Leveraging FamilySearch Memories
I totally understand that there are indeed pain points and challenges in this area.
One of my favorite videos on the subject is this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRSRZ9amlM
It is rather long - so before you watch it – please continue down with the below:
I do understand the pain points of collaboration as it is currently in FamilySearch - and I do look forward to FamilySearch continuing to make changes that allow for people having more confidence that the work they do won’t be undone by someone else.
I had written various posts on the subject of the matter in the old community - but they were lost in the upgrade conversion (grrrrrrrrr)
I will try to resurrect some of my thoughts and analysis on the matter with this and other subsequent posts
BUT one thing that I again and again go back to - is how much we can all so often leverage FamilySearch Memories - to not only preserve our own research - but preserve it in a way that even 10 years from now - it will still be in the same exact format that we left it.
In other words - how to upload versions of our research and documents - in ways that we don’t have to worry about others totally destroying or wreaking havoc on our documents - our research – our compilations - our family histories.
Here are just a FEW of hundreds of examples of items that I have uploaded to FamilySearch - so as to preserve such research in tact - - - whether it was my own - or someone else’s.
Pedigree
charts in pdf format from a person's own local
database - based on what they consider to be correct:
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/56940175?cid=mem_copy
Family
Group sheets in pdf format
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/59341074?cid=mem_copy
Descendants
Charts
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/56940129?cid=mem_copy
Family
Albums
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/59358267?cid=mem_copy
Research
Notes
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/80263033?cid=mem_copy
Life
Histories
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/60676275?cid=mem_copy
Family
Bibles
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/59354074?cid=mem_copy
Digital
Community Histories
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/59341078?cid=mem_copy
Discussion
of Fraudulant or erroneous info
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/gallery/album/703092
Discussion
of common errors and myths
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/105655021?cid=mem_copy
Discussions
of theories as to Family Origins
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/78243294?cid=mem_copy
Newspaper
Accounts
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/60350121?cid=mem_copy
Copies
of entire digital books that are in the public domain (this
one example of 245 pages on a simgle pdf)
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/104009807?cid=mem_copy
Family
Photo Albums
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/67120918?cid=mem_copy
Oral
Interviews (audio)
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/52597429?cid=mem_copy
Music
Recordings
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/52679766?cid=mem_copy
Recorded
news accounts (audio)
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/107025974?cid=mem_copy
Poetry
(audio)
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/76061763?cid=mem_copy
Funeral
Recordings (audio)
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/94142327?cid=mem_copy
School
Year Book data
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/88850987?cid=mem_copy
Speeches
(audio)
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/99949447?cid=mem_copy
Funeral
Cards
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/129281073?cid=mem_copy
Needlework
Samplers with Family info
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/64400184?cid=mem_copy
Family
Registers
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/103371876?cid=mem_copy
Fraktur
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/97903654?cid=mem_copy
an example of a nearly 3,000 page pdf document in FS Memories
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/158125480?cid=mem_copy
and
even links to online VIDEO
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/128545977?cid=mem_copy
Even Family tree data in GEDCOM
format (from a local trusted familytree database on your computer)
see: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Pedigree_Resource_File