Thursday, November 15, 2012

What's in store for family history?

Huge advances were made with family history in the 1980's and 1990's with the advent of personal computers. Although the physical copies of past family history work have their own intrinsic value, their purpose was better carried out by the digital revolution. In the late 2000's, the next innovation was FamilySearch Indexing, which was far more inspiring to those without a desire or time to compile a complete family history. Indexing names taps into the power of crowd-sourcing but, more importantly, it helps relieve a healthy amount of guilt from members of the LDS Church (myself included) who had yet to do any family history. What's next for this field? We've only just scratched the surface.

1 comment:

  1. Good point. Indexing is a great way to contribute with a small time commitment.

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