A thought: If you write a two hundred page book of your life, how many of your descendants/relatives will read it? How many of them will even be interested enough to pick it up? And, if you are dead anyway, do you really care? I’m not even sure I have the answers to these questions…but if you’re doing genealogy research, what sort of genealogy legacy do you want to leave behind? Or do you care what happens to your research after you pass? Are you writing the stories in the hopes that just one person will read them? Or are you writing them for yourself because you enjoy it? I’m not certain I have answers this morning, but I do apparently have questions.
We’re excited to offer this completely new presentation on the full-text searching at FamilySearch. We’ve redesigned our presentation as this functionality continues to change. And…we’re adding an extensive handout complete with forms to help you find more people. Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search: A New Approach Your purchase includes: We’ll be including and discussing: Determining what is in Full-Text Search—what you can access at home and what you will have to be in a FamilySearch facility or affiliate to access. Seeing How AI Transcriptions are different—they aren’t like the transcriptions made by humans. That can change your approach. Remembering that Full-Text means every word—approaches need to differ as we aren’t looking up a name in an index any more. Asking Who is in the record? We aren’t just searching […]
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