Ancestry’s New Dedicated Media Hub, Memories!

Ancestry's New Dedicated Media Hub, Memories!

Out with the Old and in with the New

Help future generations remember or discover people in your family tree through photos and stories with Ancestry’s new one-stop media hub to view all your media in your tree! As mentioned last week in New at Ancestry: The Explore Feature in Storymaker Studio!, Ancestry came out with a new BETA feature, Explore, in their Storymaker Studio. Well, it seems to have been short lived, as after only a few days, they revamped their whole Storymaker Studio and have now changed the name to Memories, along with adding some some new features.

​Memories Media Hub Categories

• Create
• Albums
• Preserve
• Gallery

Ancestry's Memories Media Hub Categories and How to Get To Memories Media Hub- Example 1

What Can You Do in Memories?

• Create
• Organize
• Preserve
• Scan or upload
• Search
  
• Explore

Create Media

Create stories, create slideshows, upload audio recordings, create albums, make photoline collages, create tree collages, and enhance your photos by colorizing, sharpening, filtering, or adding stickers from photos in your family tree.

Ancestry's Memories Media Hub Category, Create

​Organize Your Media

Arrange all your media into albums and add details to your media, such as tags, dates, locations, and descriptions.

Ancestry's Memories Media Hub Category, Albums

As you can see, I haven't created any albums yet.

Preserve Family Memories

Help future generations remember or discover people in your tree through photos and stories by preserving your family history. Scan or upload media, then edit your family photos by adjusting, colorizing, sharpening, cropping, rotating, or filtering them. From there, you add tags, dates, locations, and descriptions to your photos.

Ancestry's Memories Media Hub Category, Preserve

​Scan or Upload Memories

Scan or upload old photos and add details to them. 

Search

Search for your photos, stories, audio, and videos quickly in your media Gallery by filtering what you are looking for.

Explore

Explore historical photos through the eyes of your ancestors.
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Many of these features go hand in hand; therefore, you can do some of the same tasks under each category. 😉

How to get to Memories

1. Memories tab in top bar across any page, as in first example
2. Photo image icon on left hand side toolbox from Pedigree view or Family view, while in your family tree
3. Photo image icon with their newer right click feature from Pedigree view or Family view, while in your family tree

How to Get To Ancestry's Memories Media Hub- Example 2

*Note: They don’t seem to have all the kinks worked out yet, but I’m sure it’s another work in progress. 
Currently there is no smooth way to get back to the main page from each feature or category. The feature that I mentioned in my last post, Explore, is advertised in the pop up for the new Memories media page, but I haven’t seen it yet. Some of these features/tools just take you to your ancestor’s profile page gallery allowing you to be able to do the same things you have already been able to do. Some of the go back button or arrows take you back to places that have nothing to do with what you were doing or where you were. 😉

More Ancestry and Genealogy Resources

Learn about more Ancestry updates, tips, tools, and features and other family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.