Use memories to preserve your ancestors' photos, stories, documents, and audio recordings.
FamilySearch Memory Viewer Table of Contents
- Introduction to Memories
- Uploading Memories
- Viewing and Accessing Memories
- Privacy and Permissions
- Editing and Managing Memories
- Tagging and Connecting Memories
- Deleting and Correcting Memories
- Portrait Photos in Family Tree
- Sharing Memories
- Special Cases and Limits
FamilySearch Memories helps you preserve the photos, stories, documents, and audio file recordings about your ancestors. You can use memories on both the FamilySearch website and the FamilySearch mobile apps.
1. Introduction to Memories
Adding Memories
How do I use FamilySearch memories to preserve my ancestors' life stories?
What are the features of the image viewer in memories?
2. Uploading Memories
How do I upload memories to FamilySearch
How do I upload audio files?
My audio file didn't upload
Why isn't my photo or document uploaded yet?
3. Viewing and Accessing Memories
How do I view my ancestors' memories (photos, stories, documents and audio files)?
Who can view the items uploaded in Memories for living people?
Do private memories appear in the change history in Family Tree?
How do I search the photos, stories, documents and audio files in Memories?
Advanced search options for Memories
How do I download the memories (photos, stories, documents and audio files) about my ancestors?
How do I view my relationship to a person in Memories?
4. Privacy and Permissions
What are private memories?
How do I make a memory private?
Why does it say that my photo is restricted?
What rules apply to uploading memories to FamilySearch.org?
How do I report abuse, spam, inappropriate memories, and other content?
5. Editing and Managing Memories
How do I add a story to Memories?
How do I edit a story in Memories?
How do I add an image to the story I created?
How do I edit memory descriptions?
How do I add or edit the title of a photo, story, document, or audio file?
How do I rotate a photo or document in Memories?
How do I edit or delete person tags in Memories?
How do I tag people in stories and audio files?
How do I add or remove topic tags in Memories?
In Memories, how do I create person tags for people with the same name?
How do I create an album in Memories?
How do I add memories to an album?
How do I change the name of an album?
How do I arrange and filter the memories in my gallery?
How do I change a photo to a document or a document to a photo in Memories?
What are the features of the image viewer in memories?
6. Tagging and Connecting Memories
How do I tag memories of my ancestor or relatives in Family Tree?
How do I correct memories and sources that are tagged to the wrong person in Family Tree?
7. Deleting and Correcting Memories
Can I remove a photo, story, document, or audio file from Memories?
How do I request removal of a memory or person tag from a person?
Can I delete my comments on photos, stories, documents, and audio files in Memories?
What happens to memories after the contributor dies?
8. Portrait Photos in Family Tree
How do I add or change a portrait photo in Family Tree?
How do I edit a portrait photo in Family Tree?
How do I remove a portrait photo in Family Tree?
How do I rotate a portrait in Family Tree?
What happens to portrait photos in Family Tree after a merge?
Why is a deleted photo showing as a portrait in Family Tree?
9. Sharing Memories
How do I share memories that I find with family and friends?
Can I leave comments about the photos, stories, documents, and audio files in memories?
10. Special Cases and Limits
How many memories (photos, stories, documents, and audio files) can I upload?
My gallery in Memories is too full
Can I add memories about my living relative to Family Tree?