Family Search Compare-a-Face

[Ruskie]

This reminds me of some app my daughter was using on her phone the other day. A picture of our puppy was identified as "cattle". 

Annie, I think many people don't look past the hair - which may be why people have compared you to those two 'stars'.   

[Rosinish]

This reminds me of some app my daughter was using on her phone the other day. A picture of our puppy was identified as "cattle". 

I think a 'Scot' would know the difference 

Annie, I think many people don't look past the hair - which may be why people have compared you to those two 'stars'.    

I haven't fallen out with anyone for a long while but may be due to now     

Seriously, it's comical & yes I actually agree, the hairstyles were probably the focus of those charming chaps, a 'Major' thing where Farah was concerned 

Annie

[Mart 'n' Al]

Rosinish, after the comparison it asks if you want to keep the photographs on the site. Unless one is really paranoid I think it is safe to assume that they are not kept.  You could always experiment by uploading pictures that aren't of you or your family.

Martin

[LizzieL]

I just tried with a single photo of my husband when he was about 10, his mother (then in her mid forties) and his maternal grandparents (then in their early seventies). It was a scan of a postcard sized black and white photo taken in about 1960 of the four of them standing in a line at the seaside. It was not a profession photo, but taken by my OH's father with a Box Brownie, so not of best quality and clarity. As it was full length photo, the faces were very small
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The software first managed to pick out the four faces from the composite photo, my OH had a 61% match to his mother (he seemed to look more like his mother when younger, but getting more like his father now) and a 36% match to both his grandparents. I'm surprised there was no difference there, I thought he looked a bit more like his grandfather than grandmother.

[LizzieL]

Just tried another photo of grandma, probably a year or so earlier in the summer so granny isn't wearing a hat. Again OH has a 36% match to grandma. The other person in the picture is his aunt (his mother's older sister). He has a 50% match to her.

Could waste all day on this!

[LizzieL]

Just compared OH's mother to her sister and her mother. She has 95% match with her sister - they did look very much alike - 69% match with her mother and 59% match with her father.

That's another 8 minutes I won't get back!

[LizzieL]

Just compared m-i-l at mid forties to a picture of her in early twenties. It was a picture taken of and her work colleagues - she was the only female (office clerk) the others were mill workers, foreman,  manager and owner. She had an 82% match to her younger self, and 10 - 14 % match to most of the others in the picture who would not be related, but she did have a 33% match to one of the young men, who is also likely to be unrelated. But it was a was a small place in Suffolk, so she might have been working at the same place as a distant cousin and not known it.

[Ruskie]

This reminds me of some app my daughter was using on her phone the other day. A picture of our puppy was identified as "cattle". 

I think a 'Scot' would know the difference 

Annie, I think many people don't look past the hair - which may be why people have compared you to those two 'stars'.    

I haven't fallen out with anyone for a long while but may be due to now     

Seriously, it's comical & yes I actually agree, the hairstyles were probably the focus of those charming chaps, a 'Major' thing where Farah was concerned 

Annie

Ha ha Annie. That puppy is a Scottish breed too, so I'm sure you are right!

I was also considering people who say that my daughter looks like my sister. They have no facial similarities at all, but they do both have the blonde hair.  No offence intended ... 

[LizzieL]

Me aged 23 has a 63% match with my brother aged 4, but only a 43% match to my brother aged 9, but the latter isn't a very clear picture of him. I only have a 94% match to a picture of myself taken a few minutes after the first, but in one I was looking down rather than straight at the camera