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

Most people searching for their Scottish ancestors stop at birth records and census rolls. But there's a hidden archive that goes far deeper. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📜 Before 1823, when a Scot died, the Commissary Courts of Scotland recorded something called a Testament Dative — a detailed inventory of everything your ancestor owned at the moment of their death. Every pot, every plough, every debt owed and every debt owing. These documents don't just tell you a name and a date. They tell you how your ancestor lived. You can find out if your great-great-great-grandfather was a struggling tenant farmer or a prosperous merchant. You can read the names of his neighbours who witnessed the inventory. You can see the exact value of his cattle, his tools, his furniture. It is one of the most powerful genealogy resources in the world, and most people have never heard of it. The National Records of Scotland has digitised thousands of these testaments, and many are searchable for free through ScotlandsPeople. If your family line traces back to Scotland before the 1800s, this could be the document that changes everything. 🦌⚔️ Drop your Scottish surname in the comments — let's see whose ancestors might be waiting in those archives!

(Just saw this on another group and thought it might be of interest to some people) A historical topic that is currently passionate about genealogists around the world... The US National Archives recently uploaded the NSDAP membership file (part nazi ), a major historical source thus far hardly accessible. The interest was such that the site was even temporarily saturated. These archives allow, in some cases, to find: a date of birth a place of birth a date of joining and even the digitized membership card A valuable document for those who wish to better understand their family history and explore sometimes unknown breads of the past. A particularly useful resource for research related to people born before 1926. Unfortunately it didn't give a link.

There was a law passed in 1847 that forced your ancestors to make an impossible choice. ☘️ It was called the Gregory Clause. Also known as the Quarter Acre Clause. It stated that any Irish tenant farmer who held more than a quarter-acre of land was ineligible for Famine relief. To feed your starving children, you had to surrender your land. Forever. The British government knew exactly what it was doing. The Famine was being used to clear the Irish off the land they had farmed for generations. Landlords supported the clause because it emptied their estates without the cost of eviction. Millions of Irish families faced this moment. Give up the land your grandfather broke his back on, or watch your children die. Most gave up the land. And then they boarded the ships. That dispossession, that impossible choice, that grief of losing the ground beneath your feet, it didn't disappear when your ancestors arrived in America or Australia or Canada. Science now tells us that ancestral trauma reshapes the nervous system across generations. The restlessness. The inability to fully feel at home. The fierce grip on what little you have. That may not be a personality trait. That may be inherited memory. Your ancestors survived the Gregory Clause. They gave up everything so you could exist. Drop your Irish county below. Let's find out where your family's land once was. ☘️ #IrishAmerican #Ireland #IrishAncestry #FamilyHistory #IrishHistory