You’ve probably heard about it. It received a lot of attention when it was announced at RootsTech and subsequently.
With Scribe AI from MyHeritage, you upload any historical record, letter, document or photo and receive detailed Al insights. ” It can transcribe and interpret handwritten and typed documents, estimate the date and location of old family photos, decipher the symbolism on gravestones, and interpret family crests and coats of arms.”
It’s found under the MyHeritage Photos tab, and is certainly worth a try. Scribe AI for free on a limited number of images. Afterward, analyzing more images requires a Complete MtHeritage subscription.
https://www.myheritage.com/scribe-ai shows lots of examples, or watch the video.
I tried it on a handwritten French-language birth registration — it performed as promised, transcribing, translating, and extracting the key information. Here’s the original and the historical context.
And the transcription below, not perfect but pretty good.
” From Monday the sixth of February one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight at three o’clock in the afternoon. Birth certificate of a child who was presented to Us and who was recognized to be of the male sex. Born yesterday at eight o’clock in the evening, at the home of his father and mother, 46 rue Dauphine, legitimate son of Robert Alexander, hotel waiter, aged thirty-two years and of Lenta Kearney, without profession, aged twenty-one years, Married in Southampton (England) the eighth of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. Thus declared. Who received the given names of Laurent John. Upon the requisition and presentation made to Us by the father of the child. In the presence of Jean Bude, hotel waiter, aged forty years, and of Thomas Cony, sailor, aged forty-five years, both residing in Le Havre, The witnesses signed with us after reading was done, the declarant having said he did not know how upon being asked. The present Certificate made in duplicate in their presence and recorded according to the Law by Us deputy to Mr. the Mayor of the City of Le Havre fulfilling by delegation the functions of public Officer of the Civil Status. John Bude Thomas Cony [Signature]”
Scribe AI is not interactive. You upload a document or image, and it provides an analysis, but there’s no interactive capability; you receive what it chooses to provide, which is a lot.
After the free trial, if you don’t have a MyHeritage subscription, you can likely achieve the same thing, but in a multi-step process, with one of the major AI facilities like Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude.
This week’s FMP additions offer a unique look at professional women in the interwar period and specialized religious records, alongside a diverse expansion of the newspaper archive.