Jamboree: Share your Favorite Ancestor Photos for a Chance to Win

To celebrate the Jamboree theme of Lights, Camera, ANCESTORS, our partner, 1000memories, is sponsoring a photo contest, and you can win a prize valued at $220. With Jamboree just days away, you're running out of time to participate.

Check out the submissions so far:  View the photos at http://1000memories.com/shoeboxes/2571-southern-california-genealogy-jamboree?h=5698c1 

1000memories.com is the new shoebox for your old photos. 1000memories is a free site that lets you share and preserve the family photos that are sitting in your old albums and hard drives. 1000memories makes it easy to digitize, preserve, and share your family history with the right people.

Share your favorite ancestor photo for a chance to win one of THREE Scan Cafe scanning kits to digitize up to 1,000 photos, slides, and or negatives (a $220 value). The photo in each of these three categories with the most “likes” by the start of Jamboree wins!

• The most humorous photo of an ancestor
• Pre-1900 photos
• Photo of the best-dressed ancestor

Here’s how it works.

• Visit 1000memories.com and register for a free account.
• Email mike@1000memories.com for an invitation to the Jamboree community shoebox. Put "Jamboree Shoebox" in the subject line.
• Add your favorite ancestor photos at http://bit.ly/HmnmaS and identify the category by adding it as the photo caption. 
• Identify the person in the photo by adding a tag. Please include the name and other information as you wish: time period and location where the photo was taken.
• You can upload as many photos as you like. 
• Please email mike@1000memories.com for assistance using ShoeBox.

Voting 

• View the photos that have been uploaded. Feel free to check back often to see new photos as they are added.
• Vote for the favorite photos by clicking on the photo, and then clicking on the small heart on the left side of the photo to “like” them. [UPDATE] It seems that the "like" feature has moved to the bottom right corner.
• You may vote for any photo only once.
• Voting closes at 12:00 noon Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, June 8, when the doors officially open for Jamboree.
• Winners will be announced during the Social Hour at 5:00 on Saturday.
• The contest is open to everyone. Need not be a Jamboree attendee to participate.
• Only one prize will be issued per person.

Notes

• Photos will be accessible to the public through Internet Archive "forever" and you may choose to remove them after Jamboree. Your call.
• Photo slideshows will be displayed throughout Jamboree.
• Officers of the Southern California Genealogical Society and the Jamboree Committee may participate but are not eligible to win.

Helpful Tips

If you don’t have digital copies of your photos, you can scan your photos using ShoeBox by 1000memories - a free photo-scanning app for iPhone and Android. If you don’t have a smartphone or scanner, simply take a photo of the photo with a digital camera and upload it to the Jamboree shoebox.

Prize Details

ScanCafe is the global leader in professional scanning services, having scanned over 65 million images. Scanning kits are specially designed packing boxes to send up to 1,000 photos, slides, and/or negatives to ScanCafe’s scanning facility. Each of your photos is scanned by hand by a trained technician, a digital copy is automatically added to a private shoebox on 1000memories, and your originals are returned to you along with a copy of your photos on DVD.

Remember

You can't win if you don't play!