Family History
August 29, 2006
Its getting to be time to get back to doing some research on family history. I havent touched it in about 6 months, but am going to soon. I dont know much about my family’s history and would like to learn more. Unfortunately, most of my family doesnt know much about the history either. That makes the research difficult. I want to upload some pictures and some interesting stories about family members.
A lot more is known about Suzanne’s side of the family. I have captured a bunch of that info, but have some more to document. In addition, Suzanne’s dad recently retired and is taking a geneaology course at the local college. He wants to find more and capture what he already knows and some of his stories. I expect the info on Suzanne’s side to grow significantly.
I am going to try to enlist my family to help out, but havent had favorable results in the past. Maybe this time…
In addition, I recently found a guy starting development of a wordpress plugin for phpgedview, which is the web app I use. When finished, it should integrate the two nicely. I will play with it this weekend and maybe even offer some help.
The wine tasting last night was a lot of fun. I think I had more than the three or four glasses of wine I had mentioned I would probably have. So, it was a bigger cheat from my NutriSystem diet than planned. Luckily, its just calories, so hopefully, it will have minimal impact.
Compare Your Face To Celebrities
July 25, 2006
Ran across a neat little application the other day on the internet. A genealogy site has an online face recognition application that then compares your face to a celebrity database. It then tells you which celebrities that you most look like. It’s a fun little application. The site is: My Heritage Face Recognition
You will have to register (free) on the site in order to use the application. You upload an image to the application and it will return a series of images of celebrities that you most resemble. For best results, you would want to try it several times with multiple images and then take the common results from the celebrities listed.
For grins, I uploaded the family image below to see what would be returned for the Klasens.
The list of returned celebrities was interesting:
- Suzanne: Kim Cattrall, Rene Russo, Kate Beckinsale, Selma Blair, Hilary Swank, Cindy Crawford, Ashton Kutchner (my favorite) and Ursula Andress
- Steve: P Diddy, Peter Sellers, Gabriel Byrne, and Jet Li (??)
- Savannah : Eddie Murphy (oops), Rachel Hunter, Halle Berry, Alyson Hannigan and Angelina Jolie
- Sean: Graham Chapman, Mohandis Ghandi, Sidney Poitier and John Belushi
Each image returned is also given a percent match. Suzanne’s first match was 66%. Mine was 60%. Savannah’s was 60%. Sean’s was 56%. Those arent very high percentages. I didnt try additional photos but it might be interesting to see if duplicate matches came from different photos.
The site also has the option to match faces from their family history database versus the celebrity database, but something tells me that wouldnt be as much fun.
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