FamilySearch Survey with Interesting Questions

I just took a survey from FamilySearch and I found the questions asked very interesting.

1. FamilySearch is considering developing a system to help coordinate family history work within a family or family organization. Would you be supportive of other family members contributing to your family tree?
2. Would you feel comfortable asking other family members to help research someone in the tree? 
3. Would you help support other family members that asked where they could help on the family tree?
4. FamilySearch is considering developing a system to help coordinate family history work within a family or family organization. Would you use a service that helped you coordinate with other family members on where they should work in the tree?
5. Would you use this coordination system to assist and mentor other family members that were working on the family tree? 
6. In your role as family coordinator, would you want to review the family history work of other family members as part of the mentoring process? 
7. Do you believe that more family names would be submitted to the temple if you could coordinate the work being done in your family tree?

I really like the sounds of the system they are considering.  It reminds me of the website FamilyPursuit, I loved it, but I couldn't get my family members to join.  Now if it was right on FamilySearch they might be more inclined. It's my hope that FamilySearch really does develop such a system.

Visit Family Pursuit at the St. George Family History Expo

Come meet us at the St. George Family History Expo and be the first to learn how to connect to New FamilySearch through a Private Family Tree on Family Pursuit. We will be teaching 2 classes on how to upload your research conclusions to new FamilySearch.

What: Family Pursuit: Getting your Family Involved with new FamilySearch - Even in Utah

Where: Entrada Room B

When: Saturday February 28th, 1pm or 4pm

You can attend either class to learn more about how Family Pursuit involves your entire family, novice to expert, in family history research and connects you to New FamilySearch to add your family to the FamilySearch family tree database.

We also have vendor booths 213 and 215 in the free Exhibit Hall. Stop by for demonstrations and more information.

About the St. George Family History Expo:

5th Annual St. George, Utah, Family History Expo
The Dixie Center at 1835 Convention Center Dr
St. George, UT 84790

Feb 27-28, 2009 – 8am to 6pm

Early registration is going on now for only $60, through Feb 14th. Thereafter and at the door the price is $65. Your registration allows you to attend two full days of classes from world-class genealogists and vendors of ground-breaking technology, like Family Pursuit.

Upload Photos and Documents on Family Pursuit

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 tree
• Document your research with images of source documents
• Upload scanned images of old photos, letters and other documents
• Upload scanned images of research notes and logs and attach them to your research projects
• Upload previously written histories and stories about your ancestors
• Upload all file types including: PDF, DOC, audio and video files
  

All images are stored at full resolution making it easier for family members to read scanned documents such as birth, marriage or death certificates and census records. Images and documents can also be attached to multiple individuals in the family tree as in the case of a family photo or census household record.

Uploading images and documents is only available in a Private Family Tree. To find out more about Private Family Trees on Family Pursuit, visit our website at www.familypursuit.com.

Family Pursuit Announces the Release of Private Family Trees

Renee's note: The following press release is from Family Pursuit. I just signed up for a private tree and look forward to learning more about the site. My sister-in-law wants to begin to do genealogy and I think this is the best avenue for us to share our information and work on the database at the same time. I will keep you informed of our progress.


All the major problems have been worked out, so now it’s time for a press release! We announced the following today:

Provo, Utah, Jan. 14 - Family Pursuit, a leader in online collaborative genealogy research tools, today announced the release of Private Family Trees. Designed specifically for collaboration, this unique wiki-based website is now available for private use for the genealogist who is looking for a better way to work with others. Family Pursuit’s private family trees allow researchers to share not only conclusions, but their ongoing research, sources, extractions and theories with those invited to join the trees. They are the perfect solution for sharing research with the entire family, interacting with other family genealogists, or working within a family organization or one-name study.

Some of the collaborative tools available for private family trees include:

• Inviting an unlimited number of family members to join a private tree
• Organizing and sharing ongoing genealogy research
• Creating and assigning tasks
• Sharing research logs and extractions
• Adding living individuals
• Keeping all information about living and deceased individuals private
• Involving and mentoring family members
• Participating in family discussions
• Receiving notifications of changes made by tree users
• Rolling back and forth any change made by any user
• Advanced merging and unmerging
  

Along with these new private trees, Family Pursuit continues to offer its Community Tree which has been created for genealogists to share research with the genealogy community to reduce duplicate efforts, accelerate research, and network and connect with distant relatives.

“We have found that many genealogists feel more comfortable working privately with those they already know. A Private Family Tree offers this security,” said Mike Martineau, founder of Family Pursuit. “When genealogists feel confident in their research conclusions, they will be able to easily copy their conclusions to the Community Tree for others to view and add to. A Private Family Tree also allows the inexperienced genealogist to be privately mentored by more knowledgeable relatives. We are excited to offer a bridge between those who are overwhelmed by the amount of research and those who want to help but don’t know how. We look forward to continuing our progress in developing these important tools, and being a part of bringing more people into the work.”

About Family Pursuit

Started in 2004, Family Pursuit, a Provo, Utah company, provides web-based applications to accelerate family history work by providing a framework for genealogy researchers to work together in their efforts and to easily share their ideas, theories, research and conclusions. Family Pursuit enables genealogy enthusiasts to involve family members who have never engaged in family history work, bringing families together in sharing the rewarding experience of researching, exploring, and creating a personal understanding of their heritage. Visit www.familypursuit.com for more information.