Raymond Frogner says that when he found pictures of boarders in the archives of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Rome, he knew he was on to something important. “It had a very historic feel, very profound,” the senior archivist at the Winnipeg-based Center for Truth and Reconciliation said in a recent interview with …
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GFP-GAN is a New Free AI Tool That Can Fix Most Old Photos Instantly
Do you have an old family photograph that “needs work?” That is, does it have cracks or is it badly faded? A newly-released artificial intelligence (AI) model called the “Generative Facial Prior” (GFP-GAN) can repair most old photographs in mere seconds, and it can do it for free. A YouTube video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLDVtzcSeqM …
Two Million Historic York Records Go Online
More than two million records detailing baptisms, marriages and burials in York, England over five centuries have been released online thanks to a new partnership between the University of York and Ancestry. Marriage certificate of Robert Duck and Catherine Peacock, 1837. Image credit: University of York The records, which are held at the University’s Borthwick …