18 January 2024
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FamilySearch has announced its plans for the coming year, including the digitisation of millions of historical records. Read on for the highlights...
FamilySearch is a huge online library of online resources, available to users around the world free of charge. It is the home of the world's largest shared family tree and is used by millions of family historians every year.
The organisation has pledged that over the coming year, it will continue to work with record custodians and other organizations around the world to digitize millions more historical records, to preserve them and make them more widely available.
2024 plans include:
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- Record digitization efforts will include more than 75 countries in 2024 from every habitable continent and island group—Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Peru and Portugal collections should see significant new additions
- Record digitization efforts will include more than 75 countries in 2024 from every habitable continent and island group—Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Peru and Portugal collections should see significant new additions
- The organisation pledges also to continue to improve its computer-assisted indexing algorithms to recognize and index historical genealogical records in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English
- FamilySearch has been leveraging its AI-powered handwriting recognition technology to improve its record search experience and over the coming year, is working to make your search even more powerful by adding full-text search capability to select record sets
Find out more at FamilySearch.