Flickr & Photostreams: Connecting With Your Past Through Community Photo Sharing

Date:

Friday, Mar 22

Time:

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Room:

255C

Session ID:

G48

Type:

Presentation

Difficulty:

All

Track:

Genealogist

Syllabi:

Flickr_and_Photostreams_-_Darby (DOCX)
Flickr_and_Photostreams_-_Darby (PDF)

Description

Learn to harness the power of community by using Flickr and other photo sharing sites to identify orphan photos, share your collections with others, and make vital genealogical connections. Master skills of metadata tagging to identify people and places and learn who else is using these tools to post photos.

Presenters

Luana Darby

Luana Darby is a professional genealogist and lecturer. She graduated from BYU with a degree in Family History and received her master’s degree in Library Science in May of 2012. She is the owner of Lineages by Luana, a genealogical research company which focuses on US/Canada and Western European research. She has lectured a various genealogical conferences which include NGS. FGS, RootsTech, UGA, BYU and ICAPGen. She is current treasurer and past president of the Utah Genealogical Association and is working on her accreditation in Midwest research. She also owns Scan My Past, a digital scanning company.