Easy animations of deceased people telling their life story

 Over the past two weeks I have created these for some of our ancestors. 

For Easter, I showed our children three of these.

Today I sent an email to family members who might be interested in one of these lines.
Over the next few days, I plan to do this for other family lines.

Is it perfect? No. The voice is not the person's real voice. And the timing and inflection are sometimes wrong, And some names get mispronounced. But it is still pretty good, and the results will be more interesting to many family members than a printed page would be.  

Take a look at it: https://www.myheritage.com/deepstory/

I sent the following email to my family members (including the Youtube links.):

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Dear Family.

Some of you have seen earlier versions of these.

Dorothy Ing (link removed)

Richard Ing  (link removed)

Louisa Wright  (link removed)

EXPLANATION: I have a subscription to MyHeritage.com  I have not found it particularly useful as a source of historical records, but it has excellent tools for automatically colorizing black and white photos, and for restoring faded color photos. https://www.myheritage.com/incolor

Their most recent feature is LiveStory (now called DeepStory), where you select a photo and add a story, and they animate the photo, so that the person is telling their own story. The voice is a computer voice, with minor imperfections, but the overall effect is that a deceased ancestor can be seen telling their own story.

 I think it is a fun way to share genealogy. 

He is an example of my grandfather's cousin, telling the story of the multi-family move from Ontario to Manitoba in 1879. https://youtu.be/Whe6jMynP2Q

Please share it with your family if you think they may be interested.

Love,
Bill/Dad/Grandpa

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NOTE: I am not sponsored by MyHeritage.com