{"id":22803,"date":"2017-05-31T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:09:22","slug":"genealogy-tip-digitize-and-save-your-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-digitize-and-save-your-memories.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: Digitize and Save Your Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digging through the family \u201ctreasures\u201d in my home, I found this birthday card my daughter made for me years ago.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the front of the card:<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here\u2019s the inside of the card:<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn\u2019t want this card to be lost, and realized that with a few clicks and the power of Adobe PDF, I could preserve it digitally \u2013 forever.<\/p>\n

Armed with the photos I took of the card, I had two options to preserve it.<\/p>\n

I could upload each photo to my family tree and preserve the card as multiple photographs.<\/p>\n

Or, I could use the Adobe PDF \u201cCombine Files into a Single File\u201d option to \u201cprint\u201d and combine these separate photos into one PDF file, making sure that the multiple images of the card were preserved together.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took the second option. This made it easy for me to upload these multiple photos as one file and preserve this homemade birthday card on my online family tree as one file.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how I did it:<\/p>\n