Their website makes it clear that the eight-person team at Vintage Aerial loves preserving the heritage of rural America and sharing it with anyone and everyone who cares. They’ve built a website of an amazing 18 million images and growing that anyone can access. There are also photo mysteries on the site that you might be able to solve. Identify one homestead and it unlocks the rest on the roll of film.  Anyone can sign up for an account, browse the collection, and order prints. Beware though…once you start looking at these pictures, it’s hard to stop.  My guests are Lance Roper of Customer Engagement and Fritz Beyers, President, and CEO.   We talk about how the company started and its plans for the future.  Hint:  More scanning and adding more photos is part of it. 

 

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About My Guest:

My guests are Lance Roper of Customer Engagement and Fritz Beyers, President, and CEO of VintageAerial.com

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles, and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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