The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

When teaching the 14 year old kids in Sunday School, I gave up trying to use the analog TV/VCR/DVD equipment. It was much easier to bring my laptop to play the church DVD segments for the lessons. The remote on the meetinghouse equipment never worked for the DVDs, so I could never select the right s...

I realize that this is a technology forum and discussions are always going to head off in that direction, but I would like to see a more serious discussion on how we can or should reorganize our library. Would there be enough interest in this topic to justify a new forum? I would think that since e...

What is the latest thinking about making the FamilySearch Wiki product backlog public? Having reread this thread was publishing the product backlog on a blog the best solution? The publishing of the wiki development backlog items is currently under discussion. We appreciate your suggestion for usin...

Where do we get the "Quick Logon ID" ??

At the beginning of this year the lease on all of our Sharp copiers expired and the Church replaced our stake office copier with a HP Laserjet M3027 and the library copier with a Xerox Workcentre 4150. (Let me just say I absolutely despise the HP Laserjet because it takes at least 5 minutes to warm...

When we originally imported the data into the MediaWiki instance of FamilySearch Wiki, the import of Georgia the country was overridden by the import of Georgia the USA state. We currently do not have a page for Georgia the country, nor a portal page for either location. I am currently creating port...

When an article in the wiki is edited with the "redirect" command, is there a way to reopen the article? When conducting a search, or clicking on an article in the search results that has the redirect command within the article, the wiki will take the user to the other article. Sometimes there's a n...

Is there a Mac genealogy software that IS on the list of those that are working on syncing with newFS?