**THIS PRESENTATION WILL NOT BE RECORDED **

This new presentation in the “Clued-In” series will set the record straight on the many myths about Jewish family photographs that, despite many years of presenting facts, still flourish on social media and in general genealogy groups. Participants will learn the real reason why our relatives did not smile in their photographs, why first impressions can be misleading, why guessing is not always the best way to answer a Facebook inquiry, why Jewish photographers did not take post mortem photographs, what did photographs really cost and why they were not just for the wealthy, did our ancestors borrow the clothes in their photographs and much more. This presentation aims, in a light-hearted way, to dispel the myths and the bubbe meises so that we can truly see and understand our photographs correctly as our relatives meant for us to do.

Ava Cohn, aka Sherlock Cohn, The Photo Genealogist, is an internationally-known, go-to expert on Jewish family photographs with an ever-growing list of clients from Europe, America, Israel, Canada, Australia and other countries. A Brandeis University graduate, her background includes the study of decorative arts, photography history, and costume/theatre history. Ava has studied at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Since 2009, she has specialized in accurate dating, locating and identifying individuals in photographs with an emphasis on immigrant and Eastern European culture and traditions. She is a popular speaker and a collector of 19th and early 20th century photographs. Ava has traced her own family to Canada, Romania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in addition to various places in the United States.