Agreement. You also acknowledge that any images you upload become part of the collection hosted by FamilySearch.org, which is publicly viewable and accessible by anyone online. You will be able to remove images you have contributed to FamilySearch.org, but FamilySearch.org is under no obligation to monitor or inhibit the use of contributed images by others. Currently we support JPG, PNG, TIF and BMP files. Quick Overview of Photos
Before starting to work with photos a person needs to
understand that Photos does not work like the rest of
Family Tree. Understanding these issues may not
alleviate your frustrations, but it helps deal with the
issues.
At the end of this lesson under advanced issues, there
are some work-a-rounds for some the problems this
creates.
1. The Photos product is partially open edit. You can
make some changes but the contributor has to make
most of the changes.
A. If someone incorrectly places a photo on your
ancestor you can unlink it from Family Tree.
B. If a tag does not show the whole face, only the
contributor can change it.
The photos team is presently working on a fix that
would make photos more open edit.
After one photo is added the photo agreement will no
longer appear. The photo agreement is found on the
page where photos are added and only shows up once.
2. It is extremely difficult to find out any contact
You may not see it on your page if you have already
information, so if something is wrong it is difficult to added a photo. When you click the button to add
contact the contributor. If the contributor wants to
photos, on the right hand side there are guidelines and a
be anonymous they are not contactable at all. You
submission agreement.
can make a comment at the bottom of the photo and this comment will be sent to the contributor.
1. To add photos you need to go to the following web
The purpose of assignment #1 is just to look at photos
site
and become familiar with the screens. Adding actual
https://familysearch.org
photos will come later on.
2. Sign in
Before adding any photos to Family Tree you will be
required to accept the Photos Agreement.
By continuing with the upload process, you confirm that you have the right and/or permission to share any images you submit, and you agree to the terms and conditions of the FamilySearch Content Submission 3. Five links show at the top of the page
1 A.
B.
C.
D.
Family Tree: Family Tree main page
Memories: Photos, documents and stories
Search: FamilySearch home records search
Indexing: link to index records.
E. Temple: Links to the temple reservation page
Photos
Photos Beginning
The beginning page for photos has some fun activities
for the first time user and for family activities.
Under the photos tab all of photos are found in the order
they were entered.
If there are very many photos at the bottom of the page
is a link to Show all Photos.
6. Click on Stories.
4. Mouse over Memories tab and there are 7 items in
the pull down.
5. Click on Photos and the pull down menu becomes
inactive and the same tabs are located on the top left
Under stories you can see all the stories that you have
of the screen.
entered about your ancestors. I do not have any way to
show examples, because I am waiting for the ability to
enter stories as PDF files.
7. Click on Documents.
2 8. Click on People.
Documents can include anything that provides evidence
about events in your ancestor’s life. The above A pull down menu lets you select your people by three
documents have a red exclamation point by them, and categories.
this is because they are entered as a source and not a
link to Family Tree.
8. Click on Audio.
All audio files that you have entered are displayed.
To show all audio files click Show All.
3 Photos added by me shows all photos that I have
entered and tagged to the system.
The red exclamation point shows that this person has
not been linked to the tree.
This graphic shows how I am related to Hugh Barnes.
The above graphic shows my close relatives.
The gold banner is a link to show how the individual is The graphic above shows a segment of All People. The
photos with a gold banner are individuals that are
related to you.
directly related to me. Photos without the banner are
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banner either.
My wife doesn’t have a gold
Entering Photos
Photos can be entered either from Memories on a
person details page (Individuoa memories) or from
Memories at the FamilySearch level (global memories).
When photos are entered from Memories on the Person
Details Page they are immediately linked to the
individual and one does not need to search to find the
individual. I find this way of linking a photo to be
easier and cause fewer user errors.
The above graphic shows an album with pictures of
everyone who has been a bishop and another one with
everyone who has had a beard.
10. Mouse over Memories at the FamilySearch level
and click on Albums.
You can create as many albums as you like. The album
is a way to navigate through photos and discover other
photos. There are no rules about what you put in
albums.
Graphic showing Memories from FamilySearch level
I personally may use an album to identify where I got
my photos. If I’m uploading all the photos that Aunt
Clara gave me, I might want to make an album labeled
Aunt Clara’s Collection and place each photo in it.
There may also be some event, like my Grandfather’s
missionary photos, and I want to put them all in an
album. If you haven’t uploaded any photos at all, you
can still make an album and put in stories and photos
that mean something to you and share it with your
family.
The album is not meant to organize your photos. You
may store a single photo in multiple albums. For
The above graphic shows Memories from the Person
example a group photo of a family could be stored in
Details Page. There are 16 memories associated with
Henry. These could be photos, stories or documents. several albums, one created for each of the children.
On the bottom left is an Add button.
9. Click on one of the individuals in your tree and go to
their person details page. Find the Memories link
and click on it. Notice that photos can be added
from this page. Practice switching back and forth
between Memories and Details.
The tab find allows for searches to be made.
5 Stories show all stories entered by anyone that fits the
search criteria.
Find all displays photos, stories and Document entered
by anyone that fits the search criteria.
Documents show all documents entered by anyone that
fits the search criteria.
At present none of the material entered into the three
categories is labeled and therefore can’t be searched.
Find Photos shows all of the photos entered by anyone
that fits the search criteria.
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