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Ponga was a guest on the remarkable All Home Care Matters (allhomecarematters.com) podcast reshared on YouTube.

The pandemic has given us all time to reflect on the power of everyday objects to connect us with our own history. This course will show how to use Ponga to explore your history in artifacts using Ponga pictures so that stories are passed down with considerations for safe, long-term storage and legacy that can provide provenance and connection for future generations.

The first in our Ponga series of conversations about Storytellers and the Photo for SaveYourPhotos.org Month. I'm Barbara, one of the co-founders at Ponga, and in this episode, I'm speaking with Betty Marton of In Your Own Words Publishing (www.iyowpublishing.com/) about some of the core principles of storytelling and how they apply to stories told in pictures.

Lisa Lisson of Are you My Cousin? Tami Mize of Conferencekeeper.org in conversation with Cameron Crowe of Ponga. Watch to learn about fueling an interest in family history and inspiring a new generation of storytellers.

When we research genealogy, we are filling out our family trees with facts like births, marriages, and locations. This important work is even more exciting when you have old photographs of ancestors to explore at the same time. At Ponga, we started with the latest technologies to organize photographs by the faces of the people in each photo. We then created a way to add stories and memories.Powerful zoom features let you get into details, add comments with a few words, or a story in your own voice, drop in a snapshot, or paste a link to embed a home movie or oral history interview. Rich with stories and memories, your pictures become platters that can be privately shared, collecting anecdotes and revealing details. The connective tissue of these stories engages generations young and old with the family they share.

We're thrilled to welcome Kathy Stone of CalgaryPhotoSolutions.ca to our SaveYourPhotos.org Month interview series "Storytellers & the Photo."You can also watch the full 30-min video on our YouTube channel.

This is the second in our #saveyourphotos series "Storytellers & the Photo," a conversation series with storytellers who've thought very deeply about the role of memory, objects, and photos. In this episode, we're talking with Martie McNabb of ShowandTales.com about her remarkable story share events. This preview gives you a taste of the inspiring joy and enthusiasm of our conversation. In commemoration of September 11, Martie's Show & Tales will be hosted a virtual salon in coordination with https://LetsReimagine.com to touch on remembrances of that fateful day.

Barbara Tien, co-founder at Ponga.com, demonstrates how Ponga helps you organize your pictures quickly and easily so that you can use them to privately share stories with family and friends.The TMCC Library offers an Open Genealogy Lab each Friday, it's free, online and open to the public. TMCC Librarian Suzanne Malek welcomes in a new guest speaker as we explore a different genealogy topic each week

Ponga members, their guests, and those new to Ponga sat down at the RootsTech event in March 2022 to share ideas, stories, product feedback and generally build on the Ponga community. This event was held over Zoom, bring your own lemonade and watch. Join us for the PorchSwing at the next RootsTech event at Ponga.com/Rootstech.

We're thrilled to welcome Victoria MacGregor of VictoriasPress.com to our SaveYourPhotos.org Month interview series "Storytellers & the Photo.”