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My Accuracy
You can review submitted batches to see how often you agree with the arbitrator. After batches have
been arbitrated, they will be available for you to view. You can see the information in one of your
batches that the arbitrator changed. By reviewing the differences, you may identify areas for
improvement in the future.
Social Media and Technology
With so many changes, new records, and new features, you may feel overwhelmed. To keep up with
FamilySearch there are several places you can go to stay up-to-date. You can now follow
FamilySearch on social media sites. Use these sites to find the latest information on Facebook,
Twitter and YouTube.
Blog
On the Blog you can keep up-to-date and find insights into the future and past of FamilySearch.
Tech Tips
Technology tips for genealogists and family historians are available in easy to understand articles.
FamilySearch YouTube
The newly updated FamilySearch YouTube channel gives viewers an informative, fun, and fascinating look at
several different aspects of genealogy through a growing number of videos in five playlists.
RootsTech Conference
FamilySearch sponsors RootTech. This is a three day conference where you can discover emerging
technologies and devices to improve your research. Learn from hands-on workshops and interactive
presentations as well as collaborate with technology creators to advance family history through technology.
What’s Coming Next?
• Multiple Event and Relationship Searching. In coming months, the basic search form will be
retired and replaced by an advanced form that is even simpler, but much more powerful. You
will be able to search on multiple relationship and event information to highly refine your search.
All your options will be visible and accessible with a single click.
• A Multiple Collection Search. The Browse All Collections page currently lets you see all the
collections available on the site and quickly filter down to the ones you want to search. However
it only allows you to search a single collection at a time. In the near future, we will allow you to
select multiple collections on this page as well as in the search form and the results filter. We
believe this will be a huge time saving for patrons and allow you to highly target your search to
just the collections of interest.
• More Matching Options (Exact Search, Close Search, and Missing Search). FamilySearch
will soon provide you with more options for deciding which matching requirements you want to
use. Shortly you will be able to specify Exact, Exact+Close or Exact+Close+Missing on a field
by field basis.
• A New and Improved Tree! The year 2012 is the year when FamilySearch released its new Tree to
the public. The Tree will be integrated with historical records, sources, and many other incredible
features.