In this special bonus virtual event, Ancestry's Corporate Genealogist Crista Cowan discusses the urgent need to professionally digitize family memories. Prompted by a series of personal events—including her aging mother's fading memory, a near-miss basement flood near a wardrobe of family artifacts, and a failed hard drive that erased years of journal entries—Crista emphasizes the fragility of physical and digital records. The key objective is to educate viewers on how to use Ancestry's Memories Gallery to preserve these treasures and to introduce the new AncestryPreserve Kit as a simple solution for digitizing aging media.
The session begins with a tutorial on navigating the Ancestry Gallery, highlighting the importance of using the "Save to Tree" feature to maintain the original provenance or source of shared photos. Crista then transitions to a live, hands-on demonstration—a boxing video—where she packs her own family artifacts, including 1980s audio cassettes from her Uncle Carl, unreadable 1950s family video DVDs, and physical photo slides, into an AncestryPreserve box. The event concludes with actionable advice: do not wait to organize everything perfectly before digitizing; just take the first step to safeguard family history so you can easily tag and share these memories once they are automatically uploaded to your account.
Chapters:
- The Urgency of Preservation
- Navigating the Ancestry Gallery
- Maintaining Photo Provenance
- Unveiling the AncestryPreserve Kit
- Live Boxing Demonstration
Order your AncestryPreserve Kit today to start digitizing your fragile family memories, photos, and home movies, and automatically upload them to your Ancestry gallery.