How do I find old pictures of my family?

Question

I am looking for a photo of my great grandpa William Lafeyette Ballinger and I have had not luck  I know he was from Polk County Missouri.

Answer 1

Do research "backward" and then "forward" to now living people is my advice

My experience is that sometime you are lucky and someone has a picture
I found Johansson-2375 - Magnus Johansson who is connected to me as  

His mother had on the wall the following picture

of Lindner-119 with descendants

His mothers mother was the youngest child and maybe that is the reason she got the pictures... It was 8 children and I guess that not everyone got a photo.... 

Comments

This woman are really pretty, she actually look like and angel.

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Agree Susan

And when learning her family story that she got my grandmother at age 20 working in a small town Sala. She moved back to her parents and some years she married a soldier abt. 20 years older with more children. She moved to his house and 5 months later her daughter moved "back" to the grandfather. I guess the soldier didn't like my grandmother and priority was his children.

1921 she was pregnant with child number 9 and then her husband died. In the estate and inventory we find was that all he left was a debt....

Yes the photo is nice but there are so many questions I would like to ask her....

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Thank you for telling me her story, how I love when I se a beautiful woman like her to know about her and you just treat me with her story, she must have had a hard live imagine 9 children, special when he left her with nothing, how sad that makes me to know

I know exactly how you feel about gettin questions answer. I only wish we could travel in time and have our questions repay with and answer. Thank you for telling me that was very kind of you

Answer 2

Check special sites

In Sweden we have a special site "Porträttfynd" were people upload old pictures and comment with what they know....

Example Söderala category page in WikiTree has a link to Porträttfynd search Söderala
 

I add on all Swedish Category pages links to this site with a search on the pictures from this Swedish Parish.... 

We have already found pictures of 2 people and both times those pictures was uploaded by highly skilled genealogy people. One of the uploader had written a book on the subject

• Axel Fisk - brickwall solved

Image found