Building a Story with the Ancestry App

The Photo Detective

This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Jordan Lundskog, a Product Manager at Ancestry.com. The two discuss using the new story feature in the Ancestry.com app. A partnership with Photomyne allows users to add and edit photos within the app. Jordan explains how it all works and how easy it is to create a story.

Related Episodes:

Episode 177: Wild about Wildcards with Amy Johnson Crow

Episode 98: Collect Stories with StoryGlory

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About My Guest:

Jordan Lundskog is a Product Manager at Ancestry focused on finding ways to explore and build tools to help people protect, preserve and enhance memories before they fade away. Jordan has been part of the Ancestry team since 2018. He enjoys finding ways to solve human problems with technology and most recently he has been working on a free set of tools to help anyone upload, enhance, and share photos, stories and other types of media on Ancestry. Prior to Ancestry, Jordan held product management roles at Vivint Solar, PlanSource, and ApplicantPro.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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