How to Organize your Family History and Best Memories with Collectionaire

Have you accumulated hundreds or even thousands of photos, home movies and keepsake documents of your family over the years? Have you wondered what steps you need to take to organize them, make sure they’re not lost, and make them more accessible to you and your family? While items like furniture, jewelry, clothing, etc. can be bought again in case they’re lost, memories in the form of photos and videos are something that you can’t buy from anywhere if lost or misplaced.

Photos and videos capture the precious moments of your family’s life and browsing them is one of the better ways to spend time reliving your memories. But over a period of time, these photos start to accumulate and become a clustered mess which many find difficult to organize. Keeping that in mind, few, if any, products have been launched to help you organize, secure and share your family history as well as the new cloud-based app, Collectionaire.

From building a family tree as a gateway to your memories, to curating your “best memories” and archiving your family history, Collectionaire leverages the power of cloud sharing to showcase the best of your family’s time together. Photo and video cloud sites are great for storing and viewing your content, but they are simply not designed to create an organized family archive. Plus, you’ll likely need use several sites to store different types of content. Collectionaire was thus designed to work as a partner app to almost all photo and video cloud sites by being a “hub” that allows you to build collections for each person and each family in your tree, then link and index the best memories to each person or family.

In this blog post, we will describe some simple steps to create your family tree that will help you organize your family history in a secure and efficient way. But before diving into the depths of how Collectionaire works, have a look at some amazing benefits of organizing your family history…

Benefits of organizing family history online

• The Cloud is the Solution:  Until recently, a family archive, if it even existed, was most likely built in a personal computer with a complex nested-folder organization that was difficult to view, let alone share. The Cloud has changed all that, allowing easy organizing, viewing and sharing from any connected device. 
• Easy to Use: Once you’ve added just a few people to your family tree, it’s easy to link memories to any person or to the entire family. 
• Efficient research: Organizing your family history will help you efficiently research your ancestor lines and find them in a pinch while saving your precious time, money and effort in the process. 
• Progress report: Organizing your memories from beginning to present will give you an overview of how you’ve progressed since first picking up a camera. You will not only notice the difference in the content of what you’re photographing but also its quality as well. 
• Easier access: Organizing memories online will provide easier and efficient access to your friends and family. They no longer need to wait for you to print photos and send them through the mail. 
• Benefits to children: Research shows that children who have been told about their ancestors are more resilient to real-life challenges. Organizing your family history will depict a clearer picture of your children about what their family background is and where they come from.

How Collectionaire organizes family history?

Here are the necessary steps you need to follow to organize your family history with Collectionaire:

Open the Collectionaire website and go to the Sign Up page and create your free account.

After creating your free account, build a portion of your family tree. Add your family members for which you want to create collections and memories in your tree.

Create albums in one or more third-party cloud websites. Add your photos and videos into albums and create shareable links.

Now link these albums to individuals or families in Collectionaire. Clicking on any person or couple in your tree will take you to their media collection page where you can add their memories in the form of photos and videos.

For detailed information, visit www.collectionaire.com and check out the extensive Help and Support area, or email at support@collectionaire.