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Just like estate planning: preserving and passing on your life story and family history is a vital and important part of your legacy, it also requires the same care and consideration if you wish to achieve your goals

Some good ways to access old memories while doing Legacy work

• Look at photos and videos
• Read old letters and documents
• Look at ephemera that you’ve kept, you kept it for a reason
• Play music from those times

The Family Search website…

…gets over 285 million annual visits
…from over 170 countries and
…has over 20 billion records to search from.

Legacy is big business!

According to its website ancestry.com…

…does over 1 Billion in revenue.
…has 3 million paying subscribers.
…stores 60 billion records online.
…has over 25 million in its DNA network.

It is estimated that 1.94 trillion photos were taken in 2024.

I wonder how many photos were taken in 1974?

If you missed my webinar last week, or just want to review it again, it was just uploaded to The Photo Manager's YouTube channel.
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If you're interested in purchasing the course, use the code - LEGACY10 for a 10% discount good through Friday, Feb 21

Preserving old letters is one of the best ways to learn firsthand accounts from families and friends. I had letters sitting around for years and when I finally picked them up and read them, I was amazed at what I was able to learn about my family history.

Before I invest my time, energy and money and a new legacy service or product, I always like to check the mission statement of that company. Are legacy services and products the only thing this company produces or is it just a part of what they do?

One of the things I’ve discovered in my own legacy work is that it’s not just about exploring and recording one’s own family history, it’s also the understanding that all of us, are witnesses to remarkable periods of history and events. In that way, we all can contribute to our mutual history

A lot of people have expressed frustration and confusion about the new Apple Photos interface update on iPhones. But did you know that you can customize it exactly the way you’d like it to look? Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see a Customize & Reorder link and you can re-arrange all the modules.

Did you know that you can tell what year a print was made by some of the characteristics it has. For instance, scalloped edges of the print, like this one of my family on their Brighton Beach rooftop ( otherwise known as Tar Beach) were very popular in the 1940s.

This Wednesday, the Photo Managers and I will host a webinar to answer questions about the course I created: Preserving Your Legacy - A Practical Guide to Archiving Your Digital and Analog Photos, Videos, and Stories.

Wednesday, February 12, 10am PST, 1pm EST
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First post here on BlueSky. Just wanted to see what it would look like. I love what this platform is all about and hope to use it to tell my stories, and help others tell theirs.