Keys Sisters Revisited
Crops taken from the enhanced copy of an old 1894 photo of Ruth, Daisy, and Mabel Keys
My first Keys Sisters post was in December of 2015. That was a photo of the sisters Daisy, Ruth, and Mabel Keys in around 1894 when they were but young girls. This was only seven years after the family had immigrated from England. The Keys Sisters- Part 2 was posted a year and a half later. That photo was taken around 1951 when the sisters were much more mature. Fifty-seven years can do that to a person!
Enhanced photo from 1951 of the Keys sisters. From left to right are Ruth Keys Bryan, Daisy Keys Phenice, and Mabel Keys Miller
The connection to me is that Daisy is my great grandmother – my mother’s mother’s mother. She is the source of my mitochondrial DNA. Most of my maternal cousins have the same mtDNA since my mom has more sisters than brothers. Actually it was only one brother, so his children have their mother’s mitochondrial DNA. She’s from England, so we all have mtDNA straight from across the pond.
Three years have now passed since Part 2, so it’s time for another look at the sisters. I hope they realize how fortunate they were to have each other for so long. After recently losing the second of my three sisters, it makes me a little jealous of what they had. But I won’t dwell on that, I’ll continue to celebrate with them for what they had. Too bad I don’t have a new photo to share with you. Like I said in the title, I’m just revisiting.
Enhanced photo from 1894 with Ruth, Daisy, and Mabel Keys
“Here he goes with those enhanced photos again,” you may be saying with frustration. I agree. I like to see new photos. I haven’t found any new photos of the sisters together, but I have improved the ones I have.
The 1894 photo was a really good photo, considering it was just a photo of the original photo sent to me from Aunt Loris. All three of the faces have enough details that the enhanced photo looks like the person it’s supposed to. It helps that none of them are smiling with their teeth showing. The enhancer always seems to give everyone perfect teeth!
The 1951 photo was very blurry, so I wasn’t sure that it would work well for that photo. It worked much better than I thought it would, even though there are some blurry parts near the edges of the photo. It also doesn’t seem to figure out that if one side of a person’s face looks like they’re wearing glasses, the other side should have glasses, too. Daisy’s teeth were a little too perfect at first. So I looked at several photos of her and edited the photo to make it look more realistic. I think it is a good improvement over the original.
Maybe we’ll have another part to this Keys Sisters series. If so, it will have to be a different photo of the sisters that I don’t know about yet. Wouldn’t that be grand!