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Compare A Face on Family Search #photographs

Felissa Lashley
 

I have started to use Compare A Face in the hopes of possibly confirming what might be old photos of two sets of great grandparents. I have compared photos of my grandparents at ages from very young to elderly and have gotten matches of 96% to 100% so I feel that there is some validity to this use.
 
However, I get a lower percent when comparing my two grandparents with in one case a known parental couple, and in the other, a possible parental couple. In all cases the man has a beard and the woman a babushka. In one case, either of two couples could be the parents of one grandparent. The agreement in the facial matches are: woman 42%, man 46%, and in the other possible parental couple: man 26% and woman 62%. 
 
Of course these families had quite a few known cousin marriages and there is the issue of chromosome assortment as well as other factors.
 
Has anyone had any experience with interpreting compare a face results or have any knowledge they could please share?
 
Appreciate any thoughts...Thank you.
 
Felissa Lashley
Austin, Texas
 
Researching: DROBITSKY/DORBIN/DRUBITSKY
MOZER/MAYER/MAZUR/MASUR
LISHINSKY/LECHINSKY/LISHCHINSKY
ZATULOVSKY/SATLOFF/SATLOW
FELTSKE/FILTZKI
MAYSTROVOY/MEISTROFF
And towns of VALYAVA, GORODISCHE, KORSUN, BELOZERIE, ZOLOTONOSHA, MOSHNY, CHERKASY, LYSYANKA, all Ukraine.
Malcolm Blier
 

Thanks for clueing me into this. I have a bunch of photos from the 1890's. My hunch is they were my paternal grandmother's. For 2 men I get an 89% match on photos maybe 10 years apart (people aged faster back then...), so that seems definitive. Now can I take my grandmother's photo and compare it to him to see if it demonstrates that that's her father? Is it useful that way? And what do these percentages indicate?

It's a little late to suggest that people might have written on the back who these people were. I guess they knew...


Malcolm Blier
Lexington MA
GARY FREEDMAN
 

I’m glad that you asked.  I t tried to access compare a face on the family search website in order to use free face recognition technology on, for 4 different pictures with the same name on each picture of my father’s sister that I discovered online on identity cards from the Łódź Ghetto.  I wanted to compare these pictures to snapshots of two other of her siblings.  I tried to use this technology but I couldn’t get past the family search “compare your face “feature. I am reluctant to use this technology in the way that is presented because I have privacy concerns about potential data theft.  Can anyone suggest a way for me to get past the family search “compare a face “feature? If not can you suggest some other free online face recognition technology?

Gary Freedman 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Researching:
TARADAY, VOLKO Line, SURA FEIGA Line, FRUMA Line
MENDEL TARADAY, (Son of Kusiel Line)
GEORGE TARADAY/DAY of England Line
DIXON of Florida 
CHAL SHLOMO FRYDMAN Line
Living Descendants of ABRAM FRYDMAN (Poland, tailor, circa 1802)
Descendents of JANKIEL FRYDMAN (Poland, tailor, circa 1850)
Malcolm Blier
 

I'm not sure what data is at risk. I put my g-grandfather's photo in, it labels it "Malcolm" (me). I haven't figured out/ don't care how to correctly name that person. I just want to compare photos. What interests me is putting each grandparent in to see whose father that was. My question is  - is that a valid use, family resemblance? Everyone in my family would tell me" you look just like your father" (true), so if I found two pictures of us at the same age, it should register a high %. It was like 31%. I'll experiment with it. My hope is/ was that software would help identify unknown faces using ones I can identify.


Malcolm Blier
Lexington MA
jbonline1111@...
 

Everyone in my family would tell me" you look just like your father"--

My brother and I resemble our father, but the person who resembles him most at the same age (late 20s) is my son. I'd be cautious about assuming a particular relationship based on resemblance.
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC
James Hannum
 

People sometimes advise us to label our photographs, to write "Grandma Ethel Levy 1902-67" on the bottom or the back of photos.  Few of us do this, thinking "We'll always remember this is Grandma!"  But a few decades later nobody knows whose photo it is.   ) :   --James Hannum
James Hannum
 

What would motivate someone to steal copies of your deceased aunt?  And if they did steal them, what harm could they do to you with them?  --James Hannum
Marcie Murray
 

  I'm guess i havent  explored Family Search to learn of these features. I would like to compare, not my face, but the faces of my great grandparents children, as I also have unmarked photos of relatives of my grandparents and great grandparents. Is this doable on the Compare a Face feature??
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Marcie Murray
Minneapolis MN
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