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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - The Uncanny Valley: Why I’m Wary of AI Photo "Restoration" - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A family photo that includes my 2x great grandmother Margaret Morin (far right) in both original and an AI “restoration” format.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My great grandmother Claudia Caron (right) and her sister Anna (left) in both the original, distressed version and in an AI “restoration” of the photo.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Toussaint Drouillard’s land grant signed by President Andrew Jackson.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Toussaint Drouillard’s probate file includes this map dividing up the land in his estate</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Section 19, Township 3 South, Range 11 East as mapped using GoogleMaps on RandyMajors.org.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wayne County Atlas, 1893, close up on Ecorse, Michigan, and the land of the Drouillard family. From microfilm held at Wisconsin Historical Society.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wayne County Atlas, 1904, close up on Ecorse, Michigan, and the land of the Drouillard family. From microfilm held at Wisconsin Historical Society.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>GoogleMaps image of the area today with the Drouillard land in green and the red indicating where today’s Drouillard Rd. is.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The corner of Drouillard St. and Goddard Rd. standing on the land that Pierre Drouillard the elder inherited from his father Toussaint, facing the land that Peter Drouillard was born on, farmed, and died on at 1130 Goddard, across Fort St. Taken by author in December 2022. And yes, I do know the street sign is misspelled. Maps have the right spelling!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Skyline of Detroit, Michigan, 2019.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A 1700s map of Fort du Detroit. Source</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Plan of Private Claims in Michigan Territory, As Surveyed by Aaron Greeley, D. Surveyor, in 1810 - Detroit Historical Society</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Claudia, Anna, and Margaret (Morin) Caron</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Claudia Caron (l) and Anna Caron (r)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Probably taken in the mid-1880s</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Family of Charles Caron and Margaret Morin</image:title>
      <image:caption>Features all 8 of their surviving children, including Claudia, far left front row</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Claudia Caron</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mid-1890s - perhaps high school graduation?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Nurse Claudia Caron</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sometime between 1900 and 1911</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Claudia Caron</image:title>
      <image:caption>Appears to be a wedding photo, but unclear which husband</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Joseph Asselin and Claudia Caron</image:title>
      <image:caption>Based on clothes and appearance of each, possibly around the time of their marriage</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Claudia Caron and child</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is probably Leonard Asselin as an infant</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Claudia Caron</image:title>
      <image:caption>Date unknown</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Family in Eagle Harbor, Michigan</image:title>
      <image:caption>L to R: Clarice Stafford Rolando, Anna Caron Stafford, David Rolando, Ida May Stafford Barrons, Claudia Caron Asselin, Ida Mae Barrons</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - 52 Ancestors: Favorite Photo - Joseph Asselin and Claudia Caron</image:title>
      <image:caption>Taken in front of their cottage in Eagle Harbor, Michigan. To me this almost looks like they’re recreating the photo from when they were younger!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - Upcoming Presentation: Irish in the Great Lakes - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - Why Online Family Trees Can Be Wrong - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prairie Heart Blog - The Genealogist’s Guide to Photos and Photo Storage - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo one of my aunts shared online of my paternal grandmother (laughing, center) that I hadn’t seen before.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Self portrait, Colonial Williamsburg, 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of my favorite antique family photos, of my 3x great grandparents, Catherine Soleau and Pierre Drouillard. Likely circa 1870s.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wisconsin Historical Society’s Headquarters, 816 State Street, Madison</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wisconsin Historical Society Library’s Reading Room</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wisconsin Historical Society Library’s Stacks</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of Madison in an atlas at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An interpreter makes bread at Old World Wisconsin during their holiday event</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gerber, E. B, C. A. O McClellan, Worley &amp; Bracher, and F Bourquin. Map of De Kalb Co., Indiana. [Philadelphia: E.B. Gerber &amp; C.A.O. McClellan, Phila.: Printed by F. Bourquin &amp; Co, 1863] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593194/.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Janelle and Aunt Marie, 1985</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Thomas O’Rourke, Marie O’Rourke, Eileen O’Rourke — I’ve always enjoyed this photo, which makes it clear just how wide the gap in ages was between my grandmother (far right) and her youngest sister (center). My grandma was likely around 17 in this photo, while Marie was probably 3 or so. Their father (far left) would’ve been in his early 60s.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Thomas O’Rourke at work</image:caption>
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