by Larry Richman | Dec 14, 2022
Photos can connect us with our families in unique ways. However, photos are perishable. How do you preserve photos from that old shoebox or album before they start to fade or disintegrate? The article “Photo Preservation for Family History” provides tips...
by Larry Richman | Jun 24, 2021
The Church publishes three global magazines—the Friend (for children), For the Strength of Youth (for youth), and the Liahona (for adults). The printed magazines come in beautiful graphic layouts. But when you read the magazines on the Church website or on the Gospel...
by Family Search | May 28, 2020
From the FamilySearch blog: Throughout our lives, we accumulate a lot of items—old journals, faded photos, treasured heirlooms, day-to-day documents. And in the wake of losing a loved one, it can be overwhelming to sift through all this information and try to preserve...
by Larry Richman | May 19, 2020
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...
by Larry Richman | Jan 27, 2020
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...
by Larry Richman | Aug 5, 2019
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...
by Larry Richman | Jun 19, 2018
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...
by Larry Richman | Nov 20, 2017
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....
by Larry Richman | Jun 19, 2017
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....
by Larry Richman | Jun 6, 2017
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...
by Larry Richman | May 25, 2017
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...
by Larry Richman | May 5, 2017
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....
by Larry Richman | May 2, 2017
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...
by Larry Richman | Apr 25, 2017
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...
by Larry Richman | Apr 19, 2017
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...
