A New Look for FamilySearch
Thursday July 17, 2008
When I visted the popular genealogy site FamilySearch.org today to do some searching in the IGI and in the Georgia Death Certificates at FamilySearch Record Search, I was greeted by a new, sleeker homepage design. I'm not sure exactly when it launched, but it was sometime this week - I'm on that site for some reason or another almost daily!
I like the new look as it makes most of the most commonly used features easy to find. If you're looking for the Record Search pilot, you'll find it under the main search box as "Record Search pilot" link, as well as under the "Search Records" dropdown at the top of the page (although I missed those dropdowns the first time I looked at the page as the blue on blue doesn't really stand out). There's also a direct link to the FamilySearch Indexing project which I've blogged about previously. "What's New" takes you to a new introductory page for the FamilySearch Indexing project.
Comments
While the new LDS page is quite pretty, the content suffers. Many of my ancestors who appeared in the British census of 1881, no longer appear. Thankfully, I have hard copies of the records.
I’m confident that Family Search will get things back on track quickly. Theirs is one of the most valuable sites for researchers.