Here’s a glimpse at our journey, and instructions for making meaning from your old, unidentifiable photographs, using Google Photos to identify, group, and link faces. Knowing that an attic isn’t the safest place to store these priceless family heirlooms, a few years ago we took advantage of modern technology to digitize all of these old photographs. I’m lucky that hundreds of my family’s photographs have survived unscathed through generations of my family, untouched in my grandfather’s attic. Many unidentified photos have clues- like this location stamp – which can help you in your search. Thanks to Google photo’s facial recognition, Google was able to tell me that no less than 30 of my photographs were of my maternal grandmother! Rather than having only those few snapshots of her in her 20s, I now had photographs of her throughout her lifetime. Shockingly, Google Photos was able to tell me that a particular photograph of a dimly lit toddler was the same woman posing with her child 20 years later, and her grandchild 30 years after that!īefore Google photos, I thought that I only had about four photos of my maternal grandmother.
#Unnamed faces picasa sorty by most free#
Initially, I discovered this application of facial recognition by accident- I was simply uploading old photographs to free up some space on my hard drive, but what I quickly discovered- and was astounded by- was the fact that nearly as soon as they were uploaded, Google photos began identifying faces of my ancestors, identifying individuals despite their changes over a lifetime. But I love old photographs and I am excited to share a new way I discovered to more meaningfully organize mine. This is a little outside of my typical wheelhouse, as this blog is more about crafts, DIY, and occasional travel post than it is about scrapbooking and genealogy research.
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