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A post on Facebook claims that a 103-year-old woman gave birth to a baby after many years of praying, fasting and crying. The photo shows an elderly woman cradling a baby in a hospital bed. The post has racked up more than 6 million views in the past four months – but is the story true? Woman is child’s great-grandmother There are a number of ways to track down the origin of an image shared online. One way is to do a Google reverse image search. This involves uploading the image to Google Image or, on some devices, right-clicking the image and selecting search Google for image. This will return a number of webpages where the image has been posted. Using this method, Africa Check was able to determine that the photo was taken in the American city of Phenix, Alabama , on 17 March 2015. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the photo shows Rosa Camfield, 101, cradling her newborn great-granddaughter. Camfield died just weeks later, on 30 March. She became a social media sensation, the paper says, when the photo was shared online. Read our guide for more tips on how to verify images online. – Africa Check
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