[or-roots] is anything happening out there?

[Harguess, Dale]

Funny that this subject should come up.  At my last Orange County
California Genealogical Society meeting our speaker did her program on
this subject.  After hearing what she had to say it was my understanding
that it is still a long way off before it will be available to the
general public.  It does sound like they are working very hard to clean
up the redundant and inaccurate data that is currently in Family Search.
I applaud their effort.

Dale

 

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Steve & Ronda Howard wrote:



What is New Family Search?


perhaps you might find clues in this website --

https://new.familysearch.org/en/static/help/pdf/qsg_whats_new.pdf

It's seems to be the latest version of a linked Ancestral File, and
includes the ability to do the Mormon ordinances online in real time --
currently available only by password from your stake president, meaning
you need to be Mormon, it has been in a sorta beta test mode for the
last year and a half or so, and I hear it is getting closer to being
released to public availability.  Note the list of approved software to
access it in the link provided.  Last I heard (September), Mormons in
the SLC area did not have access as the Church just wanted to test it,
not overload it initially.  I did not note any reference to it in the
FHL in SLC when we were there.

The only reason I know anything about it is that I use the Ancestral
Quest software, and since it is approved for nFS, there is some
discussion of it on the AQ group talk lists.

So what it means is that Ingrid is Mormon.

There is also another FamilySearch resource that maybe y'all haven't
noticed, and that is http://pilot.familysearch.org/ -- try it to see
what is available there.  Some interesting search abilities and
resources ...

Bill Strickland

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