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Story: Genealogy and family history

Faded photo

  • Faded original photo.
  • Digitally enhanced photo.

This photo has deteriorated since it was taken in the 1970s. By clicking on the right-hand thumbnail, you can get a sense of the original image, here reproduced by digital enhancement. Such clever manipulation of a photograph is not always possible and genealogists are constantly frustrated by the deterioration of old documents and photographs.

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Lovell-Smith family

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How to cite this page

David Swain, Genealogy and family history – Issues in genealogy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/27105/faded-photo (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Swain, published 7 April 2011.