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Chronolocation: Determining When a Photo was Taken Using Facebook, Google Street View and Assorted Tiny Details

I am not sure if this works with really old family photographs or not (probably not) but it still can be a very useful tool.  How can open source investigators determine when a photograph or video was taken? Observing the length of shadows visible in an image or clip and employing tools like Suncalc offers one useful method. But …

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Chronolocation: Determining When a Photo was Taken Using Facebook, Google Street View and Assorted Tiny Details

I am not sure if this works with really old family photographs or not (probably not) but it still can be a very useful tool.  How can open source investigators determine when a photograph or video was taken? Observing the length of shadows visible in an image or clip and employing tools like Suncalc offers one useful method. But …

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Does Your Genealogy Society Publish eBooks? If Not, They Should.

Today I stumbled across the web site of a genealogy society I probably shouldn’t name. What caught my eye was a listing of ebooks of local records the society sells on CD-ROM disks. I started thinking, why don’t more genealogy societies do the same? Even better, why don’t they sell the books online as ebooks? …

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