Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Video posting exercise


I chose genealogy as my topic because when I eventually get started with my family history blog, I think it would be cool to have some helpful videos available. The embedded video is a demonstration of the FamilySearch Record Search pilot site. The interface has changed a little since this video was originally posted last year (you can view the current interface at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start), but the usefulness of the site is marvelous. And personally, you can tell that the narrator is BEYOND EXCITED at the potential of this research tool. To tell you the truth, having used this site to locate death certificates for several ancestors -- including a 5th-great-grandmother who was *at least* 106 when she died -- I'm pretty stoked about it, too. :-D