When the 1000Memories site was announced last year, I abstained from trying it out because I was too busy and I was still working out my Photo naming convention and had photos in many different file folders.
However, I have a need to share family photographs with my daughters, brothers, cousins and in-laws, so I decided to try it out about one month ago. I really like it!!!
After registering for free, I created several albums for different families, and was able to upload photographs to several albums. I then added dates, places, name tags and comments to the photos, and invited some of my family members to view them.
There were several albums that I did not populate that first time around, but now I'm ready to do that, and I thought I would share my experience.
1) When I open my 1000Memories website (www.1000memories.com), I see the Albums that I have created:
2) I wanted to add photographs from my files to the "Fred and Betty Seaver Family" album, so I clicked on that album on the screen above:
There are several ways to upload photos to the site:
* Use the red "Add Photos" button to add photos from computer files
* Scan photos from the iPhone of ScanCafe
* Import photos from Facebook or InstaGram.
3) I wanted to upload them from my computer files, so I clicked on the "Add Photos" button and was able to pick from my file folders:
4) I clicked on the "Open" button and the selected photos were added (very quickly) to the album:
5) For each photo, I can click on it and add a Date, a Place, tag the persons in the photo, and write a Comment:
In the photo above, I added a date, added a place, and tagged the people in the photograph. I can make a picture the album cover, and I did that for the photo above.
6) Lastly, I can Invite family members to view each specific album by clicking on the "Invite people" button. I can invite one or more persons by adding their name or email address in the blank field:
This works extremely well, it's well organized, and logical.
I can now share my family photographs with other family members easily. I've added over 580 photos to my albums, and still have more to do. I need to add the date, place, tag information to some of them.
I love this capability. It has made photo sharing a snap for me.
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Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2023.
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Thank you for the update, Randy. I really should give it a try. From your description, it is just what I have been looking for. ;-)
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