Playing Around at FamilySearch Labs
Saturday June 9, 2007
For those of us with an unsatiable curiousity for what's coming next to the world of genealogy, beta sites such as FamilySearch Labs help fuel our passion. You can check out what the development teams at FamilySearch are working on next, and help test and comment on them in real-time. The current project - Pedigree Viewer - has advanced considerably in the past few months based on input from testers. There's also a Life Browser under development which serves as a visual gallery of information about a particular person - highlighting photos, videos, documents, and other artifacts. Check it out and see what's planned for the new and improved FamilySearch. You can even keep up with the latest additions and improvements in the FamilySearch Labs blog. Once new technologies are tweaked and considered to be a success, they are moved to FamilySearch.org for prime time release. The popular FamilySearchIndexing project grew out of FamilySearch Labs, which means that the final version works - and works well.
If you'd like to help contribute to the future of online genealogy, then head on over to FamilySearch Labs and check it out.
Comments
Kimberly,
Thanks for the heads up on the FamilySearch Labs - especially their blog. These folks are showing us all how to put technology to work in our research.
I love family search labs but lately I haven’t been able to get into it. It keeps asking to instal Flash Player and when I do it
my computer says it was succesfully install but it still won’t let me in. What can I do?????????? please. help
Alicia,
I had this problem too a while back. I think it’s a glitch in Internet Explorer. I downloaded a new browser - Mozilla Firefox. As long as I use Firefox to surf the web, everything works fine.