Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Family History Center Redesigned

This is a link to a "Genealogy Gems" blog about the new design for the Family Discovery Center display in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. 

Family History Center Redesigned

Some elements of this new design for attracting people to family history were also part of one of the Family Search booths in the exhibit hall associated with the RootsTech 2015 conference.  In the Joseph Smith Memorial building, there was one all-in-one monitor (smaller than the huge touch screens that make up the display), which could be placed in our Family History Center in the St. Paul Stake Center building.  In the booth in the conference exhibit hall, about twenty of these all-in-one monitors were the main attraction and people were often waiting 2 or3 deep to be able to use these new touch screen monitors.

However, we could also install a version of this software on our computers to give our Family History Center patrons an opportunity to have that type of family history discovery experience. The software that I'm referring to could even be installed on your home computer, namely RootsMapper and RelativeFinder.

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