{"id":11218,"date":"2011-04-10T20:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T02:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T02:04:41","slug":"maureen-taylor-the-photo-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11218","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is excerpted from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ric.edu\/whatsnews\/details.php?News_ID=1297\"> an article just posted on the Rhode Island College website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maureen Taylor \u201978, sees the world through a wide-angle lens. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ric.edu\/whatsnews\/details.php?News_ID=1297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MaureenTaylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Maureen Taylor (Photo: Erik Jacobs Photography)\" width=\"200\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While in school, the Rhode Island College graduate found herself drawn to history, photography and genealogy. But while the majority of her peers earned degrees and went on to work in their own specified, niche fields, Taylor was fusing her experiences and interests into something more.<\/p>\n<p>Maureen Taylor now operates at the center of the unlikely venn diagram her primary interests create. She is an internationally recognized expert on the intersection of those three passions: history, photography and genealogy. That is, Taylor uses her deep knowledge of American history to analyze family photographs, gleaning clues from them to help clients learn more about their ancestors. <\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, she goes by the title, \u201cThe Photo Detective.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Having authored and published three books \u2013 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=545\">Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyrootspublishing.com\/store\/product_view.php?id=544\">Preserving Your Family Photographs<\/a>\u201d \u2013 and regularly hosting a variety of seminars on her expertise, it was inevitable that Taylor\u2019s devotion to her work would lead herto her own family tree. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned a few fun things about my family,\u201d she said. \u201cOn my mother\u2019s side, my ancestors were amongst the first settlers in Quebec. On my father\u2019s side of the family, there are a lot of dead ends, but it appears they were from Ireland.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ric.edu\/whatsnews\/details.php?News_ID=1297\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is excerpted from an article just posted on the Rhode Island College website. Maureen Taylor \u201978, sees the world through a wide-angle lens. While in school, the Rhode Island College graduate found herself drawn to history, photography <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11218\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11222,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}