{"id":14599,"date":"2017-10-14T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2024-03-15T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:57:35","slug":"solved-mystery-photo-identified-genealogy-blog-picnic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/solved-mystery-photo-identified-genealogy-blog-picnic-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Solved It: My Mystery Photo Identified – Genealogy Blog Picnic Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susan Donaldson, blog author from the website, Family History Fun<\/a>, has shared this blog as part of our ongoing \u201cHow I Solved It Series\u201d.<\/p>\n

This blog\u00a0discusses how she identified family members during a genealogy potluck where people would get together to work on and discuss their family mysteries.<\/p>\n

The Genealogy Blog Party<\/a> invites us this month to a “pot luck” picnic to feature a family history issue and how we solved it.
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\nMy topic – How I broke down a brick wall and identified a mystery photograph.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFor over 10\u00a0years I puzzled over\u00a0<\/b>“Who is this striking family group?”<\/b> <\/i>
\nThe photograph mounted on heavy dark card,\u00a0came to me in 2001 in the large collection of my great aunt\u00a0Jennie, only daughter of my great grandparents James Danson and Maria Danson<\/span>nee\u00a0Rawcliffe. <\/span>of Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. Unlike many of Jennie’s photographs, she had not written anything on the back – perhaps because of the dark mount. There\u00a0was also no photographer’s details to indicate where it had been taken.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>So how did I go about solving the mystery?\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n