Viewing RootsTech at Home

Viewing RootTech from Home

The world's largest family history conference takes place annually in Salt Lake City, sponsored by FamilySearch. Some of the sessions can be viewed from home.

RootsTech Live Streaming content this week: 
Go to rootstech.org
Click on Salt Lake City 2020 drop down arrow
Click on Conference Information
Click on Agenda drop down
Click on Free Live Stream
Click on the tabs for each day's content
This is the link: https://www.rootstech.org/salt-lake/live-stream-schedule

Some sessions will also be recorded and can be viewed later. 
It is a great opportunity to learn and enjoy!

Colorizing black and white photos

I subscribe to MyHeritage.com and this week they had something that really interested me.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/02/colorize-your-black-and-white-photos-automatically-with-myheritage-in-color/

I was able to use their site to colorize black and white photos.
For maybe 50 years, I have been an avid collector of old family photos.
Most of these are black and white, so the idea of converting them to color, seemed very interesting.
The process was very fast.

1. Upload a photo
2. Click colorize
3. Download the colorized version. 

Results varied, of course, Overexposed and underexposed photos did not do as well, but the results for properly-exposed photos were impressive. See the one below.

Admittedly the software does not really know the original colors, so a lot of guesswork is involved, but I find the results well worth the minimal effort required.

P.S.
The little girl Annie Bray, (shown front center)  grew up to become one of my family history mentors in the 1960s. She was born in 1889. Thank you for all your help Annie Bray!


UPDATE: I seem to be able to upload a maximum of about 80 photos to colorize. I wish I had chosen them more carefully.