A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF AN EASY TO MISSINTERPRET PHOTO I came across this gorgeous portrait a couple of years ago while admiring the...

Mary O'Connell Bianconi was born in County Clare, Ireland in 1896 to Arabella O'Connell Bianconi and John Coppinger O'Connell Bianconi....

Anna Maria Carolina Sandström born 3 September 1854, Stockholm and passed 26 May 1931, in Stockholm; was a Swedish feminist, reform...

Born Jannetje Johanna (Jo) Schaft (16 September 1920 – 17 April 1945), she was a Dutch communist resistance fighter during World War II....

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM was a secret agent during the Second World War. Living in Marseilles with her French industrialist...

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to...

I have been a member of My Heritage MH, since I first started researching my family in 2009. It was the first genealogy site I subscribed...

Princess Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (known as Ena) was born on October 24, 1887, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, the only...

Portrait colorization of Denis George Wyldbore Hewitt (1897-1917), born at 103 Park Street, Mayfair, London on 18th December 1897. His...

Portrait Colorization of Captain Ferdinand "Freddie" West, the first RAF pilot to be awarded a Victoria Cross (VC) Hailed as a First...

Daisy, Princess of Pless (Mary Theresa Olivia; née Cornwallis-West; 28 June 1873 – 29 June 1943) was a noted society beauty in the...

Portrait colourisation of Blanche Monnier, a tragic French socialite who was locked in a dark room by her mother and brother for 25...

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest...

Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerc Joy - known as Princess Salm-Salm, or Princess Agnes , was born in Franklin, Vermont on December 25th,...

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Cecilie Auguste Marie; 20 September 1886 – 6 May 1954) was the last German Crown Princess and...

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (canonized as Holy Martyr Elizabeth...

Dora Petrova Gabe (August 16, 1886 – November 16, 1983) was а Bulgarian Jewish poet. She published poetry for adults and children as well...

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sibylla Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora), the mother of the current King of Sweden, Carl...

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. Born into a Jewish family in the small village of Sappemeer in...

Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska), also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, nom de guerre "Jolanta" (15 February 1910 – 12 May...