In late February 2021, My Heritage™ released a new, amazing, feature on their website called Deep Nostalgia™ for animating family photos. Upload a photo-my experience is that a portrait-style works best-and within seconds the photo becomes an animated mp4 file. In just one short week after release 10 million photos were animated. Of course, I had to give it a try and the first photo I chose was of my grandma Anne Penne Hiller when she was about 20 years old.
This is the still photo I used for the Deep Heritage™animation and below is the animation.
Kind of freaky right? I didn’t stop here though! Below you’ll see my other three grandparents as well as my two times great-grandfather Christian Hiller. Since I was lucky enough to remember three of my grandparents, except for Marie Atwell who died when I was four, using photos from their younger days was enjoyable.
My grandpa Don Hiller, maybe about 7 or 8 years.
My paternal grandmother, Marie Willing Atwell. Doesn’t she look adorable in that hat?
Harry Atwell, my paternal grandpa.
Christian Hiller’s Civil War era tin-type photo, circa 1864-1865.
Try it for yourself at My Heritage™! They offer five free animations before you need to choose a membership level. I really love this new tool and of course will add the animations to my genealogy photo files and, yes, I now have a membership to My Heritage™!
PS-All the videos offered after the animations are from my own YouTube videos on genealogy. So now is your time to catch up if you missed any.