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FamilySearch International

Predecessor	Genealogical Society of Utah
Formation	November 13, 1894 (1894-eleven-xiii)
Founders	Franklin D. Richards James H. Anderson A. Milton Musser
Founded at	Salt Lake City, Utah, U.Due south.
Type	Nonprofit organization[1]
Purpose	Family history genealogy kinship and descent
Location	Table salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Services	Record digitization and preservation digital tape access genealogical collaboration tools genealogical training
President and CEO	Steve Rockwood[ii]
Parent organisation	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Website	familysearch.org

FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. Information technology is operated past The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and is closely connected with the church'due south Family History Department.^{[three] [4]} The Family History Section was originally established in 1894 as the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) and is the largest genealogy arrangement in the globe.^[5] FamilySearch maintains a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family unit history. Facilitating the performance of LDS ordinances for deceased relatives is another major aim of the organisation. Although information technology requires user business relationship registration, information technology offers free access to its resources and service online at FamilySearch.org. In addition, FamilySearch offers personal assistance at more than v,100 family history centers in 140 countries, including the Family unit History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[vi] The Family Tree section allows user-generated content to be contributed to the genealogical database. Every bit of Feb 2021^[update], at that place are over one.3 billion individuals in the tree and the historical records database contains over five.7 billion digital images, including digitized books, digitized microfilm, and other digital records.^{[7] [8]}

History [edit]

Genealogical Society of Utah [edit]

Logo of the Genealogical Society of Utah

GSU, the predecessor of FamilySearch, was founded on 1 Nov 1894. Its purpose was to create a genealogical library to be used both by its members and other people, to share educational information almost genealogy, and to get together genealogical records in society to perform religious ordinances for the dead. It was founded under the direction of LDS Church leaders, when the Commencement Presidency appointed Franklin D. Richards equally the first president.^[9]

The lodge published the Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine from 1910 to 1940.^[10]

The GSU began microfilming records of genealogical importance in 1938.^[11] In 1963, the microfilm collection was moved to the newly completed Granite Mount Records Vault for long-term preservation.

In 1975, the GSU became the LDS Church'south Genealogical Section, which later became the Family History Section. At that time, its head officer was renamed president from executive manager, starting during Theodore Yard. Burton's term.^[9] However, the title "President of the Genealogical Society of Utah" and other GSU titles were yet used and bestowed upon department officers.

In 2000, the Church consolidated its Family History and Historical departments into the Family and Church History Department, and Richard E. Turley Jr. became director of the new department and president of the GSU. Later this decision was reversed and the Family unit History Department was separated from the Church History Department, condign its own department.^[12]

In 2008, the Vatican issued a statement calling the practice known as baptism for the expressionless "erroneous" and directing its dioceses to keep parish records from Latter-solar day Saints performing genealogical enquiry.^[13]

Presidents of the Genealogical Society of Utah [edit]

Name	Term	Notes
Franklin D. Richards	1894–99	[nine]
Anthon H. Lund	1900–21	[nine]
Charles West. Penrose	1921–25	[9]
Anthony W. Ivins	1925–34	[9]
Joseph Fielding Smith	1934–61	[9]
Junius Jackson	1961–62	[9]
N. Eldon Tanner	1963	[9]
Howard W. Hunter	1964–72	[9]
Theodore M. Burton	1972–78	[9]
J. Thomas Fyans	1978	[nine]
Royden G. Derrick	1979–84	[nine]
Richard G. Scott	1984–88	[9]
J. Richard Clarke	1988–93	[9]
Monte J. Brough	1993–2000?	[nine]
Richard E. Turley Jr.	2000?–08	[14]

FamilySearch [edit]

FamilySearch logo used 2006–2013

In 1998, the GSU began digital imaging of records and in about August 1998 the determination was made by LDS Church leaders to build a genealogical website. In May 1999, the website offset opened to the public as FamilySearch.^[xv] The beta version, released Apr one, about immediately went off-line, overloaded considering of high popularity.^[4] Just a few days after the official launch, the website had received an estimated 100 million hits. To handle the load, site visitors were only given access to the site for 15 minutes at a time.^[16] In Nov 1999, 240 meg names were added, bringing the full number of entries to 640 million.^[17]

In 2009, the LDS Church launched a collaborative tree known as "New FamilySearch." It was the precursor to the current "FamilySearch Family Tree," and was only available to church members.^[xviii] The system was an effort to combine multiple genealogical submissions to FamilySearch's databases into one single tree, but it did not allow users to edit information that they had not submitted. It besides was hard to add sources to individuals in the tree or decide what was the correct information among multiple submissions. Past Apr 2011, plans were in place to redesign the database into a more collaborative platform.^[19]

In 2011, the FamilySearch website received a major redesign. The previous site had allowed users to only search i database at a time, but the new version immune sitewide searches of multiple databases. Information technology too included the addition of more databases likewise equally some digitized and indexed microfilms.^[20]

On sixteen November 2012, information technology was announced that the new Family Tree database would be available to all users of New FamilySearch, and that the New FamilySearch database would eventually be phased out.^[21] On 5 March 2013, information technology was announced that Family Tree would now be available to everyone, whether or non they were members of the LDS Church.^{[22] [23]} On 16 Apr 2013 FamilySearch completely revamped the site blueprint more often than not, with new features and a changed color scheme. Some of the new features include an interactive fan chart and some press capabilities, also as the ability to add photos to Family Tree.^[24]

In Feb 2014, FamilySearch announced partnerships with Ancestry.com, findmypast and MyHeritage, which includes sharing massive amounts of their databases with those companies, and members of the LDS Church receiving free subscriptions with these companies. They also have a continuing relationship with BillionGraves, in which the photographed and indexed images of graves are both searchable on FamilySearch and are linked to individuals in the family tree.^{[25] [26]} At the finish of 2015, FamilyTree had 1.1 billion persons added by 2.47 1000000 contributors.^[27]

In Baronial 2017, FamilySearch discontinued distribution of physical microfilm to its family history centers due to large-calibration availability of digital images of those films and planned digitization of remaining films.^[28] In May 2018, FamilySearch added and digitized its 2 billionth record.^[8] In September 2020, FamilySearch announced that it now includes eight billion names, 3.2 billion digital images, and 490,000 digital books, with over i million new records each mean solar day. 7 billion names from almost every country were added inside the last 10 years.^[29]

Activities [edit]

RootsTech [edit]

Since 2011, FamilySearch International has organized an almanac family history and engineering science conference chosen RootsTech. It is held annually in the Salt Palace Convention Middle, Table salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. The conference is attended past genealogists, technology developers, and members of the LDS Church building. In 2014 there were nearly xiii,000 people in attendance. Equally of 2020, it is the globe's largest family unit history and technology briefing in the world.^[30] It is the successor to 3 former conferences: the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy, the Family History Technology Workshop^[31] and the FamilySearch Developers Briefing.^[32] Over the years, RootsTech has welcomed a number of celebrities, television personalities, and actors every bit keynote speakers.

Website [edit]

Historical Records [edit]

The main service of the FamilySearch website is to offer access to digital images and indexes of genealogical records. These images can exist searched forth with a number of databases. While access to the records is e'er gratis, some records have restricted access, and can just be viewed at a Family History Heart, an Affiliate Library or by LDS members.^{[33] [34]} FamilySearch.org too contains the catalog of the Family History Library in Salt Lake Urban center, Utah. The library holds genealogical records for over 110 countries, territories, and possessions, including over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records; 742,000 microfiche; 490,000 books, serials, and other formats; and 4,500 periodicals.^[35]

FamilySearch Family Tree [edit]

FamilySearch FamilyTree (FSFT) is a "1 earth tree," or a unified database that aims to incorporate one entry for each person recorded in genealogical records. All FamilySearch users are able to add persons, link them to existing persons or merge duplicates. Sources, images, and audio files can too be attached to persons in the tree.^[36]

In that location are also several features specific to the membership of the LDS Church, facilitating temple ordinance work. In keeping with an agreement with Jewish groups and to forestall corruption, performing LDS ordinances for Holocaust victims or celebrities results in account suspension until the researcher proves a legitimate family connectedness to the bailiwick of their search.^[37]

Every bit of July 2014, the Family Tree website was available in 11 languages:

• English
• Deutsch (German)
• Español (Castilian)
• Français (French)
• Italiano (Italian)
• 日本語 (Japanese)
• 한국어 (Korean)
• Português (Portuguese)
• Русский (Russian)
• Svenska (Swedish)
• 中文 (Chinese)

By ii Dec 2020, the website was available in twenty additional languages^[38] to make 31 total languages:

• Български (Bulgarian)
• Česky (Czech)
• Dansk (Danish)
• Suomi (Finnish)
• Vosa vakaviti (Fijian)
• Magyar (Hungarian)
• Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
• ភាសាខ្មែរ (Khmer)
• Монгол (Mongolian)
• Nederlands (Dutch)
• Norsk (Norwegian)
• Polski (Polish)
• Română (Romanian)
• Slovenčina (Slovak)
• Gagana Samoa (Samoan)
• Shqip (Albanian)
• Svenska (Swedish)
• ภาษาไทย (Thai)
• Faka-tonga (Tongan)
• Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)

FamilySearch allows users to input same-sex activity marriages or other unions.^[39]

Indexing projects [edit]

Searchable indexes of the records on FamilySearch are created by volunteers of the FamilySearch Indexing program. To ensure greater accuracy, each batch of records is indexed past an indexer and is so checked past a more experienced indexer. Indexing volunteers demand not exist members of the LDS Church. FamilySearch is currently working with genealogical societies all around the earth to index local projects.

At the end of 2010, 548 1000000 vital records had been transcribed and fabricated publicly bachelor through the FamilySearch website.^[40] In April 2013, FamilySearch Indexing completed their goal to offer one billion indexed records online.^[41]

Pedagogy [edit]

FamilySearch offers free lessons on FamilySearch.org to help people learn how to detect their ancestors. The topics range from bones research to training on specific record types and are designed for both beginners and experienced researchers. Near of the classes come up from enquiry consultants in the Family History Library in Salt Lake Urban center, but FamilySearch is also collaborating with partners such equally the Mid-Continent Public Library in Independence, Missouri, to record and post classes.

In 2007, it was decided to start a Family History Enquiry Wiki to assistance FamilySearch users and others researching genealogy and family history to find and share data on data sources and research tips. The first version of the wiki was built on the Plone wiki software product, but it was soon discovered that MediaWiki software was much more suitable, so in Jan 2008 it was moved to the MediaWiki platform. In the intervening years it was rolled out in other languages, and as of July 2014 it was available in xi languages.^[42] The other language wikis are found via links at the bottom of the wiki homepage. The wiki in English had over 79,500 manufactures and over 150,000 registered users as of July 2014.^[43]

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In 2009 a forums site, which grew to include a variety of subject and topic categories, was started. Some of the extra features included social groups where people could discuss a particular surname or other topic related to genealogy. Assistance topics were also featured with discussions related to New FamilySearch (new.familysearch.org), FamilySearch Indexing, and some other products and site features. The forums were never linked from the homepage, simply were attainable at forums.familysearch.org. Effective 31 December 2012 the forums were airtight, although they remain available in read-just form.^[44] In 2018, FamilySearch launched a new community forum, called "FamilySearch Community." ^[45]

Many FamilySearch users have created communities and Facebook groups in an try to answering members' genealogy inquiry questions, aid in translation of documents, and other resources. These research communities encompass the majority of the earth'southward countries, assuasive members abiding assist with genealogical research.^[46]

Mobile apps [edit]

FamilySearch has two mobile apps: FamilySearch Tree and FamilySearch Memories. They are both supported in iOS and Android and are available in x different languages. The FamilySearch Tree app provides about of the features available on the FamilySearch website when exploring the Family Tree. The FamilySearch Memories app accesses the features in the "Memories" section of the Family Tree, and allows users to tape audio and upload photos directly into the FamilySearch Family Tree from the mobile app.^{[47] [48]}

Facilities [edit]

Family History Library [edit]

FamilySearch operates the Family History Library in Salt Lake Urban center, Utah. The library was built in 1985 as a successor to previous libraries run by the Genealogical Club of Utah. The library is open to the public and has a big collection of international genealogical materials, including microfilm, books, and digital materials. The library'southward catalog and many of their digital materials are located at the FamilySearch website.

Granite Mountain Records Vault [edit]

FamilySearch stores copies of their records in a dry out, environs-controlled facility built into Granite Mount in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Table salt Lake Urban center, Utah. The storage facility is known every bit the Granite Mountain Records Vault. The vault stores over two.four 1000000 rolls of microfilm and 1 million microfiches.

Family History Centers [edit]

FamilySearch operates over 5,100 Family History Centers in 140 countries around the world. The centers are branches of the Family History Library, oft located inside LDS Church buildings. Their purpose is to aid people with their genealogy and provide access to and aid with genealogical materials and software provided past FamilySearch.

See also [edit]

• Baptism for the expressionless § Genealogy and baptism
• GEDCOM
• Immigrant Ancestors Project
• List of Mormon family unit organizations
• Personal Bequeathed File

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Taylor, Rebecca M. "A Century of Genealogy" The Friend, March 1994.
• "Genealogical Society: A century of steady growth and development" Church building News, November 1994.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FamilySearch

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