Integrating old photos into your family history research

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Interesting about the sharing on My Heritage.\n\nIt was a great introduction.\n\nIt was a great webinar, Maureen was wonderful educating us about photograph and MyHeritage is very cool to store and share those family mementos.\n\nLeaned a lot.\n\nLearned a lot of NEW stuff today. Well worth the time.\n\nLearned good information on photo identification, file naming conventions and using photos with MyHeritage,\n\nLearned lots of good tips\n\nLearned much. Thank you\n\nLike that photos can be tagged at My Heritage. Wished my family took more photos.\n\nLots of excellent information\n\nLots of good information. Thank you.\n\nlots of great, useful info. I had no idea how much could be done with MyHeritage. Looks like I've got some upgrading to do on my family site.\n\nLots on information - especially helpful since I just received 3 large boxes of family photos - many unidentifiable to me thus far. Also some from Great Lakes Exposition including Johnny Weissmuller and one I believe is of Lenox R Lohr\n\nLove to learn from Maureen Taylor!\n\nLoved it! Tons of wonderful tips on how to identify old photos - I have a coupld of old albums from 1897 and on and i expect I'll be able to figure out who some of those folks are, finally! \n\nLoved it, sorry I had to leave for an appointment.\n\nLoved the info. In two weeks I have to teach a class on adding photos to family search. Will incorporate some of the info. Thanks.\n\nMaureen is very informative and a great speaker.\n\nMaureen Taylor is such an expert! Great webinar!\n\nMaureen Taylor, as always, is wonderful to listen to, learn from, get inspired by, and motivated by . . . . thank you.\n\nMost appreciate your insights Maureen, just the stimulus I need to get going on my photograph collection!\n\nNow going to try and get photos from cousins.\n\nOutstanding webinar and question/answer period. \n\nPresentation excellent. I will see how much I learned when I start working on photographs.\n\nReally excellent!\n\nSo Good! I love these webinars! Very informative and helpful. Thank you!\n\nsome info was helpful, some was beyond my current capacity to use\n\nThank you, Maureen, for all your tips for identifying old photos. Your presentation was very interesting and informative. Now, I just need to find the time to work on our dozens of boxes of old photos and slides!\n\nThank you...lots of good information!\n\nThanks!\n\nThanks! So interesting and helpful!\n\nThanx! Great info!\n\nthe BIGGEST help was naming photos in the way Maureen suggested. Liked the reminder to scan photos and save to tiff & jpg. Looking forward to using the new tools on MyHeritage\n\nThe guru of photos, Maureen Taylor, explains perfectly how to integrate photos into family history!\n\nThe information was very interesting but way beyond what I will be doing. \n\nThis one was awesome!!! I learned so much; I can't wait to finish scanning all the photos in my possession and now I have tips on how to identify them, or at least where to get help on identifying them!\n\nThis was the first webinar that I have registered for. It was surprisingly easy to connect and the reminders were extremely helpful. I will definitely be registering for future events. Many thanks.\n\nToday's webinar was soooo well presented & will be soooo helpful to me. That big box of loose photos is still daunting, but now I have a resource!\n\nToo much info...I'll have to watch this several times...LOL!\n\nUsing clothing and historical information (the WPA using tintype cameras) to help place time of photograph was especially helpful.\n\nVery clear. Learned a lot.\n\nVery enjoyable, has given me lots to think about and inspired me to do more\n\nvery good\n\nVery helpful for those researchers using My Heritage.\n\nvery helpful information\n\nvery informative and helpfu\n\nVery Informative..... Thank you !!!\n\nVery interesting and helpful. :-)\n\nVery interesting program. I have always admired Maureen Taylor for her expertise in identifying photos.\n\nVery interesting webinar with many tips which will come in handy. As a side note, Maureen was broadcasting from Rhode Island where a big branch of my family arrived from England around 1640. Thanks.\n\nVery interesting webinar!\n\nVery interesting. I learned a lot. \n\nwish we could get another hr out of here that was amazing stuff\n\nWonderful presentation. Thank you! :)\n\nWonderful! I am so interested in the photos of ancestors too. Amazing Webinar!!\n\nWould love to have some of MyHeritage's photo capabilities within Legacy.\n\nWOW! I loved all I learned. I have lots of new questions now too. Thank you to the presenters. \n\nYes, I am working on several boxes of photos that my mother, who is 87, has inherited from her mother and grandmother, I love hearing the stories she remembers. However I need to work faster because her memory is fading. These photos add so much to the facts and timeline of our ancestors.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   A first timer, and hope I can learn more to help with photos for my Tree.\n\nAll speaking voices were excellently clear and relevent, thank you.\n\nA lot of great information that is surely going to help me in the future. \n\nA wealth of information in this webinar. I will need to review much of it again to be so that I pick up on points I missed on this first pass. Thankyou.\n\nAbsolutely brilliant. I had no idea of the scope My Heritage has gone to, for family photos. I must get started on this\n\nAbsolutely wonderful\n\nAlways good information\n\nAlways great information from Maureen Taylor. Thanks!\n\nAlways great webinars!\n\nAnother great webinar. Thanks\n\nAwesome presentation!\n\nDid not get in on the first of the discussion, but do get hints about finding photos.\n\nEducational. Worth the time to listen to the Maurine Taylor presentation.\n\nEnjoyed the dual talk.\n\nEnjoyed the helpful tips in identifying the possible year of the photo. Very useful tips on identifying people in the photo whom you didn't really know yourself. \n\nEnjoyed the webinar and learnt some more tips about using MH\n\nexcellent - I hope that I can retain more than 50 percent\n\nExcellent as usual.\n\nExcellent content and presenter. This was my first MyHeritage webinar and will definitely take advantage of future sessions. I will also be taking advantage of the multitude of recorded sessions. I was unable to attend the OSLO gathering in November since I had just been in OSLO in July and was unable to return. I am thrilled there are recordings of the event.\n\nExcellent information on using the dashboard.\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent Tips and help suggestions\n\nExcellent!\n\nexcellent.\n\nExcellent. Maureen is so knowledgeable.. Thank you ...\n\nFound extremely interesting especially around being able to tag group photographs. Maureen was very enthusiastic and knew her subject well. A big thank you.\n\ngood\n\nGood insight to MyHeritage\n\nGood quality video and voice \n\ngood refresher, I have heard the info before, I have the book. Just wanted to see if anything was new. It was not, but It reminded me of other things I need to do with photos, so that's good\n\nGood tips throughout.\n\nGood Webinar!\n\nGreat info from Maureen Taylor! Excellent topic for webinar. Thanks!\n\ngreat information\n\nGreat information and loved the enthusiasm of the presenter!\n\nGreat Information! I am working on identifying some family photos and I am glad to have some new ideas.\n\nGreat information, my husband was a member of the Center of Civil War Photography and is why we have boxes of old Photo's, I hate to see photographs of people abandoned. Now I also know how to integrate them into my genealogy sites. Thank you to all that contributed.\ngreat information. Would love another webinar on actual identifying photos based upon her new book.\n\nGreat information. I need to spend more time checking out My Heritage.\n\nGreat webinar -- very well organized. Had no idea about the door prizes -- neat treat to those who won. :-) \n\nGreat webinar with a must do task for me now to up load my photographs to my MyHeritage family tree.\n\nGreat Webinar!\n\nHelpful information presented in an easy-to-follow manner!\n\nI absolutely loved it. Thank you very much\n\nI am looking forward to checking out Maureen's website for additional information!\n\nI don't have My Heritage at this time, but love the photo part of it.\n\nI don't use my Heritage software but this. was great for people who do use it. \n\nI have family photo's that are yet unidentified. I feel by listening to today's webinar that there is hope in naming some of my photo's.\n\nI have heard Maureen before, but I always learn something new. Thanks!\n\nI have only watched a couple of webinars but I have learned so much. I just want to learn so much more. I have only recently started to really get into my Legacy family tree. \n\nI learned a lot that will help me with a couple of photo problems. Thanks\n\nI learned more about how to distinguish different types of old photos as well as more ways to assist in dating them. Very pleased with sound quality as well.\n\nI loved the short amount of time I was able to be on the webinar call! I'm interested in when this webinar will be available again? I'm also interested in any other upcoming webinars.\n\nI really enjoy listening to and learning from Maureen Taylor -- she is so knowledgeable. She inspires me to spend time trying to identify and label my old photos for the next generation(s)! \n\nI was able to learn quite a lot from this webinar.

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