Bill's Genealogy Blog

Bill Buchanan is a long-time genealogy enthusiast, living in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada. This blog will describe my experiences as I research my family history and help others.

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I am a retired online school teacher. I love family history. From 2007-2020, I spent much of my time providing part-time support for the world's largest free family history site https://familysearch.org This is very rewarding. I have helped others with the Family Tree and related FamilySearch products.
In 2010-2018 I served in the Edmonton_Alberta_Riverbend_Family_History_Centre..I have a FHC blog at Bill's Family History Center Blog Since 2020 I have been a family history consultant for Edmonton Alberta North Stake. For information on the Latter-day Saints and family history click https://www.comeuntochrist.org/

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Why I missed an appointment

I woke up this morning realizing that I had missed an appointment last night, I think it has been years since I have missed an appointment to visit someone. And it should not have happened this time.

What happened?
I have been planning training on FamilySearch Memories for a small group of people in Edmonton. As part of my preparation, I watched a BYU Family History Library video by James Tanner, He clarified something I had always found fuzzy, the distinction between when FamilySearch considers an image as a "Photo" and when it is a "Document". Basically, "If it has no faces, it is a document." 

Armed with this information I spent the evening carefully looking at thousands of items I had uploaded to FamilySearch Memories, looking for images of houses, grave stones, handcrafted items and other keepsakes, etc, and converting them to "Documents".

This kept me busy until bedtime. 

And I think I will use James Tanner's video to do the training on FamilySearch Memories.


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