I attended our stake's Family History seminar on Saturday. I went there really excited to learn about the new Family Search website, where we can find out much easier whether temple work has been done. It was made with the express purpose of eliminating all the duplication that is done all the time in our temples.
I was hoping it would be the MAGIC BULLET, that it would make genealogy completely easy and painless. Instead I learned from Sister H. that it will still take lots of work to look at each individual ancestor, and look at all the similar names, and figure out if that individual is really the same person.
She compared us to the pioneers of the 1840s-1850s. She said they had to make their own way across the nation to Utah. Now we are presented with this new Family Search website, and even though it is not perfect and it will not be easy, we are the people that have to forge ahead and figure it out. We will be the pioneers who will make it easier for those coming afterward.
Dang.
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