What is going on with FamilySearch?

In the not too distant past, I had a lot of news to share aboutFamilySearch. There were upgrades to New FamilySearch, new additions toRecord Search and whole lot of other things going on. Recently, thingshave apparently, at least from the perspective of an outsider, sloweddown considerably. I thought it might be a good idea to take stock andevaluate each of the more accessible websites from FamilySearch.

First, let's take a look at the parent organization, FamilySearch.FamilySearch is the tradename used by The Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints for its genealogical organization. Both FamilySearchand FamilySearch International are registered tradenames in the State ofUtah registered to an individual at the address of the Church officebuilding in Salt Lake City, Utah. Just as a note, the Wikipedia articleon FamilySearch is far from complete. In looking at the Genealogical Society ofUtah/FamilySearch homepage, it comes up with the message "Web SiteMaintenance In Progress." This is probably appropriate since thecopyright on the site says 1999-2007 and a lot has happened since 2007.Pure speculation, but it is likely the website is moving even fartheraway from the old Genealogical Society of Utah tradename. We will haveto wait and see what changes are made to this site.

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