Susan Farrell Bankhead, Certified Genealogist (sm)
Tech Tuesday – Free Heritage Collector Suite Giveaway in Random Drawing!
(This campaign is closed.)
Good news! After this post went to press, LifeStory Productions, Inc., informed me that they will match my giveaway, so the person that wins this drawing will get the upgrade FREE! Thank you LifeStory! 
Here’s the original post:
Are you like me? I have family photos in shoeboxes, orange boxes, banker boxes, binders, and on my computer. I have copies of research documents in binders, a file cabinet, banker boxes, and on my computer. It’s really not my fault. I’m a product of changing times as we moved from a world with everything in print to everything digitized.
If you are like me, you’ve probably searched for a way to organize your family history images whether they be family photos or scanned documents in a manner that will be easily retrievable.
I have found a solution to this problem! It’s called the Heritage Collector Suite by LifeStory Productions, Inc. and I’m giving away in a random drawing a free copy of the software (version with copyright 2008) with the Digital Family History Guidebook.
Note: There is a newer version of this software (Version 6.2). If you are the winner of this drawing you may use this software as is or upload the upgrade new version (Version 6.2) for $29.99.
Heritage Collector Professional Suite is a software program that makes organizing your photos and digital images a snap. With this program you may:
- Group different file types into collections – With this feature you may create a digital file cabinet for all your research, whether it is in a pdf, doc, or jpg file.
- Scan photos
- Make slide shows
- Create hard bound books
- Create scrapbooks
- Create map spots on an image
- Organize media for quick retrieval
- Annotate photos
- Search by GPS location
- Frame Photos
On their website, LifeStory Productions, Inc., describes this product:
“We’ve learned a lot about family history during the past fifteen years. We put it all into Heritage Collector. The software contains everything you need to to manage, organize, share and preserve family history.
“Tag graves and other family history locations with GPS coordinates. The GPS Maps module can automatically turn your coordinates into cemetery maps to be printed or easily converted into a PDF and e-mailed to family.
LifeStory can now help you organize and format a family history by providing a program called, “Creating a Family History.” The program contains printed and video tutorials to help you learn how to scan and format a family history. This program will show you how publish your history on a CD/DVD allowing you to include it in your printed history.”
With this software, I have been able to scan all my photos having to do with my Smith Family and have combined them into one collection labeled “Smith.” I have also been able to scan and merge my Smith research documents into this collection. Now, when I need to access a doc or photo, this software makes it easy to find the one I need.
Would you like to see how it works? Take a tour of their software.
You may order the Heritage Collector Professional Suite at their website.
If you want to enter this drawing, leave a comment below this post by the end of the day 11:59 PM Mountain Time on Saturday, October 1, 2011. Drawing will be conducted at Random.org on Monday, October 3. Odds of winning are variable according to the number of people who leave a comment!
Disclaimer: LifeStory Productions, Inc., has given me this software to giveaway in this drawing. They have not paid me to write this post.
Excellent review. Thank you foryour insight.
Sounds like something that would be beneficial to me in my research storage area, Hope I am the Winner, thanks for this give a way
Thank you for the chance to win this product. I’d be interested in it for a while. Your suggestions for how to use it make it even more appealing.
anything that helps me with photo organization is helpful.
This is a great software package. Earlier this year I attended a webinar where The Heritage Collector was demonstrated and I’ve had my eye on it ever since.
Great information. Whether I win this or not, I’ll definitely look into owning it.
I’d love the chance to try this new (to me) software. Thanks.
This would help me organize my genealogy work so much!! I always say I need a secretary. lol Crossing my fingers I win! : ) I am a disabled Veteran and live on a strict income. I can’t afford to buy genealogy software, believe it or not. This would be excellent to have! Thanks!
OOOH, This looks great! I could get all of those pictures out of the old albums my mom and grandma have.
The software looks extremely useful. I especially like the ability to keep photos and files together. Additionally, I have wanted to add audio files to my family tree for a long time–for instance, yodeling for my Swiss lines. Thanks for sharing the software.
I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to organize the digital and non-digital photos. This looks like it would be a step in the right direction. Thanks for posting and the drawing!!
I can use all of the help I can get! Enjoyed meeting you at FGS in September.
Thanks for the information Susan! Very helpful.
Thank you for such a good reccomendation. Sounds intriguing to me.
Great stuff as usual.
Thanks Susan
I’ve looked into this bit of software, but it’s hard to determine whether it will suit my needs. The downside is that it doesn’t have a trial version of sorts, although I did hear that there will be a free, basic version available in the near future. Or is that just a rumor?
This sounds like something we could really use.
Thank you, for offering a contest on it.
I have papers everywhere stored in expanding files. This would be a great asset to help me get a handle on things. Please enter me in your drwaing. Thank you for a great webpage on genealogy!
Just what I need! Besides TIME!!!!
Thanks Susan!
I would love to have this software. It would be a huge help in my research. I love reading your blog. It is a great help.
Thanks.
This would be wonderful to have. I really have alot of family photos and documentation which needs a home! Thanks for the chance!
I would love to win and try new products. I am fairly new at genealogy, so I know it would be helpful.
This software sounds like just what I need! I have bins, boxes and piles that I would love to organize! Thanks for the chance to win and for informing everyone about this software
Thank you for the opportunity to get help in organizing my genealogy files and to stay interested in doing more research.
Always looking for new and useful products to use in family history. Thanks for the information and your blog.
Thanks for this great opportunity to win a fabulous prize. I could use anything that would help me organize my genealogy information. It is beginning to overrun my office! HELP!
Please exclude me from the drawing, Just wanted to make sure that everyone knew that we are having a Webinar tonight at 7:00 MST on our Storybook Program, Come check it out, our webinars don’t cost anything. The link is: http://heritagecollector.com/webinars.htm
Susan, you are awesome. It sounds like this could help me not be so overwhelmed. Thank-you for the infirmation.
I love this program and would love to have an update.
I have shoe boxes of pictures that need homes… This would be sooooo terrific!! Thank you for the chance to win!! : )