{"id":16777,"date":"2016-09-21T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=16777"},"modified":"2017-01-31T11:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:21:32","slug":"newspapers-help-identify-an-old-family-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/newspapers-help-identify-an-old-family-photo.html","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers Help Identify an Old Family Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was searching in GenealogyBank and quickly found the announcement of my grandparents\u2019 wedding in 1922.<\/p>\n

\"Marriage<\/a>
Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 August 1922, page 27<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn\u2019t know that my grandmother\u2019s cousin, Eloise M. Jordan<\/a>, was the \u201cmaid of honor\u201d \u2013 and who was Arthur M. Twaddle, the best man? I\u2019ll have to find more information about him.<\/p>\n

The wedding announcement said that after my grandparents\u2019 honeymoon, \u201cthey will make their home at 31 Edwards Street\u201d in Laconia, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

A quick Google search brings a photo of that house right up. I can use Google to see the front and side view of their home.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Google Street View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And there it is \u2013 the evidence I need to finally identify the location of an old family photograph.<\/p>\n

The Google Street View gives me the clues I need to identify that photo\u2019s location: the porch \u2013 the stairs \u2013 the column \u2013 the separated green latticework.<\/p>\n

Now look closely at that old family photograph, an early photo of my mother: Eleanor Frances (Huse) Kemp.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Thomas Jay Kemp, family photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The matching porch behind her is pretty easy to see. Notice the latticework behind her shoulder and to her right \u2013 with the white panel separating the two sections. That also matches the Google Street View. The step count is the same. The screening is long gone and white railings have been added – but, I can reasonably conclude that this photo of her was taken while she was pushing the baby carriage from just outside the porch of her childhood home at 31 Edwards Street in Laconia, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Clues \u2013 clues \u2013 clues.<\/p>\n

This discovery began with the address I found in my grandparents\u2019 1922 wedding announcement in the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Newspapers record the stories of every day of our ancestors\u2019 lives. Each of them contains the essential clues that let us document our old family photographs, and fill in the fabric and details of their lives.<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, with the priceless clues they contain, are your essential go-to source for your old family stories.<\/p>\n

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