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If you don’t know who’s in the photo, don’t worry. Maureen has proven methods for putting names to the faces in those pictures. Methods that can tell you more about when they were taken, who took them and why. As a former curator at a historical society, she knows how to make sense of photographs and family history. Maureen’s skills live at the junction of history, genealogy and photography. This means you can count on her to help you identify the people in them, offer solutions for preserving and organizing them, and yes, even guide you in the various ways to gather and share picture stories with your relatives.
Speaker

Maureen Taylor is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. She is a contributing editor of Family Tree Magazine.

Registration opens March 1st, for members of CDGS. If there is space remaining, non-members can register starting March 12th. Registration closes at 11pm, 2 days prior to the event.

March 22, 2025

1 PM on Zoom

Dating and Identification

of Old Photos

Maureen Taylor

Helpful Hint of the Month

Duchess County

The Duchess County Clerk Ancient Document Search allows you to explore digital images of 167,000 pages of legal documents dating from 1721 to the 1840s. It is searchable by surname, year, offense, etc.!

An example: The image of an "Order of Bastardy" which shows court papers adjudging a Mr. William Parks to be the father of a female bastard child born of Freelove Birdsel, a single woman. The court paper is dated August 2, 1754.

The image is small here because of space limitations on this page, but on the official page is enlargeable and very readable.

Link to the site HERE