If you contribute many photos, stories, documents, and audio files to FamilySearch, your gallery can become so full that is difficult to manage. If you have finished tagging the memories and titles, descriptions, event dates and places, and other information, you can move the image to your archive to declutter your gallery.
When you archive memories, they remain online for others to see. If you have tagged them to a person in Family Tree, the tag remains, and other users can still see the memories. The only thing that changes is that you no longer see the memory in your gallery.
When you view your archive, you can see the memory, edit it, add it to albums, share it, and do all of the other things you could do from within your gallery. You can also move it back to your gallery.
Steps (website)
- While signed in on FamilySearch, click Memories.
- Click the memory that you want to add to archive.
- Click Actions, and then click Move to My Archive.
- Select an existing album, or enter the name for a new one.
Steps (mobile app)
- From in the Memories mobile app, open
- Apple iOS: In the top right corner, tap Select.
- Android: In the top right corner, tap the 3 dots followed by Select Memories.
- Tap the memory you want to archive. You can choose more than one.
- In the top right corner of the screen, tap the 3 dots.
- Tap Move to Archive.
Steps (Family Tree Lite)
You cannot use memories on Family Tree Lite. Please use the Family Tree Memories app or the full version of the FamilySearch website.
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