FamilySearch helps to #LIGHTtheWORLD
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A FamilySearch blog post discusses three ideas regarding how each of us can #LIGHTtheWORLD and spread joy among friends and family throughout the holiday season.
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Family History—get high resolution photos in a snap using PhotoScan by Google Photos
With PhotoScan by Google Photos (a free app), photos from the past meet scanner from the future.
MLH 2012 Giveaway #4: MyHeritage Genealogy
And… we’re back! After a few days of needed R&R for Christmas and the surrounding days, I’m back to doing our giveaways! This one’s for any Genealogists or anyone interested…
1st Ever Mormon Life Hacker Live Hangout – Dec ’12
On Sunday evening we held the first ever MLH live video Hangout on Google+. We used the “Hangouts on Air” feature which live-streamed the hangout for anyone to watch, on…
Learn How You’re Related to Prophets & Friends With Family Seek
Family Seek is a great little mobile app from the creators of CreateFan that we previously reviewed, which automatically creates a fan-style family tree for you. Family Seek allows you to quickly…
FamilySearch Releases Millions of Free Civil War Records
FamilySearch recently announced that it has indexed and released millions of free Civil War records to coincide with the 150th anniversary of that war. You can access the records at http://www.familysearch.org/civilwar.…
Advance Family History While You Wait: Indexing Mobile App
During the recent RootsTech conference FamilySearch announced a great new mobile app. It’s available for Apple iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad) and Android (currently in beta) devices. It’s very much like the…
Use Greplin to Search Your Digital History
In today’s digital world, most of us are keeping some kind of a digital diary, whether we mean to or not. Between email, facebook, twitter, blogs, calendars, feed readers, documents,…
Use Your Camera For Genealogy, Notes & More
Jill Holmes
A huge percentage of people have a camera of some type with them at all times. iPhones, Android, BlackBerry, and even many “dumb” phones are getting better & better cameras.…
RootsTech 2012: Should You Go?, Our Presentations, & Special Price
Special Discounted Price RootsTech is coming right up! It’s the 2nd – 4th of Feb, so less than 2 weeks away. Krystal from the RootsTech 2012 Outreach Team contacted me…
