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FamilySearch Indexing is a volunteer project established and run by FamilySearch, a genealogy organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The project aims to create searchable digital indexes of scanned images of historical documents that are relevant to genealogy.
In 2014 there were nearly 13,000 people in attendance. As of 2020, it is the world's largest family history and technology conference in the world. [31] It is the successor to three former conferences: the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy, the Family History Technology Workshop [32] and the FamilySearch Developers ...
Free cooperative family history wiki using Semantic MediaWiki: FamilySearch: Images and indexes developed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Find a Grave: Online database of cemetery records (over 152 million burial records and 75 million photos) Findmypast: The largest website for digitalized and transcribed British records Fold3
[1] [2] The wiki is part of the FamilySearch website and was launched in 2007. It is a free-access, free-content online directory and handbook that uses a wiki platform to organize pages. Content is created collaboratively by a member base made up of FamilySearch employees, Mormon missionaries, and the wider online community. [3]
An anti-smoking video about a father trying to quit smoking. Hearts of the Children: 1959 27 min. Features President Joseph Fielding Smith and his emphasis on the importance of genealogy and temple work. Historical vignettes dramatize events from the lives of the Prophet Joseph Smith's ancestors in order to create interest in our own ancestors.
The FamilySearch Library (FSL), formerly the Family History Library, is a genealogical research facility in downtown Salt Lake City. The library is open to the public free of charge and is operated by FamilySearch , the genealogical arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
RootsTech is a family history and technology conference and trade show held annually in the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. It first debuted in 2011 having been created from the ground up by a team at FamilySearch. The conference claims to be the world's largest family-history technology conference. [1]
The Family History Information Standards Organisation was established in 2012 with the aim of developing international standards for family history and genealogical information. [77] One of the standards the organization proposed was Extended Legacy Format (ELF), compatible with GEDCOM 5.5(.1), but including an extensibility mechanism.