Photos Without Families

Another team effort here! I’m so touched every time my fellow-genealogy-detectives on Instagram and Facebook help me solve a photo mystery. My special thanks goes out to Maud! My gratitude is endless and the interaction is one of the reasons I keep digging and recording the family stories of strangers of the past. I’ve never seen a "padded" CDV like this one. It actually feels soft underneath the baby's image while it's flat in the corners. I asked around on Instagram and app

I don’t usually explicitly look for French photos simply for the reason that my French skills are very limited. But since more and more French birth, marriage and death records are available on the big international genealogy platforms, it makes research a lot easier. This beautiful woman has been identified as Marie Masson Lombard, the mother of Marcelle and Georges. I figured either Masson or Lombard was her maiden name, and that the photo was taken in the 1880s. And I foun

I don’t get many French family photos, mainly for the reason that I don’t speak French and am not familiar with French sources of...