In July’s ‘Pains and Gains’ segment, Val was delighted to report that old Word files have been successfully retrieved and she has written two ‘chapters’ based on ‘Irish John’ Hernan and another key character for her family story. Helen’s DNA results arrived – confirming her understanding that her family is largely of Scottish origin.
This month we reviewed programs which convert PDF files to Word – especially pdf2go (https://www.pdf2go.com/pdf-to-word) - and the growing use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in photo restoration. The free Hotpot.ai (https://hotpot.ai/restore-picture) program was applied to improve a photo of Helen’s brother taken when he was a child, removing scratches and then ‘colorising’ it.
Other problem-solving included rectifying ancestry.com records (for a stepfather mistakenly listed as a biological father) and the tricky process of downloading and inserting images from Trove into family stories.
Work is continuing ‘one to one’ with members new to family research using ancestry.com. Going back to the generation which emigrated or were transported to Australia often develops family stories and themes very similar to the family stories and themes developed on ‘Who do you think you are’.
With members travelling overseas and interstate over the next month or so, the small group is taking a break in August and will resume on Thursday 1st September from 1 to 4pm.
Bev Lee
This month we reviewed programs which convert PDF files to Word – especially pdf2go (https://www.pdf2go.com/pdf-to-word) - and the growing use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in photo restoration. The free Hotpot.ai (https://hotpot.ai/restore-picture) program was applied to improve a photo of Helen’s brother taken when he was a child, removing scratches and then ‘colorising’ it.
Other problem-solving included rectifying ancestry.com records (for a stepfather mistakenly listed as a biological father) and the tricky process of downloading and inserting images from Trove into family stories.
Work is continuing ‘one to one’ with members new to family research using ancestry.com. Going back to the generation which emigrated or were transported to Australia often develops family stories and themes very similar to the family stories and themes developed on ‘Who do you think you are’.
With members travelling overseas and interstate over the next month or so, the small group is taking a break in August and will resume on Thursday 1st September from 1 to 4pm.
Bev Lee