Shermanwasaterrorist
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- Nov 2, 2016
- Location
- The Great State of GEORGIA!
After extensive genealogical research I've discovered that I'm the oldest and next to last living male descendant (have a younger brother) of a CSA pvt who fought at Shiloh and succumbed to disease not long after. The soldier is actually my GGG Grandfather paternal side. He and his 2 brothers were CSA soldiers they survived and each of their wives receved pensions also verified. I don't want to bore everyone with my family history so, let's, for the sake of time, just sum it up with I've known very very little about anyone on my paternal side nor, did I really care until I retired and my ACW obsession grew into whatever an obsession to the 10th power is called.
My GGG Grandfather actually had a photo taken and the photo is very well known. I've seen it posted on this forum. My question(s) are.
1. How would I go about acquiring the actual photo? I'm not sure where the original resides. It is part of the Library of Congress collection I'm assuming it's physically in their archives but, not sure how that works. The picture can be viewed at LOC website.
2. His photo was made sometime between 1861and April 1862. Would it have been copyright protected?
3. I have created an entire genealogical record which verifies the relation so, do I have any ownership claim?
4. If any of you have ever discovered your ancestors had physical property still around but, that property was in the hands of non related others and/or entities are selling for profit your relatives image or property what would you do? What did you do?
If there's a way to acquire the photo my goal would be to donate to a Shiloh museum. Any response is greatly appreciated.
My GGG Grandfather actually had a photo taken and the photo is very well known. I've seen it posted on this forum. My question(s) are.
1. How would I go about acquiring the actual photo? I'm not sure where the original resides. It is part of the Library of Congress collection I'm assuming it's physically in their archives but, not sure how that works. The picture can be viewed at LOC website.
2. His photo was made sometime between 1861and April 1862. Would it have been copyright protected?
3. I have created an entire genealogical record which verifies the relation so, do I have any ownership claim?
4. If any of you have ever discovered your ancestors had physical property still around but, that property was in the hands of non related others and/or entities are selling for profit your relatives image or property what would you do? What did you do?
If there's a way to acquire the photo my goal would be to donate to a Shiloh museum. Any response is greatly appreciated.