Tech Forum

The Family History department are developing many new web application using Adobe Flex. Previews of the apps. can be seen at labs.FamilySearch.org. Many FamilySearch developers will be attending the Adobe Tour on the 24th. All interested developers are invited. Free food, prizes and a raffle Date an...

Mac FamilyTree does not mind that I mention that they have been making progress with our FamilySearch APIs. I presented their product and the plans to interface with new FamilySearch at a seminar this summer at the AppleStore in Salt Lake City. No talk about when but I can say they are serious.

There are many consumer oriented services for hosting photos. Some make it possible to select who can see them and the resolutions of the images. Flickr, bubbleshare.com shutterfly, pbase.com, kodak gallery, etc. I t would be nice if these services could correlated the images with people in the Fami...

This is a temporary measure. The limits will be raised or removed after we complete necessary data reorganization.

We are working on a method so that people can browse information about images before they are fully index. This way they can get closed to what they are looking for without getting to the exact image that has the information. They would have to browse multiple images to find the one they want. The h...

Hopefully the training and priesthood leadership that is a part of the roll-out temple by temple district will promote the responsibility that we all have. .92 is going into beta January 23rd. 1.0 version is reserved for when the site is public for non-members.

New FamilySearch API, technology and third-party products will be showcased the week of the FamilySearch Developers Conference, March 12, 2008 at the BYU Conference Center. The purpose of of the conference is to learn from FamilySearch engineers and community developers about the new FamilySearch We...

All of the benefits and agreements for FamilySearch Developer Services and FamilySearch Affiliates programs are easily accessible from DevNet.FamilySearch.org. Developers are building this new community by joining, sharing ideas and code, and actively participating in forums, news, events, and the F...

“New FamilySearch Web Services has spawned an active Developer Community” FamilySearch has release Web Services for it New FamilySearch family tree. This means that software companies in the genealogy marketplace can create programmatic interfaces to read and write to the data in the New FamilySearc...

Your comments are greatly appreciation. We are looking at better mechanisms for transfering owndership from one contributor to another in the case of death. Then the new owner could handle the names. Also the issue of expiring reservations is still being considered but no decision has been made yet.