family tree

For those who may not know, for the past few years the Church has been overhauling and rebuilding FamilySearch, one of the world’s premiere family history and genealogy websites, to expand its features and functionality significantly. It has been several years in the making, and is slowly being rolled out to members in selected temple districts across the world. From what I have been able to gather, the new FamilySearch will enable members to do much more family history and temple ordinance preparation work from home online. Some of the new features will include:

• Add, correct, and manage family histories online
• See what temple work needs to be done for ancestors
• Prepare names for temple ordinance work at home over the internet
• Easily see ordinance information and status of work in progress
• Significantly reduce duplication of research and ordinance work
• Correct personal submissions/data in real time
• Dispute the submissions of others
• Work collaboratively with family members and relatives
• Find living relatives not known to exist
• Print temple ordinance cards at home ((http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/12/the-new-familysearch/))

The new FamilySearch has not been rolled out to [Read more…]