Maureen Alice Taylor

Discusses genealogy, the study of one's family, examining how such an interest develops, how to get started, how to use family stories and keepsakes, where to get help, and the positive effects of such study.

"Do you want to find photos of your family but you are not sure where to go? Do you feel overwhelmed by internet searches? Maureen Taylor, "The Photo Detective" and author of Preserving your family photographs and Family photo detective, guides you, step by step, through the many photo search options. She shares tips learned as a professional photo researcher, and directs you to the best photo archive websites and more" -- Publisher's description....

Genealogist and photo identification/preservation expert reveals information you can learn from family photographs about a person's fashion sense and character. Taylor writes for those interested in using "this handy guide to study the tresses and trims in your ancestral portraits and learn when different hairstyles and facial hair were in vogue." Her analysis of sample photographs from each decade illustrates how people can use "clues of clothing...

"This compelling narrative reads more like a novel than a family history, covering ten descendants of Michael Metcalf and twelve descendants of Edward Small--two men who emigrated from England in the 1630s. Detailed biographical profiles bring to life the struggles of co-author Peter Small's two great-grandfathers who both began as farmers in rural Maine but whose lives took very different and dramatic turns thereafter."--Dust jacket.