Genealogy from the perspective of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon, LDS)

Saturday, January 5, 2019

What's Coming to FamilySearch in 2019

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-2019-whats-coming/
FamilySearch.org has announced a number of new additions and refinements to the website scheduled for introduction in 2019. They include the following:

  • Online Interactive Discovery Experiences
  • Family Tree and Friends, Associates, and Neighbor (FAN) Relationships
  • Updated Find Capability
  • Record audio remembrances related to uploaded Memories photos
  • Memories organized in albums according to interests and/or needs
  • RootsTech London 2019
You definitely have to read the blog post for the details. See What's Coming to FamilySearch in 2019.

Adding friends, associates, and neighbors to the Family Tree will be an interesting development. If this feature worked with the Maps function to see how neighborhoods and rural areas functioned it could be a major adjunct to doing research online. But if it is simply a list of names of friends, it may turn out to be more confusing than helpful. 

Audio tagging photos on Memories would be extremely useful and timesaving. It might help to clarify why some documents and photos are attached. 

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