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• Misplaced Ancestors

  Finding old photographs with identification in hopes to reunite with their families.

• Mystery Ancestors

  Mystery Ancestors is a photo blog of unidentified old photos and tintypes. Membership is free and necessary to view all the pictures. Premium members may add their unidentified photos free. For a small fee they may advertise their website in the form of a watermark on their photo.

• Nebraska Ancestors Sharing Center

  For Nebraska vintage photos, lost & found items, mystery photos & wandering ancestors.

• Old Photographs of African Americans

  Unknown Old African American Photographs to be identified by researchers and family historians. You can post your unknown photographs here.

• Old Photos Found

  Photos found at a Flea Market. May be photos of the MILLER family, possibly from Virginia.

• Old Photos Found

  Old photos of identified person generally found at antique shops, in or near Lexington, KY.

• Old Photos Seeking New Homes - Linnie (Vanderford) Poyneer

  Austin, Baker, Boyce/Bayce, Bunce, Butterfield, Carr, Ford, Hall, Hart, Hobbs, Holmsberg, Keadle, Keadle, Lillie, Loske, Ludwig, Martin, Milton, Payne, Port, Pierce, Sinclair, Skinner, Swartout, Starke, Weller, Wise.

• Personalia

  Personalia deal in mainly British historical manuscripts, named photographs, portrait miniatures, medals and mementos of the 17th to 19th centuries. The business is specifically oriented towards historians and genealogists, and museums and archives.

• Photos Rescue!

  A book to help date old photographs, and a project to reunite photos and families, mostly Australian, some British.

• Reminiscene Vintage Postcards and Photographs

  Collection of Vintage Postcards, Victorian and Edwardian Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Portraits, and other nostalgic photographs, acquired in the United Kingdom.

• Renee's Photo Orphanage

  Unidentified photos listed by possible family connections and geographic areas.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Slices Of Time

  A site dedicated to the reunion of lost photographs (mostly from late 1800's) with their families. Photographs are purchased from antique shops around the U.S.

• The Genealogy Photo Exchange

  A UK site designed as a home for all those unidentified photos, we've all got hidden at the back of the album in the hope someone can put a name to that mystery face. Are your ancestors on here? Take a look.

• The Past on Paper

  A website linking genealogists to antique dealers and private collectors. Hundreds of family Bibles, named photos, wills, letters and diaries. Register and upload your GEDCOM to be automatically informed as items relating to your family are added.

• The Tri-City Genealogical Society - Photographs in the TCGS Lost and Found -- Identify and Claim

  Photographs found by TCGS members. Identify and claim. From the Tri-Cities, Washington, comprising Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and the surrounding communities of West Richland, Benton City, Prosser, Othello, Connell and Hermiston, Oregon.

• Tim's Genealogical Milk Carton

  Collection of old, unidentified photographs from Frederick County, Maryland and surrounding areas. Please check them out and help identify some of these people.

• Time Tales

  Found photos from America and around the world; some identified and some mystery photos.

• Unclaimed Ancestors

  A website looking to connect old lost photos, usually within the US, with families who might be searching for them. Pictures, and sometimes other media, are uploaded with a brief description of who they are and where they are from (after a little research of course). Also a host to the 1922-23 Ohio diary of Wealth Harp full of names and descriptions that other Ohio enthusiasts might find useful.

• West Georgia Unidentified Photos

  20 unidentified photos believed to be those of relatives of James Morgan RICHARDSON and his wife, Nancy Catherine McBURNETT, probably taken in Haralson and Polk Counties or surrounding localities. James Morgan Jim RICHARDSON was born 1883, possibly in Floyd County, Georgia, and died in 1953. Nancy Catherine Kate McBURNETT was born 1883 in Carroll County, Georgia, and died in 1972 in Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Stephen Joshua McBURNETT (1858-1927) and Millie Elizabeth WINKLES (1851-1941).

• World War One Photos and Postcards

  Pay for copies service of named individuals in British service found on old photos and postcards.