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Title: Way to Approximate What Ancestor Looks Like?
Post by: teris1958 on Saturday 15 July 23 19:12 BST (UK)

Hello everyone.  I have a photo of a GG-grandmother and one of her sons.  Also a photo of a GGG-grandmother in the same line. 

Is there a website or app where photos can be loaded and would be able to approximate what other siblings of the same son (mentioned above) might look like?  One of those siblings is my GG-grandfather and it would be fascinating to get at least some general idea of what he might've looked like.  This would be in the early 1800s.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Way to Approximate What Ancestor Looks Like?
Post by: aghadowey on Saturday 15 July 23 21:02 BST (UK)

I can't see that such a thing, if it exists, would be any use. For example, I look very much like my paternal grandmother, her mother and a 3rd cousin. My sister looks more like our maternal aunt than she does our mother. My father and his brothers look nothing like each other and my mother & four sisters all looked different (and none of them looked like their own mother). I'm sure almost all of us can thing of numerous examples in their own family.

Title: Re: Way to Approximate What Ancestor Looks Like?
Post by: Hackstaple on Saturday 15 July 23 23:45 BST (UK)

In the early 1880's there were no photographs. The first photograph was 1827 and the first relatively easy process came along in 1844 but photography was an arcane subject until the 1850's.  But I really think you mean the early 1900's?

Title: Re: Way to Approximate What Ancestor Looks Like?
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 16 July 23 00:02 BST (UK)

I agree with aghadowey.

I don’t see the point of this. You might as well find a photo of a stranger on the internet of the approximate age and era and say it is your gg grandfather. You know it isn’t and it would be the same for any hybrid photo you could concoct.

May be a bit of fun, but nothing more.

My Heritage do animations, colourisation etc with photos, but I don’t think they do anything like what you are after.

You could try posting the photos on the photo restoration board to see if any of the clever people on there could work some magic.

Added: I have family members who look completely different - my daughters are the most recent generation - they have similar eye colour, but nothing else suggests they are even related let alone sisters. DNA tests prove we are all related though.  :)

Title: Re: Way to Approximate What Ancestor Looks Like?
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Sunday 16 July 23 13:20 BST (UK)

  I quite agree - my mother and her sister were quite different in looks. Mum was quite tall, big boned, with a square face (which she hated!) while her sister was shorter, bird-like and with a pointed face.