Lots of FamilySearch.org is looking. Peeking at the past, checking out the "memories" (photos, documents and stories) for ancestors who have passed away. But another part of FamilySearch.org is adding pictures and memories for the future. So that was the challenge this week ...
Adding a photo is pretty easy - go to your profile, go to "Memories" and from there you have the option to upload a photo, a document, or paste in text for a story (pictures can be included here as well). There are even options to add audio! On the computer/web, there is an "upload" button, on the app, there is a + sign in a green circle.
Janelle won the speed challenge, one minute faster than Conner. Janelle returned her result in three minutes!! If you look at the original collage below, Janelle was SO fast she took her screenshot and submitted it to Chris as it was still processing on FamilySearch. Wendy provided another clearer image ;) If we had a "family participation" award, Wendy got that again, all except for Jared this time.
Mom/Margie wrote: Just remind the kids and parents that to count, the kids need to be the ones doing "the driving" on the computer. Parents can verbally teach or write down the steps for the kids to follow, but we want the kids to learn by doing. You just don't learn and remember when you just see it demonstrated. Of course Layla and Noe can't handle it by themselves yet. And we parents have to give them time to think and reason out the next steps. That's how we were trained as missionaries to help people. We weren't supposed to touch the computer or do it for them, even when it got frustrating. And parents have to be careful to not verbally tell the next steps so fast the child can't think on their own. I know Dad and I tend to give the next steps too quickly. I've been on the receiving end of Dad's so quick instructions that I didn't have time to think on my own and I didn't learn or remember the steps.
Wendy commented: It was Jenna who showed Jase and Ellen and Jared how to do it, not the other way around, ha ha!
Chris: Also, I think it’s an important skill to know that each picture needs a title, and a date, and a location, and it can have a description, and be related to an album, and have topic tags, etc. Faces labeled also. I noticed that most of the entries did not have any of those.
Perhaps that should have been part of the challenge (or a future challenge) - to add titles/information and tagging to photos in Family Search. But it is fun to have new photos added ... although no one else can see them yet! While a person is alive, all the memories remain private, and can only be accessed by others later on.
One of the options on the Fan Chart shows how many photos have been uploaded.
Interesting to see, and we're lucky to have quite a few photos of our ancestors!
How many "memories" can you have? A person in Family Search can have up to 1,000 memories tagged to him or her. No limit exists for the number of tags for a given photo or document. So upload away! Your ancestors will be happy for a peek at your past!
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