How to View the Full Graphic Layout of Church Magazines in PDF
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...
Preserve Your Digital Legacy with FamilySearch and Permanent.org
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...
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 Editor’s note: See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” Almost every family has precious papers and artifacts they’d like to pass from one...
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
See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” 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...
5 Reasons to Digitize Your Family Photos
See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” Have you been avoiding digitizing your old family photos because you feel overwhelmed? Sorting your photos into smaller piles can help you get...
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
See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” 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...
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...Follow on social media