http://blog.myfamily.com Bringing families closer since 1998 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:54:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blog! Of course family groups are the best way to keep your family connected. But we’ve heard from so many myfamily.com users that they are looking for an easier way to keep friends and family not in a family group updated on life’s happenings as well. And many of you want ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=195 Arrange An Album Organizing your family's photos just became a whole lot easier. Use the new drag-and-drop interface to manually arrange photos within your albums or automatically arrange them based on Title, the date they were uploaded to the group or the date they were taken. You can even put them ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=192 Since the 2.5 version of myfamily.com now includes many of the features you have come to love, we will be removing the 2.0 version sometime in the first week of October. If you have been using the 2.5 version exclusively, this change won't affect you. If you've been using the ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=190 Family Trees We've teamed up with Ancestry.com to bring their premier Family Tree tools to you and your family groups on myfamily.com. Ancestry.com Family Trees allow you to organize, preserve and share your family history, as well as search historical records to discover and learn more about your ancestors. Import Family Trees: ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=187 Non-Member Sharing You can now share all the photos, videos and albums on your family groups with anyone online. Just go to the item that you want to share and click the 'Share this...' link. Here are all the different ways you can share: Email: Type in the email address of the ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=177 We wanted to let you know about a major update added to myfamily.com today. It not only makes the service much, much faster than ever before, but also includes a completely redesigned interface that has been simplified and is easier to use. Many new features have also been added. You ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=175 The Calendar feature allows you and your family to plan group events and remind each other about birthdays, holidays and other special occasions. Adding Events Events can be added directly from the group homepage by clicking on the 'Create Event' tab at the top of the activity feed. Each event can be ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=173 Files The Files feature allows you to store your computer files on your group and share them with your family members. This is especially useful when dealing with larger files that cannot be sent via email. To access the files section, simply click on your group's 'Files' tab. You will be ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=171 Group Picture The Group Picture feature allows administrators to add an extra personal touch to their group. Once they upload a picture in the Group Settings area, that picture will appear next to the group on the Family Group module of the Profile Page, as well as the sign-up page that ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=169 Inbox The Inbox feature allows you to send private messages to your family members (or anyone else who uses myfamily.com) outside of the group environment. This is useful when you want to communicate with an individual or a small group of people without creating a new discussion that all group members ... http://blog.myfamily.com/?p=167