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a Memories upload - should I make it a photo or a document

Dennis J Yancey
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December 31, 2021 edited January 7, 2022 in Memories

FS Memories allows you to convert an image item from Photo to Document or vice versa.

I understand that an image of a Family Bible etc might be a good example of one you could convert to "Document" because its an image of a document (and not an image of a person)

Having said that though - what are some of the real motivating reasons for converting an item from photo to document? (What does it then allow me to accomplish or do)???


I almost get the impression that the real underlying reason that the convert to document option existed originally - may no longer be a reason for having the option in todays (now different) world. But that the option is still there as a vestige of the past. But it doesnt really accomplish much,

i.e. (what difference does it make if a given item shows up in the photo section or the document section???)

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  • Sue Maxwell
    Sue Maxwell ✭
    December 31, 2021

    The two different buckets for posting in memories are to separate images of the person from images of documents.

    For example, if you write a story you can save it in documents in a pdf format. Or, you can take an picture of a written story and add it to documents. Either way works. So the issue is not the format of what you want to post, but rather whether it is a picture of the people, or if it has to do with documenting the people.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 1, 2022 edited January 1, 2022
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/416859#Comment_416859

    I understand that . . .. but still it begs the question

    whats the big deal if I leave an image of a document in the photo section

    or an image of a person in the document section?

    just seems like a very "artificial" segregation.

    if there was some sort of significant "functional difference" then I could understand . . . but I don't see any.


    actually I think there was (early on) some sort of functional difference. But I think that is not really true any more.

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