Issue 34.14
Celebrate and share your family heritage in a way that is only possible through photographs. At FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/photos/ you can upload your photos to be preserved indefinitely. Preserve and share precious family memories, Connect with generations past, share memories with loved ones in the present and preserve your family legacy for the future.
I was helping my neighbor with FamilySearch the other day and she was so excited to see her husband’s ancestor’s photos. She had never seen them before and she didn’t think he had either. There was a photo of a home in Virginia that had been lived in by the first immigrant to the United States from their family. There were photos of headstones and paintings of the ancestor even back before photography was invented. Those priceless pictures have a way of turning the hearts to the people who lived before. They are all freely available to view and the only thing it costs to upload your own photos is time.
FamilySearch has invested in simple, powerful tools to help you tell your family story. These personal reminders of loved ones and days gone by add life to your family tree and help link the generations. FamilySearch provides these tools to preserve, identify, and share these priceless family treasures.
You most likely will find linked to your family tree, photos that have been uploaded by others. When you click on Memories and then People, you will have a preference option to choose either Photos added by: ME (which will be YOU unless you really did hire me to do it) or another option is Added by: TREE, which means the photo was uploaded by someone else. The final option is Added by: ALL which shows them all. Those added by people besides you will have an orange ribbon across the lower right corner.
It makes Family History more interesting when you can look at the photos and pick out your chin, your eyes or your smile. If you have family photographs in a box, now is a great time to get them out and start scanning, uploading and sharing.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com (435) 628-4900.