea of what they looked like, as well as
possibly what other members of the family looked like. You may get an
inkling of their income level from the clothes they wore or other
items in the picture. Remember, though, that they very well could be
dressed in their best clothes, whether for the photo, or because of
the occasion. If the photo was taken by a professional photographer,
any other items in the photo may very well be the photographer's
props....

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