Category: FamilyCrossings News & Features

For 22 years Familycrossings has provided a safe, private web platform for families to create websites that let relatives share photos, videos, stories and calendar events.

The product is getting an update to the popular photo-sharing function. Called FaceID family members can click on faces in uploaded photographs, tag each face shown, and the site will also keep the information available to match up with other photos with faces using AI. All IDs are created in the browser with no information sent to third-party sites.

Familycrossings has included 2 games that use FaceID.

Who’s That? Matches faces to names with a scoreboard for competitive family activity.

The second game is named Face Memory Game and is based on the game Concentration. Family members can also keep score in this game.

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It’s true that keeping in touch with relatives can be challenging, especially if they live far away or have busy schedules. However, there are many tools and technologies that can make it easier to stay connected. One option is to use a family-centric website to share updates and stay in touch with each other. Social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, can also be useful for staying connected with relatives, as they make it easy to share photos and updates with a wide network of people. Additionally, communication tools like email, Skype, and FaceTime can be used to have more personal and interactive conversations with relatives, even if you’re not in the same place. By using these tools and technologies, it’s possible to maintain connections with relatives and stay up to date with what’s happening in each other’s lives, even if you’re not able to see each other in person very often.

Yes, keeping in touch with relatives can be tricky, but there are many ways to make it easier. One way is to use a family-centric website to share updates and stay connected with each other. This can be especially useful for families with members who live far apart, as it provides a convenient platform for sharing news and staying in touch. Additionally, social media and communication tools like email, Skype, and FaceTime can also make it easier to stay connected with relatives, even if you’re not in the same place. Regularly scheduling phone calls or video chats can also help to maintain connections with relatives and stay up to date with what’s happening in each other’s lives.

WORDLE has taken America by storm and now your family can play it together.
Wordle is an online 5-letter word game. Each day a new word is released and players have six attempts to guess what the word of the day is. During the guesses, tiles will change color to help players get the word. A grey letter means it isn’t in today’s word, while a yellow letter signals it is in the word but in the wrong position. Then there’s the green letter which means it’s in the word and in the right place.
Players select letters of the alphabet on the virtual keyboard and enter them into the 5 blank tiles. When they’re happy with their 5-letter word guess, they press the submit button. This then checks the word and lets you know if your word or some of the letters are correct. If it’s completely right the full 5 letters turn green.
Familycrossings has modified the game to record a score (10 points for solving the game plus 1 point unused guess) and hold each member’s point total on a family scoreboard. There is only one word per day, all family members play the same word.

NOTE: Wordle can be found under PLAY navigation menu. If the word PLAY is not on your main menu have your site administrator go to Manage>Site Admin> Enable/Disable Features>Check PLAY, check WORDLE> click APPLY. The item will be added to the main menu.

For the hundreds of MyFamily clients who converted to Familycrossings.com your wait is over. We listened to your feedback and have delivered a new Family friendlyfeature.

Located in the “What’s New” area the link named “New to Me” will bring you every photo, every story, every comment that you have not clicked on. The site will start by bringing you the last 30 days of content and then will start removing from this page the items you clicked. There is a “dismiss” function if you wish to delete from “New to Me” all the content by area or by each item.

An update to our navigation will be coming soon.

We have recently uploaded a new feature called “Question of the Week”. The feature is designed to encourage more interaction between your family members. It is a semi-automated processes that will allow you to either select from standard questions (like how was your Fourth of July) or create your own and then pre-schedule the questions to be deliverable by email to your family members.

Each family member can click the link and respond with a suitable answer. The next step is to publish the answers to your family site. The whole process takes only a few minutes to get a year’s worth of questions into the Familycrossings system.

Enjoy!!!

This morning we uploaded a new feature to Familycrosings.com called Member Bytes. It is an alternative to the Home Page and What’s New.

Member Bytes shows ALL the content and comments added by each Family Member and can be sorted by “Most Recent”, “Member’s Name”, or “Content Score”. Content score references the amount of content and comments that each Family Member has added.

Check it out the next time you log in.