Feature request: Albums need to be add-able to a person's Memories page
Albums are the only place I really have control over how I want to re-order and curate a Person's photos, documents, stories, and audio files, with the added benefit of a slideshow option.
But Albums are very difficult to find if a link isn't intentionally shared with someone, and there is no way to know an Album even exists by just looking at a Person's Memories page.
There really needs to be a way to add an Album to a Person's Memories in the same way photos, documents, stories, and audio can be added.
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When I add images to a specific album I created, and then tag the image with all the names of people who are associated with that image, I can see the album name as a link in each of those person's memories. If you click the link to the album you can scroll through all the images in it. See attached screen shot.
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Thank you Gail. That's helpful, and I really appreciate your quick response!
I'll still keep this as a feature request to the development team to please make Albums show up on a Person's Memories page the way Photos, Documents, Stories, and Audios do. Here's why.
My father-in-law, for instance, appears in multiple albums my wife created. Each album curates photos, documents, stories, and audios from a different stage of his life.
In order for me to find those albums I have to know that I need to go to his Memories page and then I have to click through random multiple images to get to the detail view of each photo that shows which album that photo is in. There is no "master" list of albums for my father-in-law in his profile, so I don't know which albums exist beyond the one this individual photo is part of.
This is an extremely clunky way to make albums findable to future generations, especially for people who are not well-versed in the quirks of how FamilySearch works.
Also, in a memories/find search, albums look just like photos, so there is nothing to differentiate them and let the person searching know it's an album. I realize you can uncheck all other file types and only show albums, but, again, this puts an undue burden on future generations who may not have deep expertise in FamilySearch.
The bottom line is that it shouldn't be daunting to find albums, but currently it is unless I know the exact search term to put in quotes, which future generations can't be expected to know, OR I need to know that I can possibly find an album by clicking on random photos in Memories and looking to see if there's an album listed in the image details, which was not at all obvious to us for a long time as we were learning FamilySearch. I can't expect my great grandchild to know that much when they go looking for my albums 75 years from now.
This issue is an example of "the curse of knowledge" on the part of people who know a software platform inside out, and it's the enemy of effective user-interface/user-experience (UI/UX) for any software platform.
Albums are one of the best features in FamilySearch. Assets can reordered, and albums are perfect for curating someone's story in a very effective way. They just need to be more easily discoverable for others!
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yes - The possibility of adding albums to a person record is one that I also have wished for and probably even actually requested before.
We'll see if it ever comes to fruition.
another thing that I have often wondered about - is - in the same way that a person can create an album - and include it in any number of Memories items
why cant we create albums or "virtual folders" - of PEOPLE Records - that have a common theme or subject.
like
"All My aunts & Uncles"
"All the people in location X that I am researching"
"Civil War Soldiers I am collecting"
in other words - albums not based on photos or memories items
but albums based on PEOPLE RECORDS inside FamilyTree.
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