{"id":38136,"date":"2025-08-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/?p=38136"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:14:12","slug":"family-history-image-transformations-mcp-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/family-history-image-transformations-mcp-servers","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering Family History With Cloudinary\u2019s Image Transformations and MCP Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s a peculiar human desire to reconnect with their past by looking for clues in family trees. Did you get that sass from Great-Aunt Edna, who, to her dying day, declined to share her prized German Potato Salad recipe? Did you get those baby blue eyes from your Mom\u2019s side of the family? In a country like the U.S., shaped by waves of immigration and where people tend to move frequently in search of opportunity, it\u2019s easy to lose track of where we came from in pursuit of where we\u2019re going (next).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I\u2019ve been digging through archives to flesh out my family\u2019s genealogical history a bit, using the interesting software offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/ancestry.com\">Ancestry.com<\/a>, a company that helps you build out your family tree. One thing I found was photos attached to the tree are few and far between. They\u2019re a pain to scan and upload, and these paper fragments often are damaged. For this reason I\u2019ve been happy to experiment with ways to upscale and enhance these images using AI, and I discovered a little key to the past while doing so!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found that my ninth great-grandmother was the famous Rebecca Nurse Towne, hanged as a witch during the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s. So there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413277\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Sample of what family trees look like on Ancestry.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Something Old, Something New<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While digging through Ancestry\u2019s pages, I discovered an image I hadn\u2019t seen before of my great-grandparents, Elmer Dove and Blanche Bartlett Dove:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413278\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>While the image is pretty crisp, I put it through a workflow that I built to help my research: enhancing the images using AI to get a few more details from them. To do this, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/block.github.io\/goose\/\">Goose<\/a>, a new tool by Block to interface with LLMs and MCP servers so that you can simply do your work locally without battling tooling. This was exactly what I needed to enhance the images I found on Ancestry right from a desktop app, chatting with Goose via Gemini, my LLM of choice. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cloudinary\/mcp-servers\">Cloudinary\u2019s MCP servers<\/a> work very well with Goose; here\u2019s how to start using them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get set up to use Goose with Cloudinary\u2019s MCPs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/block.github.io\/goose\/docs\/mcp\/cloudinary-asset-management-mcp\/\">Download Goose<\/a> for free and take a look at how it interfaces with Cloudinary\u2019s MCP servers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/block.github.io\/goose\/extensions\/\">Install the Cloudinary extension<\/a> by searching for Cloudinary and pressing <strong>Install<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add your Cloudinary URL to the extension\u2019s settings (find the URL by going to the console in Cloudinary and looking for the API key section, where the URL is listed: <code>CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary:\/\/&lt;your_api_key&gt;:&lt;your_api_secret&gt;@&lt;your_account_name&gt;<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For ease of upload, I added an <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/documentation\/upload_presets\">upload preset<\/a> so that all the images in this task will go to a folder.<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413277\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-3.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Configure your LLM of choice using an appropriate API key as outlined by Goose (I use Gemini).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413277\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-4.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you can start chatting with Goose via your LLM. Tell it to upload images straight from Ancestry paths (which you can get by right-clicking an image in Ancestry) and transform them to bring these pictures into better focus:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413277\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-5.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I was amazed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/front-end-foxes\/image\/upload\/e_gen_restore,e_upscale\/ancestors\/lgvobvhueqgvziibxr5t.jpg\">image quality<\/a>, and even learned something about Great-Grandfather Elmer:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413278\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-6.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>With this enhanced image, my eye was caught by the little silver axe pinned to the lapel. Some research using ChatGPT found that this signifies membership in the Modern Woodmen Association, a proto life-insurance type organization still in existence that pooled members\u2019 assets in case of death, so that the widow would be taken care of. Given that this photo was taken in the 1890s in Nebraska, and documentation mentions his membership in this organization, this checks out, but I never would have made the connection without the little symbol that shows clearly in the enhanced photo. It\u2019s delightful to see these little humanizing elements pop out from the past. Also that\u2019s a cool moustache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I tried a transformation of my formidable Great-Grandmother Schoenleber, n\u00e9e Isermann, on the other side of the family. This lady went on to be the mother of twelve, including a set of twins, one of whom was my Grandfather. German farm wives do not mess around. I was thrilled to use Goose and the Cloudinary MCP server to go from this grainy photo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413280\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-7.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u2026to this with some AI enhancement, restoration and brightening, with her amazing spit curls, elaborate lace and earrings on full display:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-marketing-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/v1754413280\/blog-Uncovering_Family_History_With_Cloudinary_s_Image_Transformations_and_MCP_Servers-8.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, it\u2019s a wonderful experience to \u201cspeak\u201d to your ancestors via these old photographs. 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