Ancestry photos

Identifying old family photographs does not have to be impossible! Tips to identify your ancestors and discover your family history in old family photos.

It is wonderful to uncover the facts of an ancestor's life, but putting a face to a name is the most amazing discovery of all. Find out where to look for ancestor photos.

Free genealogy search for your family history in photos. Search by surname, state, country and more. If you find a photo of a family member owned by the archive, we'll send it to you free!

Here are some ideas of places to search for family photos.

Do you have a hard to find ancestor? See how I found my missing grandfather and more relatives than I could have hoped for!

When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull out a photo album, scrapbook, slides, family film and video, or those love letters in shoeboxes tied-up with string.

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John of Gaunt, Shakespeare's 'time honoured Lancaster', was the fourth but third surviving son of King Edward III and Phillipa of Hainault. Gaunt is an anglicized version of his birthplace of Ghent