Footnote Maven has honored DeadFred.com with a celebration of our 100,000th photo record in her beautifully designed Shades Of The Departed The Magazine Mouring Issue .  Thank you Linda for your kindness !
 
http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2010/10/shades-magazine-memento-mori-issue-2010.html

Using a keyword( i’e fashion, dog , beauty)  type  it into the keyword field on the home page .
Here a search for Civil War ..  using  CW in the field
http://www.deadfred.com/comments_05.php?dfpage=2&searchstr=cw

Type in a surname to see what’s new
http://www.deadfred.com/index.php

An amazing photographic addition to the history of the early Republic http://upress.kent.edu/books/Taylor_M.htm
 If there’s such a thing as a paradigm shift in the way we look at American Revolutionary War history Maureen Taylor’s  new book leads the way .  Maureen has spent years researching , compiling and bringing to life in Pictures and Genealogy the people who lived [...]

 
For 70 years, this picture has been used to tell the same story – of inequality, class division, “toffs and toughs”. As an old Etonian closes in on Downing Street, it is being trotted out again. But what was the story behind it?
Link to Ian Jacks article at moreintelligentlife.com
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ian-jack/5-boys

 
 I can across Brett Paynes Blog the other day .  He has some interesting information relating to Old Photo ..   Check it out  http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/2010/06/dating-photos-with-aid-of-trade.html
 
 

 
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I recently started to post some of my own photo’s onto flickr.com hoping to connect and make some reunions. Little did I realize how many creative people are members there.  One in particular is Barty2008 who also goes by the name of Jan ( real name). Jan lives in England .   Here is a link to her Journal [...]

Just added today - underneath the photos on the detailed results pages is an icon for sharing on facebook. Make sure you are logged in to your facebook account, then just click on the icon and you’ll be prompted to write a message (if you want) and publish your ancestor’s photo and information to your [...]

I want to share a wonderful interview about  DeadFred recently conducted by Lisa Louise Cooke  . Lisa is the producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, an audio and video genealogy show   In addition, Lisa hosts the monthly Family Tree Magazine Podcast and videocasts for Family History Expos.   She is a national genealogy speaker, and author [...]

“Is there anyone who hasn’t had a bad hair day or obsessed about the right hairdo for a special event? Probably not, and this obsession is far from a modern phenomenon. Using the clues explained in this book, you can learn a surprising amount about your ancestors by studying their portraits.”

Maureen tells us in her  most [...]