Use memories to preserve your ancestors' photos, stories, documents, and audio recordings.
FamilySearch Memories helps you preserve the photos, stories, documents, and audio file recordings about your ancestors. You can use memories on the FamilySearch website and in the FamilySearch mobile apps.
Steps (website)
- Sign in to FamilySearch and click Memories.
- Click Overview, Gallery, People, Find or Family Feed.
- To learn more about FamilySearch memories, click Overview.
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Gallery allows you to see and work with all the memory items you uploaded to FamilySearch:
- Upload new photos, documents, and audio files.
- Add stories about your ancestors.
- Annotate your memories with titles, descriptions, and events.
- Add tags that connect memories to people in Family Tree.
- Listen to audio files that you uploaded.
- Organize your memories into albums.
- Archive memories
- Bookmark favorite memories
- Delete memories.
- People groups memories for people into albums. You can see memories that you added as well as items other users added.
- To search for people, places, events, or document types, click Find.
- To view the memories uploaded by family members, click Family Feed.
Steps (Memories mobile app)
The FamilySearch Memories app displays memories that you added and allows you to add new items.
- Click the + and upload new memory items.
- View the memories you uploaded.
- Tap a memory. You can add titles, tags, and comments.
- Add audio files about a photo.
- Edit a story.
- Add details such as dates and places.
- Mark a memory item as public or private.
- Add an item to an album.
- Move an item to Archive.
- Delete the memory item.
- Report abuse
- Share the memory
- Tap Albums and organize your memories into albums.
- To search for a memory item, at the bottom, tap Find.
- Open the menu: 3 lines at the bottom of Apple iOS devices; top of Android devices. On larger screens, some options appear in the lower banner.
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See your archived and recently deleted items.
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Steps (Family Tree mobile app)
In the Family Tree mobile app, you can see the memories about your ancestors.
- To see all the memories you have added to FamilySearch for any ancestor, tap the three lines in the lower right corner, then tap Memories Gallery.
- Along the top, tap the different icons to filter the memories by type: photos, stories, documents, or audio files.
- In the upper-right corner, tap the three dots to select memories, view recently deleted memories, or view archived memories.
- In the lower-right corner, tap the + icon to add memories to the Memories Gallery.
- To see memories for a specific ancestor, tap Tree.
- Navigate to an ancestor.
- In the banner below the ancestor’s name, tap Memories.
- Only memories tagged to that ancestor will be shown.
- Along the top, tap the different icons to filter the memories by type: photos, stories, documents, or audio files.
- In the lower-right corner, tap the + icon to add memories to the Memories Gallery.
- To edit a memory item, tap the memory to open it. You may need to tap it again to see the icons in the lower right side.
- Tap an icon to add tags, topics, stories, or audio files to the memory item. Small screens only include icons for adding tags and identifying people in the memory.
- In the upper-right corner, tap the 3 dots for more options:
- Report abuse
- View Details
- Small screen: Record a Memory, Comments, Download (on Android).
- To share a memory, tap the memory to open it. You may need to tap it again to see the icons in the lower right side.
- Apple iOS: In the lower-left corner, tap the share icon (square with arrow).
- Android: Tap the 3 dots and then Share.