# How to find "Families in the Wild" database? \[Lesson 5, facial similarity search example)

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**Created:** [February 17, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/how-to-find-families-in-the-wild-database-lesson-5-facial-similarity-search-example/573361 "2024-02-17T19:53:18Z")\
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I went on a wild-goose chase looking for the “Families in the Wild’ dataset mentioned in the video for this course. I did find a paper entitled “[Families in the Wild (FiW): Large-scale Kinship Image Database and Benchmarks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02182)” posted by a team of researchers at Northeastern University (4-May-2017), but I wasn’t able to find the actual database.

Was there a different data source for this project, perhaps the “[labeled faces in the wild](https://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/)” dataset? Thanks for any help. I ended up manually searching for and downloading images to use instead of those provided, but I’m wondering about the source mentioned in the video. Thanks,