Can multiple pages be added on Memories ?
I'm asking for someone in my ward. She has a history of her grandmother. Can multiple pages be added at once.
If so, how is that done ?
Thank you in advance.
Sister Debra Nowell Amos
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@Debbie Nowell Amos
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Debbie
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Short Answer: 'Yes'.
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There is NO limit.
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Here is a "Knowledge Article" in 'FamilySearch':
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How many memories (photos, stories, documents, and audio files) can I upload?
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Where it states:
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Although FamilySearch does not have a limit to the number of items you can upload to Memories yet, if an account has more than 5,000 memories, the system can perform slowly.
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And, ...
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How do I upload memories to FamilySearch?
https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-upload-photos-or-documents-to-memories
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What rules apply to uploading memories to FamilySearch.org?
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I hope this helps.
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Brett
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I think what you are trying to ask - is whether or not multiple pages can be included in one specific upload - one Memories item - with many pages.
The answer is "yes" - but just answering with a "yes" - doesn't give the whole picture. [click expand post]
Has the document already been scanned/digitized??
if not - then you simply need to ensure that whoever scans it - scans it into a PDF file (document) - and not a JPG file (image) - - image files by their nature are not multipage entities.
If the item has already been scanned - hopefully it was already scanned into pdf. On the other hand if the item was scanned page by page into distinct JPG files - then you have at least two choices:
1) Re-scan the document a 2nd time and choose the pdf option on the scanner.
2) take all your many jpg images and tie them together into a single pdf file - - this requires a bit of technical knowledge that you may not have. If this is your situation - let me know and I can provide some guidance.
going forward though the key is - to scan an item as a pdf if it is a multi-page document and as jpg if it is a single page/image.
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That will be very helpful. She wrote the history and typed it into a program 20 years ago but not cannot find it on any program she currently has. She will scan it into a pdf document and load it in memories. Thank you
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@Debbie Nowell Amos
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Debbie
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As your 'Question' has been 'Clarified'; and, become more 'technical' ...
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FYI
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As, indicated in the "Knowledge Articles", that I previously proffered ...
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Please be aware that there is a File SIZE Limit of ... 15 MB.
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The formats and the file size limits are below:
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• For documents, .pdf file formats up to 15MB. Other document formats such as doc and .docx files will need to be converted to .pdf before they can be uploaded.
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• For Photos, .jpg, .png, .tif, and .bmp file formats up to 15MB.
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Note: Please be aware that .pdf is the only supported file type that can include multiple pages.
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Brett
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Even with a 15 MB size limit I have been able to upload items with hundreds of pages - using some compression tricks
Here is an example of a 50 page document full of color images and photographs
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/83394698?cid=mem_copy
and here is a 200 page black and white document.
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/111543314?cid=mem_copy
File size should never be a reason to avoid uploading a document. There are various ways around it - including splitting the document into smaller sizes.
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. . . and as a side note - any document in any other format - can be easily converted to pdf format. So for example if you have a document in Word - it can be saved/converted to pdf.
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Your examples are wonderful ! I appreciate you explaining this in more detail .
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Here is a document with an amazing 700+ pages.
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/85150964?cid=mem_copy
and its only about 6.5 MB - not even close to the 15MB limit.
documents like this are only possible because the underlying document is NOT in image format - (like scans) - but rather TEXT format. So, for example if you typed in a 700 page document into WORD - and then saved it in PDF format - you would have something like this document - and the resulting file size - would be quite very small - as compared to if the document was printed on paper and then scanned and the pages were stored as "images" instead of true text.
image files can be 50-1000 times the size of text based files depending on the resolution of the image.
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how many pages was it? if you really wanted to, and if the quality of the paper copy you have is very good - you can use OCR technology to put it back into "editable text" - which is not the same thing as just normally scanned pages - with no OCR - which are just stored as image files (and not editable with a word processor)
using this OCR - you could convert back into a word document and she could actually edit the file if needed.
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