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I likely won’t ever get around to building this, but I feel strongly a genealogy/family media focused web app would be so useful. Scan and upload old photos, ma
by dchuk 4y ago
I likely won’t ever get around to building this, but I feel strongly a genealogy/family media focused web app would be so useful. Scan and upload old photos, maybe have ai upscale and clean the, up, let your family tag the various old people in each photo.
I have started asking my family to give me all of the old physical pictures we have so I can scan and upscale them. But then there’s no good place to share and tag them all for a large family.
- karencarits 4y agoSites like https://geni.com https://geni.com would allow you to upload and trash photos
- masklinn 4y agoOne common issue is the images alone are rarely sufficient to tell a story, so you need to collect their context before the owner is gone. One interesting bit is generalisable knowledge can be inferred from old pictures, but that'd be mostly relevant for specific events, or very old pictures. Although I guess vacation pictures from e.g. the post-war period could be useful for ecological studies, if their location is known. Things like indoor christmas pictures, less so, even though from an emotional perspective they were undoubtedly dear to whoever took them.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoThere must be at least a dozen of these. The hard part seems to be getting people to scan and upload the photos, and then getting others to tag the people (and not being bought by Ancestry.com). One that seems to have hit a critical mass is https://www.wikitree.com/ https://www.wikitree.com/ - it has some interesting features I haven't explored yet, like 'free spaces' https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Free-Space_Profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Free-Space_Profile