Profiling Portraits: Family Groups in Pictures By Kristi Finefield In this latest entry in our occasional series, Profiling Portraits , I was inspired by an attempt to take a group photo during a recent family visit, as well as time spent looking through photo albums at previous years' similar efforts. Family photos tend to evoke memories, elicit questions about older ancestors and of course provide a record of your relatives. I find it interesting to view family photos, even of families not my own, to see what they suggest about the family, about relationships between the members, about the individuals, about the time period or circumstances. Like any group portrait, but with the added factor of familial ties, family photos convey more than just the faces of those depicted! Explore an array of photos of families large and small, some famous and some not at all, drawn from many tim
