Dating family pictures by knowing more about automobiles
My fourth cousin Pam Fullerton. How can knowing the make, model, and model year help us to ID this picture and approximate the date? I have two passions in life. Genealogy and automobiles. Of the two, genealogy is a relatively new avocation - I have only been at it for forty so odd years. American cars, however have fascinating me for as long as I can remember, from babyhood on up. That is fifty-five years. As a child I owned matchbox (small), Corgi (medium) and dealer promo cars (large) - all scale replica's of the real cars that real people drove. I played with them constantly, but never combining any with differing scale sizes, because I was an am OCD. OCD? Look it up and my picture will be right there. Because I am so car obsessed, and as a genealogist, historian and published author of local and regional histories, I get asked - a lot - about identifying and dating cars in the pictures. Over my lifetime I have...