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Welcome to Family Scrolls

Family Scrolls allows you to create multi-media-intensive family histories with custom access and social engagement for family and friends. One subscription is all you need to house your history and invite unlimited family and friend members to explore and contribute whenever they wish. Create exciting engagement with streaming video, audio, downloadables, discussion forums, special interest groups, polls, event calendar, photo galleries, private messaging, and even eCommerce.

You'll also learn how to make your own family histories more cherished through articles and videos on everything from making leather-bound journals to audio and video best practices. Start your own family history profile and try all the features for 30 days FREE. If you love it, simply continue month to month as long as you like.

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iOS Audio Recording App: Just Press Record

When people ask what is the best way to record events, interviews, and every day conversation, I tell them to start with the device they already most likely have with them all the time: their phone. Whether you're an iOS or an Android phone user, you have the necessary tools at your disposal, now it's just a matter of what software will help you get the recordings and organize them to suit YOUR way of working. Just Press Record on iOS is my favorite software for recording every day...

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StoryCorps.org

Story Corps was started by Dave Isray in 2003 with the opening of its first story booth in Grand Central Station in New York. The video on their website tells of Dave's fascination with the stories of his older relatives and how he recorded them one day after a family dinner. To this day, Dave searches his mother's home for the lost tape because he's drawn to a need to hear those voices again. Dave's story and passion for the stories of regular people is similar to mine and I was fascinated...

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Reducing Photo File Size

We recommend optimizing all the photos you upload to your Family Scrolls profile in order to get the most out of your account. The optimum resolution for view photos online is much lower than what you might need for printing so, very often, the resolution of photos taken with your digital camera or photos scanned from a shoebox can take up more space than required to get satisfactory results. Professional web editor will most likely use a program like Adobe's Photoshop to optimize photos...