tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post632993611554835268..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Answers Coming at the BYU Genealogy Conference?The Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-46839444761862954112013-08-18T12:20:27.423-06:002013-08-18T12:20:27.423-06:00I am glad that you keep talking about the chasm. T...I am glad that you keep talking about the chasm. To me, the essence of genealogy is finding and arranging source documentation to support the information about family members. A number of suggestions have been made to FamilySearch to help improve and strengthen this aspect of Tree; but little or nothing seems to be happening. Everything seems to be going into adding photos and that seems to change on almost a daily basis. It also seems like tohose who are adding sources don't understand what seems to have been intended.<br />I think that FamilySearch needs to be strengthened in three areas:<br />1) Communicating what they hope users will do. For example, there is a feature to add sources to the child/parent relationship. When I ask people what they are doing with this, mostly, I get a response that they are not doing anything with it. I have several sources added that refer to a marriage, death, etc. index but the person adding the source did not provide a URL or anything else so others could view it.<br />2) Provide some visibility, with detail, as to where they are going and what they plan to do in the future. For example, are they going to provide the ability to upload documents. I have seen a number of incidents where people have uploaded documents as photos. Is this what is intended/planned?<br />3) Provide some visibility as to how the designers of the tool envisioned various features to be used. It seems like if there is no direction and people just throw whatever into the Tree that it will become filled with useless information and people, especially serious genealogists, will ignore it as not worth their time.GJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15225410378308845973noreply@blogger.com