Fannie Moone Onderdonk: Identifying a Civil War-era photo using a Civil War-era signature album
My g-g-aunt Marion Irene BIRD (1839-1903) kept a signature album where friends and family recorded poems and wishes to be remembered. My uncle, who owns the signature album, allowed me to scan it a number of years ago. Many names in the album were easily identified as Marion's siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins with ties to Warrenville, Illinois. Some of the names were totally unfamiliar, though. Who were those people? I recently determined that the next step for that album was to assemble the individual images into a single PDF that could be uploaded to FamilySearch Memories. This act not only helped identify the unknown connections in the signature album, it also became a critical link in identifying unlabeled images in a photo album of Marion's that had been donated to the Warrenville Historical Society . 1840 Map of Orleans County, New York Dave Rumsey Map Collection Marion was one of eight children born to Frederick Bird and Louisa Goddard Warren. Her father died wh