Family album idea.

LegacyUser

Angel Lyn Mortensen said: So going through some old photos that I got from my grandma who recently passed. I thought how can we identify who are in these pictures? Then I thought it would be so much easier if you guys do like a family album. Where people can put pictures in this album With the same last name. And it would be called like the “Jones family album” and anyone in that family can upload pictures to get the pictures identified and other families that know the people can tag the person from the family tree, and that pictures can go directly to the identified person in that tree. So for example. Let say I post a picture of my great great grandpa, but I didn’t know it was my great great grandpa. But someone else did and then they can tag that name and it would move into that persons name.

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Tom Huber said: Welcome to the community-powered feedback forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

"Us guys" in this feedback forum are mostly users, just like you. We make up the bulk of the responses in the message threads. While each thread is read by one or more FamilySearch representatives, they often do not have the time to respond.

There are currently over 1.2 Billion profiles in the massive tree. This is only a small part of the Family of mankind. Among all those profiles are many people with the same last name, including those not common.

There are variations of the spelling of those names. For instance, my Clark ancestry uses both Clark and Clarke. My Newman ancestry has many variations on the spelling, although my particular ancestry uses only one of the spellings. Wyckoff is another story, with many of those Wyckoffs living in America and descended from Pieter Claesen using some variation for the name itself.

While memories do have "albums", those can also be used but unfortunately, those are not shared.

Currently, there is no way to put the photographs in any particular order and sub albums do not (yet) exist. Hopefully, they will at some time in the future along with the ability to move the images around in the album.

Google Search has the ability to search on a scanned photograph. It is entirely possible that you may find that by posting a photograph of a person, that somewhere out there, someone has posted that same photograph on the internet and that the search engine has captured it.

Ancestry has the ability to find photographs through its hinting routines and will provide them as hints for the person in the tree you create on their site. It requires membership to build a tree, but that is a nice feature.

Also, there may be sites already set up (I don't know of any) that give its users the ability to do just what you are asking for.

LegacyUser

gasmodels said: You can place all of the photographs in an album and then share the URL of that album with others and they can see all the photos in the album. Identification by tagging will be visible to all who have familysearch accounts as long as the tagging is to deceased persons in Family Tree. This feature already exists in the system and is a good way for a group (family etc or whoever you share the URL with) to look at a collection of photographs and identify the individuals in the the photos. And your desire to tag people with correct identification could be used as long as all users had FamilySearch accounts and were logged in while looking at the album. If you share the URL non users could also see the photos and existing tags but would not be able to add additional tags,.

I believe the current album features would allow you all of the suggestions made. I suggest that you create an album with a few photographs and share it with some other family members so you can see what would work and how it could meet your needs.