Posted in Photos, tagged 1940, Bemidji, Bill Sexton, family photos, George Sexton, Minnesota, Old lawnmower on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s another photo from our family collection that I like. It’s labeled “Pa – George – Jim – Aug, 1940″ and shows my great-grandfather mowing his lawn in Bemidji, MN in 1940. He’s standing next to my grandfather’s brother George, and George’s son Jim.
(Click to see a larger version, not cropped).
There’s nothing dramatic about the [...]
Posted in Photos, tagged family photos, Deep Zoom on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post, I introduced Microsoft’s new Deep Zoom technology and showed how we could use it to zoom way in on a large family photo. This time, I’m posting a collage of 191 photos of my Dad that lets you zoom way in on each individual photo. If you’ve never seen Deep Zoom [...]
Posted in Photos, tagged family photos, Zooming, Scanning, DPI, Resolution, Deep Zoom on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One tough thing about posting family photos to the web is that you need to decide which resolution to post your photo at. If you have a high resolution photo that you’d like to post on a web page, you basically have two choices:
Option A: Resize the photo (make smaller) so that it fits on [...]
Posted in Site Reviews, tagged amiglia.com, Family history, Family History Site, Family History Site Review, family photos, Upload by e-mail or with camera phone on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent post, I included a list of genealogy-related web sites, including sub-categories for “Online Family Trees” and “Social/Family Networking”. I’m going to start reviewing the sites listed in these two categories and publish some of my findings/thoughts here. As I review each site, I’ll try to go a bit beyond just publishing a [...]
Posted in Photos, tagged family photos on August 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Grandpa Ted was into scrapbooking long before it became fashionable. You’d never have guessed it from looking at him, though. To all appearances, he was just a hard-working blue-collar guy, owner of a small printing business, and father of six. But Ted had a lifelong passion for family history and spent many years obsessively [...]
