Clued In: The Stories are in the Details
Sun, Nov 17
|online via Zoom
On November 17 at 1 p.m. CST via Zoom, Ava Cohn, aka Sherlock Cohn, The Photo Genealogist, will show us how to study family photos and differentiate between a clue that is useful or one that is less useful in furthering our study of genealogy.
Time & Location
Nov 17, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
online via Zoom
About The Event
How often have you looked at a family photograph and wondered how much more you could learn about your family from this photo? Beyond who is in the photo and when it was taken are the subtler clues that give us a deeper appreciation of the people who came before us. What are the relationships of the people in the photos? What were their personal and religious choices? Why was this photo taken? What messages were they trying to convey when they sat before the photographer? There is a wealth of information to be gleaned from the visual records of our mishpocha. Coupled with our handed-down family oral traditions and our found documentation, these photo discoveries can become the basis for our family stories. But is the detail we’ve found in our photo what Sherlock calls a bisl (something to ignore) or the gantze megilla (something that tells us the…