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52 Ancestors in Pictures

If you're joining in on the #52Ancestors campaign to focus on an individual ancestor each week of the year, then we've got a great way to leverage that genealogy work in your collection of family photos.

What makes Ponga so Different?

Ponga is all about bringing families together using pictures

Member Posts

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Tips + Tricks

Use an Album Like a Distribution List for Pictures

Use an Album Like a Distribution List for Pictures

Instead of bothering with individually inviting family to contribute to pictures, create an album and add them all as contributors!

Wedding Album Shortcut

Wedding Album Shortcut

Depending on whether you were there or how old the photos are, it can be hard to know what was going on or even name the characters. Without characters and stories, family photos are just stock photos.If you know anything about Ponga, you probably know we're very good at putting names to faces and we do it so you can place the characters get to the stories. Ponga uses fancy tech to do this but really, it's not unlike what a really skilled person does if they have perfect recall and never forget a face.

Videos

Learn How to Use Ponga In Family History and Genealogy

Ponga runs in your browser and gives you a way to organize your photos so that you can use them to privately connect family and friends as you collect research, crowdsource stories, and curate your family legacy.

Ponga Quick Tips | NickNames

How to use nicknames in Ponga to make it super fast and easy to put names to faces. Ponga uses face detection and collection automatically organize your pictures for you by person. When automation can’t be sure, use nicknames to make it quick and easy put a name to the right person. Once organized, Ponga pictures tell stories louder than words, enriched with own voice, documents, video, and more. For more tips, see https://ponga.com/videotips. And to learn more about Ponga, see https://ponga.com.

Ponga Tip | Best practices for organizing pictures quickly and easily

Highlights of some of the best practices for using Ponga to magically organize your pictures for you by the people photographed. Put names to faces in a gallery and Ponga applies labels in every picture, sorting them all into neat albums.

Ponga Tip | Making Corrections to Faces & Names, plus Best Practices

Ponga’s face detection and collection features stand out for not only accuracy but also simplicity. This quick tip shows you how to update names everywhere in a few keystrokes.

Ponga Tip | Organize Your Photos by Person

How to use Ponga to magically organize your pictures for you by person. Put a name to a face once, and Ponga takes care of the rest applying labels to each person in every picture and sorting pictures into neat albums. Now you can see who’s who in each picture and use pictures to bring everyone together with stories. For more tips, see https://ponga.com/videotips. And to learn more about Ponga, see https://ponga.com.

Help Articles

Adding a Face Label to Any Selection in a Ponga picture

Whether to add a name to a person whose back is to the camera, or to a name on a sign, you can add face labels to any selection in a picture

Automatically adding names as new pictures are added to Ponga

Once you've named a person, Ponga's Gallery functions inspect every new picture added to see if that person face appears in new pictures so that people are auto-named on upload.

Best Practices for Adding Names

You know who someone is, but putting a name to a face can be complicated by the connections of family, friends, and associates

Can I add names later if I ignored them in the Gallery?

Yep, sometimes the gallery doesn't catch faces that you immediately recognize. No worries. There's a simple workaround.

Can I give two people the same name in the Gallery?

An uncle and a grandfather with the same name is hard enough. You don't want to compound the problem with album names.

Can Ponga associate just two images as the same person?

Yes. There are several variables that will affect how well the technology is able to accurately associate two images as the same person.

Can Ponga detect faces wearing glasses?

Of course! Faces wearing glasses—even sun glasses—can be detected with a high degree of confidence

Can Ponga really identify people as they age?

Ponga doesn't know your family as you do. When you put names to faces, you're making introductions, and we tend to remember faces.

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