Family Search Compare-a-Face

[Maiden Stone]

I tried a horned sheep we saw last week, and it just said, "Something happened.  Try another picture."

Martin

You'll need to try 2 related sheep and see what it says then. Sheep can recognise pictures of faces of their friends, relatives and shepherds. They can also learn to recognise pictures of other humans. I expect this FS programme has been devised and is operated by some clever sheep. 

[LizzieW]

I wrote to Familysearch to ask how to remove images loaded to Compare-a-Face, I could only see how to remove my own image.  They responded with instructions but also stated

When you upload a selfie or image to the Compare-a-Face experience, the image is saved just for the comparison so that you can view again later. No one else will be able to view the images you upload or the comparisons. The photos are not saved as a memory and will not appear in your gallery. You can delete the selfie and comparison at any time.

So it would seem there is no need to worry.

If you've got images you want to delete the instructions are:

    Go to familysearch.org/discovery/compare.
    Click the image that you want to delete.
    Click Delete This Photo.
    Click Delete permanently.

   

[LizzieL]

Been doing a bit more experimenting - but I won't bore you all with all my results!
But does anyone know if there's any percentage ranges you should expect for a parent, sibling, cousin etc, like there is for DNA matches?

I have two pictures taken at different times of the son of my second cousin and his wife. I have 24% and 27% matches to his two pictures and 0% and 10% matches to his wife's pictures to whom I am not related. In both picture my relative has a beard and in one he's wearing sunglasses.

[LizzieW]

I don't think there's a % range given on Familysearch, but I would expect a closer match with my parents and children than grandchildren, for instance, but it hasn't worked out like that, I have a 72% match with my brother a 65% match with my maternal gran, but only a 37% match with my mother    I think it depends partly on the ages of the subjects you are trying to match.  I even had a 10% match with my husband and I'm certain there is no DNA match there at all. 

[JAKnighton]

I got a 79% match with a photo of my father from when he was about my age. No surprise as my likeness to him has been remarked upon for my entire life.

[Rosinish]

I have a 72% match with my brother a 65% match with my maternal gran, but only a 37% match with my mother 

Your mother possibly looked more like her own father rather than your g/mother?

I was at school with twins who looked nothing like each other in any way/shape/form!

One was short/blonde/fair complexion, other was tall/dark/freckle faced & to this day they look nothing like each other i.e. I assume they looked like either parent, one the father, other the mother?

Annie

[Donches]

Family Search now has an intriguing programme to compare resemblances between photographs. I'm not very sure how much the results can be depended upon or what the degrees of resemblance mean. Apprently the programme cannot prove or disprove a relationship, and I wonder if it is more than amusement. Has anybody any comments.

Don

[LizzieW]

Your mother possibly looked more like her own father rather than your g/mother?

He died when she was 12, and I only have one photo of him when he was aged about 40 - he looks much older though compared with today's 40 year olds - and of course I never knew him.

I think I look more like my dad and his sisters than my mum's side of the family, although I can see similarities with some of my mum's ancestors.

[heywood]

Yes, here 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=799272.0;topicseen


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