Your family history data, images, and movies might be on the web in a variety of places from genealogy sites to movie hosting platforms. Now imagine that you can create an online collection that gives you all those links in one place.  Then write a family narrative within that site and be able to share as well as collaborate with other family.  In one place you’ll have links to Uncle Jim’s pictures of the last family reunion in Google Photos, Aunt Sue’s family history project, Ancestry.com pages, and young Jimmy’s home movies on YouTube and so much more.  That’s the concept behind Collectionaire, a two-year-old brilliant solution that lets us gather all our web links to family in one place. 

Collectionaire is a simple but smart cloud app for building a curated digital collection of a family’s best photo albums, home movies, audio recordings, journals, etc… anything that can be digitized for future viewing.  Users can add photos, recitals, and art projects to a child’s collection; create a legacy tribute to a lost parent; or assemble the best of a family’s vacations, holidays, and special events together.

It’s not a photo storage site, but a “hub” that’s used with photo and video cloud sites like Apple Photos, Google Photos, Vimeo, and others, and aggregates all your media into one elegant, easy to navigate family site. Each person and each family has a “collection page”, and viewers link to each via their family tree. So now even your parents can find your family’s best memories and view them on any computer, tablet or mobile device.

I’m So glad that my guest Stan Kinsey had this idea and developed it into a new way of thinking about your family history-past and present. Use coupon code PDCOLLECT to receive 50% off either standard or pro subscription for two years. Offer good through December 31, 2020.

 

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About My Guest:

Stanley Kinsey is the founder and CEO of Collectionaire, a cloud-based web app used to create a curated “best memories” family legacy collection that can be intuitively navigated by all family members.

For over 30 years, Stan has enjoyed a media-centric “new technologies” career that included be

I'm thrilled to be offering something new. Photo investigations. These collaborative one-on-one sessions. Look at your family photos then you and I meet to discuss your mystery images. And find out how each clue and hint might contribute to your family history. Find out more by going to maureentaylor.com and clicking on family photo investigations. 

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