Retrospective: The Family History Guide Interns

As we look back over 10 years-plus with The Family History Guide Association, we have been blessed to work with great interns, who have helped to maintain and grow The Family History Guide website. We have active intern partnerships with Brigham Young University, BYU-Idaho, and Utah Valley University, through their History departments. Inernships are typically 50-120 hours of work, helping...

Finding Records Lost Online in the AI Universe

Note: This article was published previously in the Genealogy’s Star blog site. FamilySearch.org‘s Full-text Search capability is an overwhelming change to way genealogical searches are conducted and may well modify or replace any current way of searching historical documents. At the heart of using a previously unavailable tool for genealogical research is an artificial intelligence supported handwriting recognition.  Currently, the...