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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 20:55 GMT (UK) »
No need to apologise. 8)  I am grateful for all opinions. There must be a way of finding out for sure. Some people do this for a living. What would they be called? :-\

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 21:01 GMT (UK) »
Forensic artists  :)
But I think they mainly work for the police and would probably cost alot of money  :-\

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 29 January 08 21:03 GMT (UK) »
I have downloaded this software a while ago but haven't played with it a lot so cannot tell you how good it is but it does boast of face recognition technology

http://www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder

It's a free download.
Here is a bit of blurb from the site
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Use face recognition technology - annotate the faces you recognize using drag & drop… Then harness the knowledge of other users to identify unknown people and find more photos of your ancestors!
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<br /><br /> Researching LEY, MEATS, LEVER (Nottingham)<br /> KERRIAGE/KERRIDGE/CARRIAGE (Norfolk, Cambridge,Lincoln)<br /> WISEMAN (Cambridge)<br /> UNWIN (Staffordshire,Derbyshire)<br /> FRANCES/FRANCIS (Norfolk)<br /> And BELL, McKENZIE and GRAY in Scotland.

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 08:34 GMT (UK) »
Once again thank you everyone for all your help.
Thats the unfortunate thing about genealogy. Just when you get excited over a new piece of info you find that it leads you into another brick wall. :'(
Thanks for the web site. ;D  I had a go last night. Unfortunately it was inconclusive but I would definitely recommend it to others. I shall be on it later comparing all my other photos.
Tina

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 10:41 GMT (UK) »
Here   is the army picture  looking forward.

I make no claims, just for fun.
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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 11:44 GMT (UK) »
Thats fantastic you lot are all so talented. 8)
I'm going to start comparing again. ::) ::) ::)
Cheers Tina :D

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 12:20 GMT (UK) »
It's the hair cut Keith  ;D
Otherwise, believe China's formula. They're the same man.
If you can imagine a skull, without eyebrows and ears to distract you, you can see not just similarity but exactitude.
Leonie.
PS. I'm not a forensic artist just an ordinary one.  ;)
Direct matriarchal line; ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Ryland-Lechford/Luxford-Bagshaw-Henriett
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis/Davies-Buck-Oakley-
JONES-Roberts-Handy-Ross-Warrillow-Eagles-Cotterill-Bailey.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

STILL LOOKING FOR: Elizabeth Ann Balfour ENNIS nee DAVIS. Disappeared in Adelaide, South Australia. 1881.

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 12:53 GMT (UK) »
That photo has convinced me that is is the same man.
The head shape is the same and so are the chin and nose. The eyes are a little distracting but if they were squinting I think you would see the same face.
The ears, although appear lower down in the earlier photo, are also the same shape. Hooray ;D ;D ;D
One family mystery almost solved only another dozen to go.
I am sorry to keep repeating myself but thankyou all so much. :-*
Tina

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Re: How do I tell if 2 photos are the same person.
« Reply #26 on: Friday 29 April 16 15:39 BST (UK) »
Yes, I'd go for it being the same chap -my training was partly in a very visual area, and the angles of various things look right.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)
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