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How to Record Family Stories & Photos

A family history priority is gathering stories & records from family members while we still can. This Thanksgiving my mother-in-law started talking about her ancestors from Norway. She's the oldest living relative on her side of the family and she was telling stories from her childhood no other living family would know or remember. We panicked and asked for a Thanksgiving Day redo. After picking up her family albums, we asked her to tell us what she remembered about each photo and we recorded her stories, scanned the photos, and uploaded them to FamilySearch on their Memories page. A great place to record and store family stories is FamilySearch. It's completely free and there's never a charge for storing photos, audio files, or stories. Even better, anyone who creates a free FamilySearch account can search the entire body of tagged photos/stories/documents, so it's an easy way to share with extended family (rather than using Dropbox, etc). &nb…

Family History Month Day 27 – TinEye Reverse Image Search for Genealogy

On Day 27 of Family History Month try TinEye for Reverse Image Lookup. If you have an image in your digital files and you don't know the source of the image, you can upload it to TinEye and let them search for a match online. The searches and image returns are free. "Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image search. You can do that by uploading an image, or searching by URL. You can also simply drag and drop your images to start your search." "TinEye constantly crawls the web and adds images to its index. Today, the TinEye index is over 23.2 billion images." I had a map in my digital files but didn't label the image with the website where I found the map. I uploaded the image to TinEye and let them search for matches. In the picture below, TinEye found two matches on the internet and the second match, www.antiquemapsandprints.com, was whe…

RootsTech 2018 registration and other September specials!

RootsTech 2018 registration opens Wednesday, September 20th! Read the FamilySearch media release for more details and discounted pricing Visit the OnGenealogy Events page for updates and hotel information If you can't attend in SLC, we'll share their livestreaming, free class list when it's announced! Save Your Photos Month is wrapping up! SaveYourPhotos.org has a link to events worldwide. Visit their site for resources on how to save and protect your photos. Some fun ideas for September from the web include: Rachel LaCour Niesen's "A Professional Genealogist's Tips for Uncovering Family History in Old Photos" AncestralFindings' "How to Make Sure the Story of Your Family Heirlooms Don't Get Lost" FamilyTree's "Create a Family Newsletter" Family Locket's review of Family History Subscription Boxes for Kids StoryboardThat has free and subscription versions of the…