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Any updates for FamilySearch?

Posted by James Tanner on August 2, 2010 at 8:45am
In the BYU Continuing Education announcement of the Conference on FamilyHistory and Genealogy recently concluded, the senior product managerfor FamilySearch, Daniel C. Lawyer, was scheduled to present "The Future of FamilySearch (Something Big is Coming Soon)"Although there were a lot of comments about a presentation by Curt B.Witcher on the coming Dark Ages of Genealogy and a few news accounts ofthe presentation by Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander, I found no commentsat all about Lawyer's presentation. Searching further, his talk wasapparently about the update to the FamilySearch.org website.

A recent E-mail to the Beta testers for the new site indicates that theyplan on concluding the testing on about the 5th of August. In the past,the conclusion of Beta testing has been the signal for an update toexisting programs. I can only speculate, but it appears that the changeover from the older FamilySearch.org website to the new format mayoccurs shortly, perhaps later this week?

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