Best Blog or Social Media to Document Family Memories

marzo 05, 2022 Publicar un comentario

"What's the best way to share my family unit photos & stories online?"

Certain, my principal focus is on creating books to preserve your stories—but at the cease of the day, information technology's my mission to help you ALL undertake some type of personal preservation project to ensure your legacy is passed on. And there's no denying that nosotros live much of our lives online these days.

While I honey Facebook for keeping me updated as to what'south going on in my local community, and I tin sure as heck become lost on some of my favorite Instagram feeds, I don't recommend relying on ANY social media platform for permanent storage of your family unit annal. Then, what if you want to share your family photos and stories online—for more than just a few fleeting likes?

I invited a retentivity-keeping colleague to share her thoughts on the matter—welcome NYC–based certified professional person photo organizer Marci Brennan on why you should consider creating a family website:

Consider letting the whole family, from kids to grandparents, contribute to making your new family website.

Consider Making a Family unit Website

Staying in bear on with family unit is paramount these days. Social media, for instance, has been instrumental in helping us maintain relationships. But when it comes to tech, not everyone is comfortable with every social media site or app. This is even more important when considering family members of various ages. And social media sites oft alter their privacy policies. At that place'due south likewise an increasing number of targeted, distracting ads on them.

Families are realizing that creating a dedicated family website is the best option. It provides a safe and secure place to share and preserve family unit history while avoiding the pitfalls of social media sites.

Many of these family unit websites are multi-functional. They offer a diverseness of services such as message boards, blogs, calendars, and other options. And they take aesthetically pleasing, user-friendly interfaces.

Here are a few of the benefits and features of a dedicated family unit website:

Admission and sharing for all

Family unit sites level the accessibility field. Age and comfort with tech affair less, as the best sites make navigating their contents easy. All ages can access the site by typing a customized URL / domain name into their browser. Sites are device-agnostic. No special passwords or registration required.

easy connection to your family

Staying in contact with our families allows us to abound closer together. By using a family website, members tin share their photos and videos as well as create events. Information technology can become a family communication and library hub. Weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and graduations tin can be shared, besides every bit other important events. Personal projects, movies, family recipes, and other tips tin can even have their own pages.

Preserving your history

Adding a family tree is a slap-up way to manage, organize, and preserve your family heritage. Photos of people, special places, and memorabilia can inspire memories and spark conversations. Posting digitized versions of old media (such every bit 8mm, Super 8 and VHS tapes) add another layer of interest and history. Older family members tin share and certificate their stories, preserving their memories. The current family as well as future generations volition benefit.

Getting started

There are a few options to choose from when creating your family website. I recommend

SmugMug
Forever
Permanent.org,
Memoryweb.me

…which are all defended to photography and family memories. Take a look at each site and see which one is best for y'all.

The Rewards

Many of us will accumulate a massive corporeality of photos in our lifetimes—tens of thousands, if not more. Mayhap your photos take been professionally scanned, organized and backed upwardly on an external hard bulldoze (or two) already. Or maybe, as the family historian, you have even done this yourself. While that is an essential step and an added layer of security, passing along your photo legacy on a family website to hereafter generations is the ideal solution. This makes inheriting family photos much easier and more enjoyable for anybody. Sharing a curated family library with present and future generations is a timeless and uniquely precious gift.

about the author

Marci Brennan is a TPM certified professional person photo organizer. She lives in Queens, New York, and works with her husband, videographer/lensman Chris George. Together they offer photo and video organizing services throughout New York City and beyond. At Past Nowadays Pix their goal is to help decorated families manage, organize, and preserve their photo and video collections so their valuable media is always at their fingertips and safely backed upwardly.