sashafaith
23 January 2006, 05:57 PM
http://www.memoryminer.com/
This was one of several Best in Show winners at the recent MacWorld Expo. I immediately tried it out and I am thrilled with the potential, despite the fact that several issues are still needing to be worked out - it is currently in beta. I was able to drag the photos I wanted right from iPhoto, the dates were already available because I had input them in iPhoto, most of my close living relatives were already in my address book, (with their birth dates, because I had already put them in, and address automatically puts their birthdays in my calendar for me, so sweet). I didn't like that the program added my dead relatives to my address book, and now their birthdays are all in my calendar as well, but that was pretty minor. The program added me to the people section, and all of my husband's family because we share the same last name. I went through the pictures and marked rectangles around each person in each of the pictures. Then I started bringing in more pictures & people in batches. For each of the people the program put in, it also looked up their addresses (as they were in my address book), and the program searched for the latitude and longitude and plotted it on the globe! I actually pulled census records out of my files to input addresses from my ancestors, and barring the situations where the landscape has completely changed, this program was able to pinpoint them on a map! Next I wrote a few notes for some of the pictures, then went through my genealogy files and attached a few documents relating to the people.
This program is supposed to be able to export an XML file which can be uploaded to the web. Then other people can share and search via person, place or date, and we can collaboratively document history. My only disappointment (aside from some minor technical glitches - half of which I'm sure are my own lack of experience with the program) is that I am not yet able to do the web export that is demonstrated on the MemoryMiner website. My slideshow was a little clunky, but this software is a masterpiece in progress, and I am sure that soon it will be amazing genealogists, scrappers, and obsessive photo & media documentarians the world over. I would LOVE it if this program could import a Gedcom file, maybe even use Gedcom for part of its database format. Just wondering if anyone else tried it out, and what you thought.
This was one of several Best in Show winners at the recent MacWorld Expo. I immediately tried it out and I am thrilled with the potential, despite the fact that several issues are still needing to be worked out - it is currently in beta. I was able to drag the photos I wanted right from iPhoto, the dates were already available because I had input them in iPhoto, most of my close living relatives were already in my address book, (with their birth dates, because I had already put them in, and address automatically puts their birthdays in my calendar for me, so sweet). I didn't like that the program added my dead relatives to my address book, and now their birthdays are all in my calendar as well, but that was pretty minor. The program added me to the people section, and all of my husband's family because we share the same last name. I went through the pictures and marked rectangles around each person in each of the pictures. Then I started bringing in more pictures & people in batches. For each of the people the program put in, it also looked up their addresses (as they were in my address book), and the program searched for the latitude and longitude and plotted it on the globe! I actually pulled census records out of my files to input addresses from my ancestors, and barring the situations where the landscape has completely changed, this program was able to pinpoint them on a map! Next I wrote a few notes for some of the pictures, then went through my genealogy files and attached a few documents relating to the people.
This program is supposed to be able to export an XML file which can be uploaded to the web. Then other people can share and search via person, place or date, and we can collaboratively document history. My only disappointment (aside from some minor technical glitches - half of which I'm sure are my own lack of experience with the program) is that I am not yet able to do the web export that is demonstrated on the MemoryMiner website. My slideshow was a little clunky, but this software is a masterpiece in progress, and I am sure that soon it will be amazing genealogists, scrappers, and obsessive photo & media documentarians the world over. I would LOVE it if this program could import a Gedcom file, maybe even use Gedcom for part of its database format. Just wondering if anyone else tried it out, and what you thought.