Face Recognition

Jasia at CreativeGene has been experimenting with MyHeritage Face Recognition. So I thought I would try it out too.

I decided to see which grandparents I looked most alike, and I started by clipping the faces from the Bar Mitzvah photograph I posted yesterday, as well as from another photo of my maternal grandmother from the 1940s.

I started out with my paternal grandparents - Melvin Newmark and Sissie Feinstein (Sissie being a name her older brother gave her, and it ended up sticking the rest of her life) and discovered I looked slightly more like my grandmother than my grandfather.

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Then I tried my maternal grandparents, Martin Deutsch and Myrtle Van Every. I had to find a different photo for Myrtle, and discovered I was 13% more like my grandfather.

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I wondered though if this was being influenced by the photographs having been taken when they were of significantly different ages. So I found a younger photo of both.

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Exactly equal!

So...am I more like my mom's parents, or my dad's parents? Well, the above doesn't tell me. So I had to do two more.

I'm 14% more like my maternal grandfather

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And then to compare my grandmothers, I had to find a younger photo of Sissie. The one I chose is a little grainy because it came from a newspaper clipping - her engagement announcement.

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This was certainly a lot of fun!