Fun Photo Activity - Family History

Last week, the family history project challenge was to find out how your face fit into your family tree ... and there were a lot of fun entries. This week, the challenge was to go to familysearch.org, in the "activities" section (the same place the "compare a face" challenge was located) but this week, it was "Picture Your Heritage" where you can insert YOUR face into historical photos. 

Here are the girls ... can you recognize who is who?

To give a little hint/help, here's who participated: Janika, Janelle, Jaiden and Jenna from the Jensen family. Derek's girls Aniston, Layla and Noelle. Shane's girls Adria and Rella. Kylie, Corin's wife sent a submission too (Grandma would love for the older, married kids to participate!) As just 10 names are listed, and there are twelve photos, someone submitted more than one. You can see that certain poses were popular!

There wasn't quite as much participation from the guys ... but there were some great shots!

Do you need names at least to guess who is who? Uncle Chris, and his boys Kaden, Corin, Camden and Cayson. Nope ... Kellin didn't submit one, but I sure thought he did! Calder, Keaton, Cooper and Josh also have faces featured.

This activity worked best using a phone or tablet. It needs to access your camera so it can fill in your face (unlike the previous "compare-a-face activity which also allowed you to upload an existing photograph). You can "see" your face fitting into the image, and then adjust the brightness to try to make it match the picture. 

I'll admit ... I didn't know WHERE to put this one!

Just in case you couldn't tell, that's silly Uncle Derek!

In addition to participation awards, there were additional awards for quickest submission, funniest, and most realistic. 

What would your votes be?

Should I re-post the pictures with the names attached, or make you go to the Dropbox folder (these are in the year 2021 folder, labeled with names). 

I tried out the challenge originally, but didn't submit any for the contest ... 

but it was rather fun to play around with. 

If you are signed into Family Search, then it will match your last name up with nationalities that match up with your name. You can choose to go through all the different cultures if you want ... or as Derek displayed, switch sexes too. There were photos for men, women, and even some other group photos, that give you additional picture poses to choose from.

This was a fun photo activity for family history!