Hello everyone. I have a number of brick walls that I have come across, but the most frustrating one is my grandmother's family. My grandmother maiden name is Kelly with Irish connections. I have her mother and father Philip and Mary, but thats about all I can completely conform with certainty. I know Philips father is Thomas Kelly (1859-1926) and his mother is Bridget Whelan (1860-1902), but these names are so common in Ireland and Liverpool/Manchester that trying to figure out which ones are mine is proving to be very difficult. I have some names in my tree, but I have stopped researching as I have gone wrong before and had to delete a load of research as I had gone down the wrong family! Any help or advice very gratefully received!

I keep seeing in some groups on FB, where people are editing and enhancing their old family photos then colorizing them. I became interested in doing this with some old family photos I have that are in poor condition and you can't really clearly see the person. At first, I was looking at apps for photo editing, I had to get a new computer about a month or so ago and discovered I had an app on my new computer that would do this. It is the Copilot AI powered app. I started playing around with the app to see how it worked. I think I pretty much got it down now. You have to type in command prompt for what you want to do, and it does it. Anyways, I tried out editing and enhancing a few really old photos of family members and WOW! They turned out so awesome. I am attaching a few I did. Here are the before and after photos. Let me know what you think. These are my great grandparents Henry Hamilton Weakley and Mary (Sedden) Wilson Weakley.

It may be a little off topic, but I thought it was a wonderful story which I knew nothing about until my husband mentioned it this morning, and I have no idea how it came up in conversation, but it did 🤣 https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/1210-cher-ami-the-pigeon-that-saved-the-lost-battalion.html

NEW PODCASTS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE GENEALOGY PODCASTS RESOURCE PAGE.....

Just added links to the 'Australia Links' resource in the genealogy library....if anyone in that area of the world has any more we can add, please message me. @Kat T @Kim Neal @Mikhal Stone if you have some insights for us on this one, please reach out 😁