Archive for the 'For Your Interest' Category

Loaf Of Bread & Boy Trek Through History

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Interesting video
http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=b7e11ff8

‘Shades of the Departed’ Highlights DeadFred

Monday, September 15th, 2008

(Posted from Shades of the Departed)
Monday, September 12, 2008

September 12 - And The Guest Author Is . . .

DeadFred’s Genealogy Photo Archive
DeadFred’s relatively speaking Blog
First, and most importantly, I want to thank Footnote Maven for her kind invitation to write about my website. I’m always happy when given the chance to talk about DeadFred [...]

Expired - Unique Memorial to a Clever Lady

Friday, September 12th, 2008

This was sent to me by a friend .  Thought you might enjoy it. The caption to it reads ” A friend use to say that she wanted a parking meter that said EXPIRED..   she passed her nephew bought her one on ebay .

Maureen Taylor, Photo Detective - Wall Street Journal Article

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Last year an article on Maureen Taylor http://www.photodetective.com was run in the Wall Street Journal. Its really worth your time to check it out.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119214969916756801.html
DeadFred.com gets a mention too! But the bulk of the article is about Maureen as it should be. I say this because she is my, and many others, go-to-person when it comes to questions about [...]

DeadFred.com Wins “Top 101 Best Web Sites” from Family Tree Magazine

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

The great folks at Family Tree Magazine have selected DeadFred.com as one of the Top 101 Best Web Sites for Beginning Researchers.
Their article, by David A. Fryxell, says…
“Our annual list of the 101 Best Web Sites for genealogy has been a Family Tree Magazine staple since the beginning, but this year it occurred to us to [...]

*Dating Old Military Photos Project *

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Moorshead Magazines Ltd., publishers of Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy and Discovering Family History, is looking for old military photographs for a tentative book (similar to their bestselling Dating Old Photographs series).
If you have photos you would like to submit, and they were taken between the Mexican-American War and the end of World War One, Family [...]

British Isle Photography Project Maps UK

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

For those of you who find yourself wandering around the countryside of the British Isles taking pictures, there is now a place for you to upload all of your photos.
Geograph British Isles project (www.geograph.org.uk) aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre in Great Britain and Ireland. Already they have over [...]