Animate Ancestral Photos
Use MyHeritage’s LiveMemory™ on your mobile or a computer. It’s free to try! 🤗
Across my desk from our friends at MyHeritage, we just learned their ‘still image to action video’ app can have your ancestor dancing, kissing, floating, swimming under water, changing a hairstyle, or even chased by a T-Rex.
What a hilarious way to share an ancestor with those skeptical non-genealogists in the family.
“Great news: LiveMemory™ is now officially available on the MyHeritage website!
Since launching on the MyHeritage mobile app last November, LiveMemory™ has taken off, with over half a million animations created so far. Now you can bring your photos to life right from your computer.”
For Further Reading
Check out “New: LiveMemory™ Now Available on the MyHeritage Website” in their blog, posted June 23, 2025. https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/06/final-livememory-now-available-on-the-myheritage-website/
I tried these when they first came out just for fun. The subjects in the one I did were my kids then aged 4 and 8. When I sent it to them (then aged 28 and 32), the response from my son - which my daughter agreed with, was "That is creepy AF NGL".
I do find them somewhat unnerving myself. When they are with living people ... like my kids they are kind of amusing to me but when with dead people it makes me feel like I am disrespecting them in some way. However I appreciate that lots of other people love them.
Am I the only person who finds them creepy? At least for the people I actually knew. My grandparents and parents - me and my siblings/cousins when younger.