9 February 2009 Platform expands with Family Tree v2 and other new Web services Salt Lake City, Utah—FamilySearch announced today its second annual conference for software and Web application developers and its inaugural FamilySearch Software Awards. The 2009 FamilySearch Developers Conference will be held on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, in conjunction with the Brigham Young University Computerized Family History and Genealogy Conference in Provo, Utah. Attendees can register online at familyhistoryconferences.byu.edu/familysearch. The 2009 FamilySearch Developers ...

Some of you might remember that I had an article series called the "New FamilySearch Tree Sagas". It was about my adventures in working with NFS. It lasted 12 weeks and the last article was on August 16, 2008. Just because it ended doesn't mean that I finished the combining of my family members on NFS. I actually only got as far as the first four generations. It was so hard to be motivated each week to work on my families in NFS and write an article about it. When I missed a few weeks I decided to just let it die. I love NFS, I just hate how painfully slow it is to do anything in ...

The following is from FamilySearch Support. Dear Family History Consultant: In an effort to assist you in your calling, we want to make you aware of a family history conference that is coming up in the St. George, Utah area. Information at this conference may benefit you in helping members find their ancestors. The theme for this year's event is “Digging Roots: It’s that easy!” It will be held at the Dixie Convention Center on February 27-28, (Friday and Saturday) and is sponsored by Family History Expos.com. Over 100 classes will be presented by experts and industry ...

Family Pursuit is pleased to announce the release of the photo and document upload feature for Private Family Trees. You can now upload photos and documents and attach them directly to individuals in your tree, allowing the entire family to view and download. With photo and document upload you can: Upload photos of family members and attach them to their record in the treeDocument your research with images of source documentsUpload scanned images of old photos, letters and other documentsUpload scanned images of research notes and logs and attach them to your research projectsUpload ...

Hurry before it's too lateEarly Registration Register today before the St. George Family History Expo early registration pricing goes up. Sign up today at the $60.00 early pricing for two fun filled days of learning. After Saturday the 14th the price will go up. 5th Annual St. George Family History Expo February 27-28, 2009 - Details found at www.FHExpos.com. When: Feb. 27-28th, 2008 ---8 AM - 6 PM Where: The Dixie Center; 1835 Convention Center Drive; St. George, Utah 84790 Don't Delay Sign Up Today! http://www.fhex...event_id=44. Happy Valentines! Holly, ...

My friend Henry Mantell in England gave me a heads up that there are some technical issues on FamilySearch Indexing right now. Some indexers are having difficulty uploading their batches. Since this is the time I normally index I thought I would see if I will be lucky working in it today. I logged onto the FamilySearch Indexing site and there are no new messages there. I logged onto the application itself and there is one message for us there. From: Headquarters Subject: Technical Issues Date: 06 Feb 2009 There are a few issues that have come up this week that we are working to ...

FamilySearch volunteers wrapped up 14 online indexing projects already in 2009 and continue to make good progress on the 38 open projects. Great work! There are two new projects from the 1930 Mexico Census this week, and the Colorado 1920 U.S. Census project is also new.

As FamilySearch continues to expand into international record collections, there is a growing, continual need for indexers who can read the respective languages. Even if a volunteer can only dedicate a few hours a month to an indexing project, when multiplied by thousands of online volunteers, small ...

Thankfully I remembered today to put in my registration for the South Davis Regional Family History Fair being held on March 7, 2009. The deadline for early registration is this Sunday Feb 8th. ( You have to have your letter post marked by that date.) You still have time to register early for only $10.00. It's $12.00 after that date. If you register early the price includes your syllabus and a sack lunch. If you wait to pay at the door they can't guarantee you get either. The South Davis Regional Family History Fair is one of Utah's largest and best genealogy fairs. The fair is held ...

I wasn't feeling well enough to do my FamilySearch Indexing on Sunday. Now seems to be a good time, even though I am watching American Idol while indexing. I have a hard time just watching TV and doing nothing else. OK, that's only partly true because I really want to watch the show. Though I seem to listen to TV more than I actually watch it. Promise! As always I first look for messages from Headquarters for us. The FamilySearch Indexing website had nothing new for us. I did find one message in the FamilySearch Indexing Application. From: Headquarters Subject: Updates to the Indexing ...

I received the following FamilySearch Wiki Announcement: Dear FamilySearch Wiki member, Here's a quick note to tell you about today’s launch of a project from the FamilySearch Wiki community: the England Barn Raising. A wiki barn raising is a short, focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic such as "getting started with genealogical research in England." During this February 2009 barn raising, we will revise the England Portal, topic pages for the four basic English record types, and add pages for major English research sites . At the end of ...

UTAH VALLEY PAF USERS GROUP MEETING AND NEW LOCATION The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 14 Feb 2009 (Valentine's Day!), from 9 am until noon IN THE EDGEWOOD/RIVERSIDE LDS CHAPEL, 3511 North 180 East, Provo, Utah. Note the Group has moved from their old location to this new LDS chapel which is behind the Jamestown shopping plaza on the east side of University Avenue in the Provo "River Bottoms". You get to it by going on 3700 North east from University Avenue and then south on 180 East. ...