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Apologies
Hey guys apologies for cancelling tonight’s lesson. I’m not feeling 100% so don’t want to look like a bag of crap on screen. Enjoy your weekend
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I hope you feel better soon. Take care of you first.
Photo editing and enhancing old family photos
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.
Photo editing and enhancing old family photos
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Thank you both, it was a slow and tedious process. I found with the AI editing you have to be careful what photo's you choose to work with as it sometimes alters people's faces. I am thinking I should look into buying a photo editing software for doing this type of work.
Can anyone help with finding marriage details, please
Before I take the plunge and order a marriage certificate, can anyone advise where else I can seach for the marriage details of Hannah Ferry born 1855, Sunderland (Parents William Ferry and Hannah Clark). I have found 2 possible marriages - Robert William Evans (Married 1875 - Sunderland) William Clouder (Married 1877 - Sunderland) I have searched - Ancestry, Findmypast, Familysearch, and Durham Records Online, but they have only resulted in the Index record which doesn't show her fathers details etc. On the census of 1871 Hannah was living at 12 Gerald Street, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, if that may help. Thank you
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Have you tried looking through the newspaper achieves to see if there was a marriage announcement?
Tonight's lesson on Scottish Records
Here's what we found for @Sonize Weakley records of baptisms, marriages and burials for her SHAW and HARDIE ancestors :D
Tonight's lesson on Scottish Records
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@Ceri Logan could you share the web link to that website please.
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@Ceri Logan My daughter sent a request to join the group tonight. 😁
Please Introduce Yourself Here...
Tell us a little bit about who you are, and where you're from and we want to know: 1. Who you’re researching 2. Where they’re from (if you know) 3. And what you’re stuck on (or hoping to learn) Ask a question, even if it's basic. There is no such thing as a silly genealogy question here!
2 likes • Mar 21
Hello, I am researching several brick walls I have hit in my genealogy research. I am hoping to learn more about online resources and skills for searching in England and Ireland. My great grandmother Mary was born somewhere in England in 1856, after her mother died, her father brought her and 3 brothers to the United States and then abandoned them. They were adopted out to different families. Then, my 3rd great grandfather was born in somewhere in Ireland, I don't know when he came to the United States. The earliest record I can find on him is a marriage record from 1847 when he married my 3rd great grandmother. I am always interested in learning more knowledge about genealogy research.
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I want to give a big Welcome to the new members. 🤗
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Sonize Weakley
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@sonize-weakley-3916
Hello, my name is phonetically pronounced Son -Nez (as in Sonya and Inez) I have been doing genealogy for over 25 years and 21 years on Ancestry.com

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Joined Mar 15, 2026
Billings, Montana