Church’s Gospel Media Library Redesigned
The Church’s Gospel Media library (formerly LDS Media Library) has been redesigned to make it easier to find, download, and share thousands of videos, images, music, audio, PDFs, and ebooks. The Gospel Media library has a simple design, which you can access...
Digitize What’s Important to You
I just finished a project to digitize all my old audiocassettes, videocassettes (home movies), and 8mm tapes to digital. I wish I had done it years ago, because the images and sound had faded a lot. Digital will last forever without degradation if you store it...
How to Store Old Photos and Preserve Precious Memories
by Wendy Dessler at MamasLikeMe.com Almost every family has precious papers and artifacts they’d like to pass from one generation to the next. They can include old family photos, war medals awarded to older family generations, or a century-old original birth...
Updated LDS Media Library App 2.0
The LDS Media Library app—the mobile app version of the LDS Media Library on LDS.org—has been updated with easier searches, media trimming, customizable presentations, and offline use. With the LDS Media Library app, you can search the largest selection of Church...
How to Import Photos to FamilySearch from Google, Facebook, Instagram
FamilySearch makes it easy to import photos from Facebook, Instagram, and Google Photos to your Family Tree Memories page on FamilySearch. You may have posted photos to Facebook or Instagram and now want to add them to the Memories page of a person on FamilySearch....
6 Steps to Digitizing Your Family Photos
Do you have boxes of old photos in your closet? So, what do you do with all these old photos? Digitize them! Read the article “Six Steps to Digitizing Your Family Photos” for 6 easy steps to get the job done. Lean how to: Organize before you digitize....
5 Reasons to Digitize Your Family Photos
Have you been avoiding digitizing your old family photos because you feel overwhelmed? Sorting your photos into smaller piles can help you get organized. The article “Five Reasons to Digitize Your Family Photos” explains five big reasons you should...
Preserving Your Digital Memories
In today’s digital age, photos, videos, and other records are digital. In the past, we worried about paper photographs and home movie films fading over time. But today, the biggest threat is losing the digital bits and bytes that make up these precious files. My...
Preserving Electronic Family History Information
For many of us, the biggest threat to the safety of our family history information may not be papers yellowing with age or photos fading in the sunlight but instead the possibility of our computer crashing or our phone dying a painful death in the washing machine....
Importing Pictures from Facebook & Instagram to FamilySearch.org
A new feature on FamilySearch.org lets you share your Instagram and Facebook photos directly to FamilySearch. This new integration makes it is easy to choose which photos from your social networks you’d like to link to people in Family Tree and preserve for...
Help Tag Photos to Make Images on LDS.org Easier to Find
Volunteers are needed to help tag more than a million images in the LDS Media Library on LDS.org with information that makes them easier to find. For years, the Church has collected images submitted by member photographers. Now that there are more than a million...
Quotations from Saints at Devil’s Gate Book
In January I wrote about the book Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail. The book has 52 beautiful landscape paintings illustrating the trail of the Mormon pioneers with quotations from the pioneers who made the journey. The paintings and quotes...
Saints at Devil’s Gate Book and Online Exhibit
The Church has published a new art book about the Mormon Trail: Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail. This book features 52 contemporary landscape paintings of the trail with quotations from pioneers who made the journey. Accompanying the book is...
LDS Online Exhibit “Behold My Beloved Son”
The Church History Museum has created a new online exhibit titled “Behold My Beloved Son: The Savior in the Americas.” The artwork portrays the mercy and majesty of Christ’s triumphant appearance to His people in the western hemisphere. The new exhibit focuses on...
