See your family's history in vibrant colour: MyHeritage lets you enhance and colourise old war-time photos for FREE - just in time for VE Day
Ever wanted to see how your family once reacted to the end of the war in vibrant colour? Have old, blurry photos of relatives that you'd love to see in clear detail?
With VE day on the horizon, MyHeritage is helping families around the world honour and remember loved ones who lived through the momentous end of World War II in Europe with their photo enhancement and colourisation tools - and you can try them with a free trial today.
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Victory in Europe (V-E) Day is tomorrow, and in a moving tribute to the day and the war that prefaced it, MyHeritage users from the US, UK, Canada and beyond have contributed photos with personal narratives behind them.
The unique photos offer rare, human glimpses into the joy, relief and resilience that defined May 8, 1945 – not just historical accounts but snapshots of real people celebrating peace, returning home and rebuilding.
To deepen the connection to these moments, many contributors used MyHeritage's photo enhancement and colourisation tools, which work to help restore and enrich old family photographs, allowing users to see faces, uniforms and cityscapes in a new light.
'Seeing my grandfather's face in full colour, smiling with his friends in uniform, brought tears to my eyes. It made history feel personal - like I was right there with him,' said Jennifer Martin, a MyHeritage user from Ontario.
This initiative is part of MyHeritage's mission to preserve and share family stories. By encouraging users to explore their personal histories, MyHeritage helps bridge generations and cultures with the power of storytelling, adding more records to the database to subsequently help others.
Thus, the power of MyHeritage's genealogy tools truly come into their own.
Allowing you to build your family tree, uncover your family's past and grow your tree further with automatic matches to the brand's global collection of 33.8 billion historical records, MyHeritage makes it easy to discover your genealogy from home.
Better still, with MyHeritage's photo enhancing tools, you can bring focus, stunning detail and vibrant colour to once blurry, black and white images, breathing new life into your ancestry
Better still, with MyHeritage's unmatched photo enhancing tools, you'll be able to bring sharp focus, stunning detail and vibrant colour to once blurry, black and white images, breathing new life into your ancestry.
'I have especially enjoyed the MyHeritage resources that bring my genealogy to life,' wrote one impressed reviewer. 'Colourising black and white photographs can make a huge difference, and DeepStory allows ancestors to tell their own life stories.'
Another added: 'Since joining MyHeritage in 2010, I've gone from knowing very little of my ancestors to a much deeper understanding of who they were and the lives they lived.'
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