Sharing and Saving Family Video: FamilySearch and YouTube.

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The Family History Bug has Bitten!!                       

 

It is Father's Day and the beginning of Summer.   It is the time when we are ambitious with how we are going to get lots of things done.     Well this week, we were trying to organize photos to make memory books and we found some video of Grandpa, who passed last year.   I told Chris that I had heard of a workaround on how to share videos through FamilySearch and he made it work.   YAY!

 

This post is written by Chris Reed.  

 

Adding Family Videos to Family Search

Family Search doesn’t allow adding video by default, but the following workaround will allow 

you to add family videos to Family Search.  

  1. Sign into YouTube with a Gmail account that you use frequently so that it is always 

    active and follow the process to verify your account by going into 

    Settings > Channel > Feature Eligibility > Enable Videos over 15 mins in length.


  1. Upload family video to the Youtube account of the Gmail account that you use frequently

    so that it will not go inactive.  And make sure it is set to show publicly so anyone can see

    it.

  2. A while later after being processed on YouTube's servers if you go into the video there 

    will be some screenshot from the video, right-click on one of them and save the 

    thumbnail somewhere on your computer to add to Family Search.  Or you can also do a 

    screenshot of the video on youtube and save the thumbnail on your computer if you 

    want control of the thumbnails created. 


  1. I would also go into YouTubes settings and disable comments for the videos you post, 

    people don’t post things in the comments that you don’t want seen under the video.  Go 

    to Settings > Community > Defaults > Select “Disable comments” for both Comments on 

    your new videos and Comments on the discussions tab.


  1. Copy the YouTube link for the video


            Link will look like this https://youtu.be/Pn1YY9VErMk  


  1. Go into Family Search click on the memories section of an ancestry that you want to add the 

    YouTube link to.


  1. Create a story under memories, give it a title, add a thumbnail of the YouTube Video if you’d 

    like.  Add a description and the YouTube Link.


  1. Now under memories on that person it you show like this


  1. As long as the Youtube account that posted the video is active, the link will be good to view 

    the video from.


FamilySearch.org:Preserve Video Memories to the Family Tree   

This is a video to explain the post and show how to do the project.  


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