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October 2015
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The Transformation of FamilySearch.org
Robert Kehrer, senior product manager at FamilySearch.org for search experience, believes that FamilySearch is undergoing a fundamental transformation. He knows because as a former manager at Apple for most of the last decade, he participated in the change there and clearly sees the similarities. Kehrer believes that FamilySearch is seeking to change the very landscape of genealogy.
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RootsTech Is Coming!
RootsTech 2016 is coming on February 3-6. It is the largest family history conference in the world where people come together to "Celebrate Families across Generations." A new feature of next year’s conference will be a Latter-day Saint track of classes for anyone who is interested.
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Got Youth? Announcing the New Director’s Workshop
A new family history center director’s workshop focusing on youth will soon be posted online on the Family History Director’s page on LDS.org. The workshop teaches about effectively engaging youth in a family history center. Remarkable blessings are promised to young people who participate in family history.
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Online Research Classes in English and Spanish
The Family History Library and the research specialists of the United States and Canada reference team are offering 15 live webinars as part of the United States Research Seminar October 12-15, 2016. The seminar is perfect for beginning and intermediate genealogists interested in learning about United States records, FamilySearch resources, and Family History Library collections.
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#FamilyHistoryFind!!!
Thom Reed, a FamilySearch employee, was recently featured in Time Magazine, where he shared some of his own story about the challenges of finding records about ancestors who were slaves. He, along with many others who are in the African American community, are also turning their efforts to the Freedman Bureau community indexing project, which is opening a valuable new set of indexed records that will help people who are looking for their African American ancestors.
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