Familysearchs discovery page and click compare-a-face

Have you ever wondered where you got your good looks? Now you can know through a newly released FamilySearch discovery adventure called “Compare-a-Face.” It uses your picture, the portraits of your ancestors on FamilySearch.org, and facial recognition software to tell you how much you look like your ancestors. Try it out by clicking this link (or put it in your browser):...

We discussed the FamilySearch Compare-a-Face app on Mondays With Myrt this week, so I went to it to see which relative my face matches best.  The app is at https://familysearch.org/discovery/.

The Discovery page looks like this (for me, not an LDS member):

I clicked on the "Compare-a-Face" item on the left side of the screen above:

The image above asks me to upload a photo, of myself, so I did, and the system looked at the photos of my ancestors in the FamilySearch Family Tree and ranked them somehow by facial recognition in order of alikeness.

Here is my top match:

My maternal grandmother!  50%.  I figured the beard in my photo would skew the results to the beards in my ancestral photos.

In the screen above, you can see all of the ancestor photos at the top of the screen.  If I click on another one, it shows me the facial comparison:

I figured that perhaps my great-grandfather, Charles Auble, father of my grandmother, would be a close match:

Charlie and I are only 28% alike, perhaps because of the shape of the face, ears, eyes, nose, etc.

Another one - my mother:

28%, but her photo was taken when she was 23 and mine is from age 74.

Last one, Devier J. Smith, my 2nd great-grandfather (1839-1894):

22%.  Again the beard, mustache, ears, eyes, nose play a part here.

In the top line, below the FamilySearch logo, is a "List" link, which provides a summary of your Compare-a-Face results:

This was genealogy fun.  I need to find a full-face photo of my grandmother, and a younger photo of me to do this again.

Obviously, you and your ancestors have to be in the FamilySearch  Family Tree, and have photographs in the Memories section of the Family Tree, in order for this app to work.

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