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A Collection Of Pre-1930 Awkward Family Photos

This isn't genealogy-related but I suspect anyone who has spent time looking at old family photographs will appreciate these. Take a look at http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/a-collection-of-pre-1930-awkward-family-photos.

Check out the beard of the gentleman in photo #2!

My thanks to Robert Landau for telling me about these.

(+) Geotagging Photographs

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.

This may not help much with old family pictures, but geotagging can be a major addition to digital photographs. In short, geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification to digital photographs, video, websites, or even RSS feeds. The information added typically consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, but it can also include altitude, bearing, accuracy data, and place names.

Collaborative Picasa Web Albums

Picasa is one of the most popular online photo publishing services available. However, it has always been a place to publish your photos for others to see. Now Google (the owners of Picasa) have introduced Collaborative Picasa Web Albums. Every album on Picasa Web Albums is potentially collaborative: multiple people can add pictures to the same album.

You can now create a Picasa account and then your, your siblings, your cousins, and others can upload pictures to the same albums. This should be a great method of sharing family photos, whether they be from the late 1800s or from last week's family reunion.

Preserving Wedding Pictures

We live in a high-tech world, but I am not always prepared for it. Today my daughter and her new husband sent out their wedding pictures... electronically. It is a Picasa photo album on the web.

I'm thrilled that she could share those pictures so easily with friends and relatives. She doesn't need to wait for guests to come visit before she can pull out the photo album to show the pictures. Today's technology allows for fast and convenient distribution. In fact, everyone can keep a copy of as many pictures as they wish on their own computers, something not easily accomplished a few years ago.

At the same time, I have to wonder about long-term preservation.