HCGS Meeting 10 Aug 2019 - Family Photos

HONOLULU COUNTY  GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

When: Saturday, August 10, 2019, 9am-noon What: Monthly Meeting of Honolulu County  Genealogical Society

Program:  “Old Family Pictures as Aids to Genealogical Research"              with Stan Jones Bring your family photographs that have  significance  in your  genealogical research. Among the many photos that members brought to the meeting, here is one shown by Donna Wendt of her great-great grandfather, Joshua Wallace.  A person bought a daguerreotype in a case at an antique show.  It had the name of Joshua Wallace inside.  He tracked down that name to Donna's blog about him and it turned out to be the mirror image that was later made from that into a "crayon" portrait.  They met in Denver and compared their pictures. The small encased daguerreotype of Joshua Wallace probably taken in 1851 when he married his 2nd wife in Indiana   Joshua Wallace large "crayon" type portrait passed down to Donna's cousin through their grandmother.  This is the way an artist could replicate a small portrait, in mirror image,  and share with numerous children, etc.