Ancestors

Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-27 at 08:55

Mostly I don't like AI tools, but there are some things that I really think it could help me with. Like identifying random locations in photos of early 20th century Western Australia.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children_on_parade_in_front_of_buildings_(cropped).png

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Toot

Written by kgoetz on 2024-12-27 at 09:56

@samwilson uh oh, that looks interesting... I better scroll on fast before I start investigating 😂

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Descendants

Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-27 at 10:13

@kgoetz hehe yes I must admit I was slightly fishing for ideas! 😜

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Written by kgoetz on 2024-12-27 at 10:55

@samwilson I couldn't figure it out. Hopefully there aren't too many buildings marked Mercery (I think "

MERCERY (...?) SHOES" on the top) and your state archives are searchable 🤞

possibly 1937, if I squint hard enough at the corner but that feels too late . maybe the rest of the archive has information to guide that bit of the search - i looked around but couldn't see what I needed.

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Written by Sam Wilson on 2024-12-27 at 11:33

@kgoetz It's a tiny print, but I'll re-scan it to see if there's any more detail. I'm thinking it could be Carnarvon, and 1937 mightn't be too far off (it's possibly slightly related to this photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Mary%27s_Star_of_the_Sea_Catholic_School#/media/File:Carnarvon_Convent_1927-28_(cropped).png ). But yeah, that's all conjecture really!

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