Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
The surnames I am researching are: James, Kinney, Banks, Charleston, Royston, Watson, Massie and Patton. Most family are African American although there are some Native American (of unknown tribe) and Caucasian.