About
Relatively Speaking is a news and information blog from DeadFred.com. Dead Fred’s Genealogy Photo Archive, is a free, fun photo genealogy research web site devoted to helping you visualize your heritage.
Categories from the blog include articles from Sally Jacobs, The Practical Archivist, our Words from the Reunited which show photos actually found by people searching their roots, Photo of the Month Spotlight, Mystery photos, and our popular Dead Ringers where we find an old photo in our database that looks like a celebrity and let YOU decide who it looks like. But there’s always more, including a list of all the latest names added to the database over the past 30 days, articles For Your Interest and news From the Archivists.
Here are the people who have helped make Dead Fred what it is today. From Joe’s passion for old photos, to Eric and Amanda’s technical and creative imaginations, and Jeannette’s words and research. Not so much founders or owners, but rather known as the Archivists at DeadFred.com.
Joe Bott
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Amanda Shertzer
Amanda also works full-time for her company Code Poetry, Inc., which provides programming services for other businesses. |
Jeannette Balleza
Copywriter Jeannette Balleza writes and edits promotional materials for DeadFred.com and related projects. With public relations as her primary focus, she assists in marketing and advertising efforts to both attract support and generate awareness for the site. |
Raised in the Fairview section of Camden in Southern New Jersey, Joe Bott is married to Laurie Bott and has four children named Nathan, Jeremy, Matthew and Andrew. He is our resident Renaissance man. A husband, father, grandfather and Manager of Research and Development at Tyson Foods, Inc., he is also the avid photograph collector and mastermind behind DeadFred.com. After accumulating thousands of old photos over the past 30 years, Joe decided to transform his hobby into a full-time activity for his retirement. Now DeadFred.com is a popular public resource for people like you to explore the past through pictures.
Our authority on integrated web databases, Amanda develops the countless codes that govern DeadFred.com. She ensures accurate and convenient searches for our visitors every time.
