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PICRYL is a massive public-domain search engine with over 25 million images, making it one of the largest free visual history platforms in the world. While most genealogists have never heard of it, PICRYL can provide something that traditional genealogy databases cannot: Photographs and illustrations that visually reconstruct the world your ancestors lived in.
Even if you never find a photograph of an ancestor, PICRYL lets you discover images that show what their world actually looked like. This Quicksheet explains how to search PICRYL effectively, where genealogical clues hide, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
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