FamilySearch.org has also become a portal to thousands of other genealogical Web sites. When a user searches for a particular ancestor or locale on the Web site, the search spans all Family History Library resources in the database as well as the contents of other Web sites, improving the chance of finding a match. People submitting information to the Pedigree Resource File or Ancestral File can list themselves as submitters so they can be contacted by others who may be working on the same family line. I can network with those people, letting us pool our information so we can have more complete family records. For Kemp, stories of families connecting are the perks of her job.
Families move apart and they lose track of each other.
And they have been able to fill in their pedigrees and establish those family relationships. Hits totaled 3 billion before the end of its first year online. Users may order copies of records to view at the family history center nearest them. Inc. All Rights Reserved.