Ancestry.com Now Lets You Instantly Colorize Precious Portraits From The Past

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Do you ever wish you could travel back in time and meet long-gone relatives? While time-travel machines remain a pipe dream, genealogy platforms are providing some semblance of that by allowing you to animate and enhance old portraits.

Ancestry.com has now introduced a colorization tool of its own, promising to revive the memory of loved ones by creating “a more vivid, real-life snapshot of your ancestors and their lives.” To make this possible, it teamed up with family nostalgia app developer Photomyne, which allows users to scan and digitize historical photos and then generate a timeline from them.

“We all love looking at old black-and-white family photos for a trip down memory lane,” the website says in a press release. “But imagine seeing a photo of your great-grandmother with her vibrant red hair and piercing blue eyes. Now that’s possible with Ancestry's new colorization feature.”

The colorization feature is accessible on mobile and on Ancestry.com’s website.

Images via Ancestry.com

Images via Ancestry.com

[via PetaPixel and Ancestry.com, images via Ancestry.com]