A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

The higher branches of our Family Tree were bare when it came to photos. Guess they were all camera shy. We wanted to represent these photo-less family members with an image on our Family Tree so they too can be brought to life. Through research we have acquired documents with signatures for many of these relatives. When you have a document signed by your relative you have a document seen and touched by your relative. It directly connects you to your relative. It makes them seem more real because they were there to sign the document. A person's signature is very unique, represents them, and shows who they are. Some print, some write in script, some are very ornate, some sign in Hebrew and some sign in Latin characters. Recently we began snipping the signatures out of the images of the documents and adding them to our Family Tree as our relatives' images. Now they can be properly represented. This is a work in progress.

Jacobson and Jacobson Genealogy Researchers  http://www.bocafengshui.com/genealogy.html
specializing in Jewish Genealogy.