FamilySearch Family Tree Memories

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1 FamilySearch Family Tree Memories Photos, Stories, Documents, & Audio in YOUR Family Tree By Margie Tripp

2 FamilySearch Family Tree Memories Photos Stories Documents Audio People Albums Find Your personal gallery Functions of Family Tree Your Name

3 Your Name Click Memories top of any page to see ALL photos & documents in your galleries Shows how many Photos See ALL memories Attached to a particular person on their Memories page Memory not tagged Two places to see Memories

4 Your Name

5 Photos Photographs (portraits) Digital (scanned) images Uploaded to your memories Describe them Tag them Attach to people in the Family Tree See photos in: Albums People Find

6 Upload photographs Your Name

7 Click on the green square & document folder appears Area around square will turn green Double click to select photo or drag picture to green area from desk top

8 A square appears with the word Completed Double click on Completed to tag the photo Your Name

9 Your Name Click to edit or enter a caption here Rotate image before attaching Viewer Window

10 Your Name Click Save to save caption! Add a Description here Viewer Window

11 Your Name Tag a Photo Click on face See circle Drag circle around face Identify the person by typing the name

12 Your Name Name identified But not attached to his Memories yet Click the name

13 PID Number See drop-down menu Click Attach to Family Tree Box appears to identify him by name or PID.

14 We see the picture we have attached in Charles Memories Your Name

15 Your Name Tag Charles Charles D Click to place in album. Add a story about photo. Identify event depicted. Note that the name, life span, and PID are now identified. Another picture for Charles Once a person is tagged, any future picture for that person will automatically be placed in Memories on his Person Page. Select his name from a drop-down menu that will appear.

16 Change a portrait on the Person Page Double click on photo Portrait will change only for you! Your Name

17 Click to set your preferred portrait Your Name

18 New portrait

19 Questions about Photos?

20 Documents Documents Official papers that provide vital information about your ancestor Digitized (scanned) Uploaded to your memories Tagged Attached to people in the Family Tree See documents in Albums Find Used as Sources

21 Documents and Photos Use same methods To create To upload Use same viewer window To tag, name, describe etc. Have same functions Both seen in Albums, Find, People But have different types of tagging Photos: circles Documents: rectangles

22 Your Name Completed Documents in Memories Click on + Green square appears Area turns green Drag document from desktop Or double click on document when file appears See box, top left Double click on completed Adding a Document

23 Your Name Viewer Window Description

24 Herta s information appears. She has been previously tagged

25 Questions about Documents?

26 Stories Digital text files Added to your Memories Tagged Attached to people in the Family Tree See them in: Albums Find Stories

27 Stories, Document & Photos Different methods To create To upload Same viewer (click on the + to add) Two places to add and see them Life Sketch, Memories Tagging is different Stories: None Documents (rectangles) Photos: (circles)

28 Adding Stories Start with Memories, drop down to Stories Click on the + (story window opens) Type in or copy/paste your story Add title, picture from your photo gallery Story is now stored in stories gallery Go to any Person Page, Memories tab Click on Add a Story (Person s Memories) Takes you to your Memories/Stories gallery Click box to select the story you want Click on Add Story (goes to the person you started with) Or, write a Life Sketch

29 Create stories in your Memories gallery

30 Your Name Attach Photo Add a Title Type, or copy/paste a story here

31 Your Photo Gallery Appears Click on photo Then Add

32 Attach a story to Elisabeth s Memories

33 Your Name Story will attach to Elisabeth because we started on her page Add Stories Select Story

34 Back to Elisabeth s Stories Story we have added Click to read

35 Your Name Comments Only You can edit your own stories. Other people can only leave comments.

36 Your Name A Story About Abel Tagging Stories Add People Abel Evans View story in Attach to Family Tree Delete You may remove or add a tag View Memories for this person Story Options

37 KWJC-W2W Tag and attach story to Abel s wife

38 New Story in Memories for Abel s wife

39 Your Name Write a Life Sketch Up to 10,000 characters Copy/paste, or type About 1500 words

40 Questions about Stories?

41 Audio Digital audio files (.mp3 or.m4a) Voice or other (limited to 15 MB per file) Added to your memories Tagged Attached to people in the Family Tree Hear them in Albums Find Audio I have not yet added (nor seen other) audios.

42 No questions please about Audios Ask your child or grandchild

43 What Can You Do With Albums, People, & Find? Albums (Create) Organize documents, photos, & stories in albums People See your ancestors uploaded by others See your relationship to these people See photos, documents and stories about these ancestors Find (like a google search) Look for documents, photos, stories about your ancestors

44 Albums Memories: Albums Each album may contain photos, stories, audio files, and documents A memory may be placed in several albums Use Albums to organize by family (surname), topic, or??

45 Your Name Used to organize memories Also used to view all albums Use to organize Memories

46 Your Name Double click to see inside Create a new album How many photos in your album

47 A look at Otto & Herta s Family Album

48 Robert Brey Family Robert Henry Brey and is descendants

49 Your Name Click on an album to add Memories Your gallery will open Select photos to add to the current album scroll

50 Your Name This photo in two albums Viewer Window

51 People Memories: People In People see photos of ancestors added by people other than yourself Images in People can be seen in: Photos, Stories, and Documents and throughout FamilySearch program See your relationship to your ancestors

52 Click a face twice See Julia s Memories 161 Click the View My Relationship icon See how you are related to this person

53 Your Name Clicking on name takes you to her page This page lets you see Julia s photos, documents, stories and audio -- her Memories

54 James Robert Tripp You By clicking on Alva Alexander s View My Relationship icon we see how we are related to him.

55 Memories: Find Find Not a search to find people in a pedigree chart or to find records about a person Is a search to Find Memories of people Search for words in titles and descriptions (pioneers, immigrant, John Stevens, Los Angeles etc.) Search for words in the text of stories Search for places and dates in events Search for names of people

56 Find Memories: Functions Search Memories whether or not you are logged into FamilySearch Search FamilySearch Memories using a Google-type search Be careful about what you put in memories, other people can see it Don t put in descriptions with vague terms: My dad, or Ole s cousin

57 Find Memories COUNCIL BLUFFS Narrow your search We Find all stories in which the word Council Bluffs is mentioned.

58 Questions about People, Albums, Find?

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