MemKpr

Click on Signup (top center)

2) Register for your New Account (Enter your first name, last name, email address, Family name, your gender, user name and password). Please make sure to save your Username and Password in a safe place. Click on MemKpr Terms and Agreement and then click the green Register bar to complete.

MemKpr will send you a welcome email.  Give it a few minutes and check your incoming email.  If you don't receive your welcome email within 10 minutes please check your Junk email if using Microsoft or your Spam box if using Gmail. When you find it drag it into your Inbox.

You may also receive a Welcome email from CloudMe.com  They are offering you 3 GB's of FREE storage for your pictures and slides.  You are under no obligation to use their services and if you already have DropBox, Google Photo or another cloud service you can setup your family folders with them.

When you open your Welcome email click on the click here to activation link.

3) Return to MemKpr.com and click on Login at the top of the page.  You will now login with your Username and Password.

MemKpr will now open your entry page. Select Add Family Member.

NOTE;  MemKpr was created to help you save the memories collected during your life and the lives that touched you from your grandparents to your grandchildren.  MemKpr was not designed as a genealogy platform.  It is possible to add earlier generations if you want but our focus is on the family you grew up with and those you remember the best.

To help you get started, we need to know what kind of Family Tree you want to build. The tree you saw pictured on the front page of MemKpr is the Zukowski Family Tree.  As the creator of that tree I'm in the middle, with my grandparents at the top and my grandchildren at the bottom.

BUT WAIT - Nuggets?

If at this time you are only interested in using MemKpr to create Nuggets, you just need to setup a two person family tree. It could be with your name or a fake names. This will help start MemKpr.

Now Back to your Family Tree

If you are male, start by adding your information and then add your parents. Your mom will use her maiden name.  If you are married and have NOT been *divorced add your wife's First Name, Middle and Maiden. Don't add your last name to hers.  Click the green Add Member bar to save.

Divorced?

If you have been divorced and remarried and have children with your second (or 3rd ) wife follow these instructions.

On the Dashboard select Your Information.

Click Add Child and add their information. Do the same for each child.

Click green bar to save.

Now in the My Dashboard select each child, one at a time and add the maiden names of their mothers.

You are already names as their father. 

To continue, click on My Dashboard and select Edit on your Father to finish all his birth family information plus his wife (your mom) with her first, middle and maiden name.  

If you have siblings you will need to add them by clicking on Add Child in your fathers input space. When you finish with your father and saved his information, click on My Dashboard and select Edit on your grandfather and add his children, but not your dad, he is already listed.  Finish by selecting Family Tree and see if everyone listed has the same last name.

B) are you a grandmother and want to share the Family Tree you and your husband built together?  Or  

C) are you a brand new bride?  The choice is yours.

You are now ready to start collecting all the great memories of your new life together.  You are the first generation to be prepared to save your pictures and video directly into the clouds and your story into MemKpr.

5) When you have finished your worksheet click on Add Family Member and start with yourself.  First Name along with middle initial plus (.) or your full middle name.

On the next line add your Last Name. Gender. Date of birth date month/day/year (06/15/1939.  Your not dead so this would be for other family members later. Death date.  Status: Living or Deceased. Background color (grey for deceased) Continue: Phone Message phone # (Do not add a number at this time ). Profile Privacy choice.  Mother: with her maiden name (not her married name) and your Father.  Your Wife, if you are married.  Husband, leave blank (unless you are a women building this family tree). 

Choose (your photo) Photo (The photo file you select should be from your Cloud Storage and all Family Tree photo's must be (300 wide x 360 tall) pixels for perfect alignment.  See resize pictures with Jing below.

Next, if you have children you need to add them right after you click the green bar (Add Member) at bottom of the page and then select My Dashboard at the top the screen.

Now you need to select your listing in My Dashboard and click on Edit.  In the second line from the top of this page you will see Edit Family Member, to the right you will be able to click on: Add Child.  Add their First name, Last name, Gender and then Date of Birth.  Click on Add Child.  If you have additional children repeat these steps until you have added all your children.

How to resize your pictures?

We recommend using your computers resizing tool. On my current Windows 10 computer its call: Snip & Sketch Tool.

With a Snipping Tool on your computer you will be able to select any picture you see on your computer screen and resize or zoom into any part of it and capture a single person or face.  If you have not used it before you may need to search on your computer for it.

6) Select: My Dashboard if it is not already open.  You should now see a number of boxes with question marks waiting for pictures.  Each person you select will need to have you finish their personal information, just like you did for yourself.  Each one will also need a 300 wide X 360 high pixel picture.

More than likely you don't have any pictures resized yet from your family collection.  Here are two "male/female" images to practice with.

Once you have installed Jing you can resize these pictures above to 300x360 and then install them for you family members until you have uploaded the real family pictures.

To capture this Jing picture I had to enlarge my screen viewing area to 125%. (On a PC computer hold the Ctrl button down and spin you mouse wheel up or down, to zoom your computer screen larger or smaller)

With Jing you can click in the center of the capture area and move you frame around the picture area.  You can also click on the edges of the frame and pull it in or out to resize your capture area.  Once you practice with it you will really enjoy working with it for picture captures anywhere on the Internet.

7) At the top of your MemKpr work page click on Family Tree.  Click the QR code to open. Only those with your same last name should be in the Family Tree.

10) Click on My Dashboard again and you will see the new husbands and wives you have added.  They will not be added into your family tree.  Only those born with the same last name as your father are in the family tree.

11) In My Dashboard click on your fathers name above the question mark (where his 300x360 picture will be posted) and see if all his family connections are listed (in orange).  Above his picture should be his Wife.  Above her should be his mother on the left and his father on the right.  Below his picture is his birth and death dates.

Below and on the left side of his picture are his Memories.  On the right side are his Siblings.  Below and in the center are his children.  You should see your name listed there.

12) Memories are added into your Bio page by clicking on My Dashboard and then clicking on Edit below the picture of the person you want to add. 

When the Edit Family Member window opens select, Add Your Memories. 

Edit Family Members Legacy Page (opened below) You can select up to 7 pictures (from your saved picture folder, located on your computer or in your Cloud folder) for your revolving slide show.  This could be a selection of pictures from your family members entire life (only 5 pictures are shown below)  Please make sure your slide show pictures are no wider than 600 pixels and 450 pixels tall.

Above, in the center is the Personal Biography window. 

Note: It is most important that you first create your written story on your computer, in a Word document program, before you copy and paste it into the Personal Biography.  You can make corrections and changes much easier.  Also you will always have a back up copy of your written work incase of an accidental delete while working on it.

You can always add still pictures and documents into any part of the written biography once you have pasted it into the Personal Biography window. You can always find pictures on the Internet as a helper to tell your story.  Also, you can use your new Jing program to capture anything you see on your computer screen, including video and audio clips.  By zooming in or out of your computer screen (Ctrl + mouse wheel) you can change the size of your Jing picture.

13) Adding more than a single picture into your slide show window will give you more pictures to tell your story.  When you visit my story take a look at my Slide Show widow and you'll see that I used as many as four single pictures to make one slide.   

The basic tools in the Personal Biography window are explained below:

Anything you type into the Biography can be controlled just like any Word document.

To be on the safe side, we recommend you first create your biography story in your Word document software, save it, and then copy and paste it into the Personal Biography.

14) How to create Story Chapters?

While you are still signed into MemKpr, up at the top of the page, click on Add Family Member.  In the First Name box create your chapter name... if you need additional space continue in the Last Name box. Do Not Use your family last name in this box or it will end up in the Family Tree. That's not where you want it.

You can also share the approximate year(s) when this chapter happened by using the Date of Birth and Date of Death boxes.  

In telling my story I used (9) chapters to share what has happened in my life.  If you have not yet visited My Story yet, please take a few minutes and see what I did so you can get a clear picture of how to complete Bio's for your family.

15) How to add old movies and video into your MemKpr account?

YouTube has provide us one of the best ways to share our old movie memories.  If you visited my story, you'll notice I have 4 videos uploaded.

Once you have had all your old movies transferred into digital and have them safely backed up on Hard Drives it's time to select your best videos and upload them to your YouTube account.   How do I do that?  Please watch the video below.   

Click to open video: How To Properly Upload Videos To YouTube - YouTube

After your video's are uploaded, you are now ready to add them into your Biography stories.

16) How do I connect my YouTube account with my MemKpr account?

Sign into your MemKpr.com account and open My Dashboard.  Click on the family member you want to add the video into and then click on their Memories below their picture. Below the Slide Show window on the left side click on Add Audio/Video

A new widow will open up, saying Audio Source Code with a box.  Pull the right corner of the box down to open the it wider.  You will be dropping the embed code into that box.

Since you have already learned how to upload your videos into YouTube, let's now learn to get them to play inside your Bio.

Step #1 Open your YouTube account and select the video you want to use.                            

Step #2  Click on EMBED

Step #3 Copy the Embed Video source code and paste it into your MemKpr Source box.

Step #4 After you paste the Embed Video code into MemKpr you will need to change the size of the video player.  Please change 560 into 420 and 315 into 236. Now click on Submit and your video will show up under the Slide Show window.

You will also see a DELETE button under the video, if you want to remove the video in the edit mode.

You have now learned all the basic steps to build your own Family Tree.

If you have any questions with any of the above steps, please email help@memkpr.com

MKPR.me is a short code creator.

This is the short code to MemKpr's Index: mkpr.me/fqi click to test.

To create your own short code, open https://mkpr.me and enter your MemKpr password, not your User name.  Then click Submit. Your 3 digit code will show up.

Now go to the website page you want to link back to help tell your story and copy (Control C) the long URL from the address bar and paste ( Control V) it into MKPR and click on save.  In a moment you will see 3 digits show up.  Now just add a forward leaning dash "/" and then your new three letters after mkpr.me/???  You are now ready to copy and add it into your story.  Just like I'm describing to you here. 

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