Family History Revolution
My husband is currently a senior at BYU studying Computer Science. He is taking a class titled, Ethics and Computers in Society (CS404), in which he often has to write a blog entry about various topics. His blog entry for this past week was on Family History Work. He has told me many times before that my genealogy research should not be so tedious and that computers could make it a whole lot easier and more time efficient. Here is his recent post.
The day after he wrote this, Ransom Love (Director, Strategic Relationships, Family & Church History Dept. for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), visited his CS404 class and talked about exactly what my husband has been telling me. The LDS church is currently working on having an open community for everyone to contribute to one big family tree and for computers to search through records themselves and upload the names into the tree. Love estimates about 12 months until the launch of this new program.