From the WDYTYA Magazine website:
The global genealogy organisation has finally revealed its new-look website, enabling family historians to share their photographs and collaborate with other researchers completely free of charge
The newly enhanced version of www.familysearch.org allows genealogists across the globe to build, preserve and manage their research through an application named Family Tree, previously only available to members of the Church of Latter-day Saints.
Information about ancestors is then viewable in a basic pedigree format or as an interactive, colour-coded ‘Fan Chart’ displaying six generations at once.
In addition, the free site provides storage space for up to 5,000 photographs which can be labelled using tagging software. Each individual in the tree is allocated a public page to which stories about their lives can be added, as well as source citations linked to the website’s billions of historic records.
The most significant development, however, is that the new site encourages researchers to connect with other users, offering opportunities for collaboration and thereby cutting down the number of duplicate entries. These findings can then be shared via social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, enabling living relatives to add further comment and insight.
As with before the relaunch, users are also able to help out with many of FamilySearch's transcription projects. A recent campaign to transcribe all 3.8 million pages of the 1940 US Census from the digital scans was completed by volunteers in the space of just five months.
“Every person who has ever lived has a right to be remembered and is a story waiting to be told,” says FamilySearch CEO, Dennis C Brimhall.
“We all treasure memorable family photos and ancestral stories that inspire, amuse, or connect us. Families can now share and preserve for posterity those social heirlooms that help vitalise their family history.”
Carol
The global genealogy organisation has finally revealed its new-look website, enabling family historians to share their photographs and collaborate with other researchers completely free of charge
The newly enhanced version of www.familysearch.org allows genealogists across the globe to build, preserve and manage their research through an application named Family Tree, previously only available to members of the Church of Latter-day Saints.
Information about ancestors is then viewable in a basic pedigree format or as an interactive, colour-coded ‘Fan Chart’ displaying six generations at once.
In addition, the free site provides storage space for up to 5,000 photographs which can be labelled using tagging software. Each individual in the tree is allocated a public page to which stories about their lives can be added, as well as source citations linked to the website’s billions of historic records.
The most significant development, however, is that the new site encourages researchers to connect with other users, offering opportunities for collaboration and thereby cutting down the number of duplicate entries. These findings can then be shared via social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, enabling living relatives to add further comment and insight.
As with before the relaunch, users are also able to help out with many of FamilySearch's transcription projects. A recent campaign to transcribe all 3.8 million pages of the 1940 US Census from the digital scans was completed by volunteers in the space of just five months.
“Every person who has ever lived has a right to be remembered and is a story waiting to be told,” says FamilySearch CEO, Dennis C Brimhall.
“We all treasure memorable family photos and ancestral stories that inspire, amuse, or connect us. Families can now share and preserve for posterity those social heirlooms that help vitalise their family history.”
Carol
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