When will there be a better solution for sharing memories of living people?
I know that there are concerns for privacy, but it seems like there should be a way to share memories of living people with the living people. For example, I have added many memories of my parents, but no one will see them until they pass away, and my parents won't ever be able to see them. Another example that makes it even more challenging is that currently, my children will never see the memories that I add of them because their profiles won't become public until after they pass away. And to make it even more challenging, who's going to mark their profiles as deceased if I'm already deceased?
I'm still doing it for two reasons. First, I try and have a long term approach to it. Even if my parents or my children never see these memories, I'm hopeful that someone will enjoy them 150 years from now. Second, I have faith that this will eventually get resolved in my lifetime.
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When you sign in to FamilySearch, you can share a memory item on social media, or email it or provide a URL link to it. You can also share a link to an album. Anyone receiving any shared memory items can forward and share the information with others without needing to sign in to FamilySearch.
Shared albums cannot, at present, be incorporated into your memories.
When Memories are uploaded into Family Search, they are immediately potential viewable by the public
To protect the privacy of living people, the contributor has the option of making the memory private
For more detailed information, please click on the below url for the article in the Help Center titled: “How do I share memories I find with Family and Friends”
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what about Ancestry.com
or Facebook?
for sharing info on living persons - where you are in control of who has access.
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There are tons of online social media apps that allow for sharing of family photos and items of shared interest. No reason to wait until people are dead.
of course - that's assuming it is a company/service you trust your personal and private info with . . . and not everyone does . . .
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Thank you for sharing. We definitely do some of the social media apps. I haven't thought about using ancestry.com, so that's definitely an idea to consider. The challenge with some social media apps is whether or not they'll be around in awhile. I like the idea of putting them in a permanent place that can be shared with all of my descendants for years to come. I guess, I've just got to find the balance and not put all my eggs in one basket. Though, I thought I heard rumors that familysearch was trying to tackle this challenge. But maybe that's not the case.
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Oh Im sure FS has been looking at ways to resolve the issue for a long time -
even before they even launched FS more than 10 years ago
the fact that we still dont seem to have a solution that people are totally happy with is a measure of the complexity of both the technology but more the risky legal environment we are in. which is why I feel you are better off looking for alternate solutions that are avilable today as well as ensuring your records are in digital format - so that once either the people are deceased or FS has a solution - you can easily upload the documents.
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another very easy option is box.com or drop box or google docs.
a super easy way to share photos etc. and just restrict to family . . .
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Have you digitized all (or at least a good portion) of your family media??
Thats the first step. and then organizing and grouping
so that you have a central backup - no matter where else you move them to.
You should never trust one site alone to be your backup
you should always have your own copy of it all
and organized it a manner that makes sense for you.
see these sites:
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/digital_library.htm
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/familysearch.htm
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Yes, we have quite a few digitized. Additionally, I'm adding current pictures to familysearch. Thanks for sending those links. I'll definitely check them out.
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When Memories are uploaded into Family Search, they are immediately potential viewable by the public
Who can view the items uploaded in Memories for living people?
To protect the privacy of living people, the contributor has the option of making the memory private
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Reply to Nilda: the problem with "private" is - if anything happens to you - such items will probably be in private more for the rest of eternity - there is no way to make them public once you are gone.
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