The Photo Detective - Maureen Taylor

Haven’t you always wanted to know how to:

 Identify and Date Family Photographs - Learn 10 easy steps for naming those in unidentified pictures tucked away in shoeboxes.

 Tell Your Family Story—From Blogs to Print-on-Demand - There is more than one way to “write” a family history. Explore the options available in today’s marketplace and tell your family history with words, pictures, and sound.

 Discover Genealogical Clues in 19th-Century Photographs - A single photograph can unlock a family mystery. The details are in the photographic clues. Pictures document births, deaths, marriages, and more. Use an image as genealogical proof by understanding the language of family photographs.

 Preserve Family Photographs—1839 to the Present - From daguerreotypes to digital imaging dilemmas, this seminar covers everything a family photographer needs to know about caring for photographs. Topics include printing and sharing digital images, and how to safely label grandparents’ pictures.

 Learn how at the Spring Seminar!

You may register for the seminar here on our website. Members pay $40 through March 24th.  Non-members pay $50 through March 24th.  Link to register at bottom of this page.

After March 24th, prices go up by $10 for everyone; so register early.

Online registration will end after March 28th, to allow time to organize details of the seminar. 

Maureen Taylor is an internationally recognized photo identification and family history expert. She has been featured in top media outlets, including The View, Better Homes & Gardens, Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, MSNBC, New Morning (Hallmark Channel), Life Magazine, DIY: Scrapbooking, PBS Ancestors, Claritin’s Moment of Clarity, Creative Memories’ Lasting Moments, Dear Myrtle, and Satisfaction Magazine.

Maureen is the author of a number of books and magazine articles, as well as a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine. Her collection of popular books include Fashionable Folks Hairstyles 1840-1900; The Last Muster, a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographic images of the Revolutionary War generation; and Finding the Civil War in Your Family Album. Her book, Preserving Your Family Photographs, provides the information you need to care for your family photograph collection.  Maureen enjoys teaching children about their roots. She is the author of a guide to family history for kids, Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) named by Voice of Youth Advocacy to its best nonfiction list for 1999. 

Known as the Photo Detective, Maureen investigates photographs the way private eyes investigate cases. She discovers stories behind family pictures by following clues … a hat, the shape of a woman’s sleeve, or a sign in the background. Maureen offers practical, affordable advice on how to save and organize photos. She also writes about the latest photo-related topics, products, and media coverage.

Maureen appearing on

NBC Today Show

Click here to Register on line for the Spring Seminar 

OR

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Directions to the Oklahoma History Center located 
at the northeast corner of the state capitol complex at N.E. 23rd and N. Lincoln Blvd. 

1 - turn north from 23rd Street at the first street east of the capitol 
             or 
2 - turn east at the stop light at N.E. 28th and Lincoln then south on Lindsay to the Oklahoma History Center parking lot.

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