You have heard me speak of the infamous 1800's album many times over the years.  So many of these photos are quite small with just the head shot, while others show a wee bit more. Yet, over the many years this album sat in Grandma's attic, no one thought to ask her, Evelyn, Eleanore or even Great Grandma Nell who exactly these people were?!!

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BUT NOW thanks to My Heritage and Ancestry.com, there are new colorization and enhancement programs. Utilizing both of these on 58 individual photos (with more to come!) we can now see a more accurate depiction of what are our ancestors looked like!! 

 

Admittedly, there a few photos that still need work but so many came out amazingly clear that I decided to create a video (my very first video ever!) of the photos I was able to colorize and enhance!

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Of course the next quest in the continual ancestral adventure is to determine who these individuals might be. Some pop up in additional photos with the current cast of Thomas Filben, his wife Hanora (Flannigan) grandparents to great grandma Nell and their daughters/sons.  A colorized and enhanced photo can certainly makes the puzzle a little bit easier to figure out!

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For now, I leave you with this old Irish Blessing