Mormon Genealogy Database to Accommodate New Sorts of Families

[Jerome]

LDS Church's FamilySearch database to add same-sex families to Family Tree feature

SALT LAKE CITY — The world's largest genealogy organization is redesigning FamilySearch.org so the LDS Church-sponsored database can store and provide records of same-sex families.

The major overhaul to the website's system should be ready by 2019, according to a statement on the website updated in April. The statement said FamilySearch.org's goal is to capture accurate genealogy "that represents past, present and future families of the world."

"To support this goal," the release continued, "same-sex relationships, including same-sex parents and same-sex couples, will be provided in FamilySearch Family Tree. Several systems that surround Family Tree, such as tree and record searching, must be significantly redesigned to support same-sex relationships before Family Tree can release this capability."

 

[ehbowen]

LDS Church's FamilySearch database to add same-sex families to Family Tree feature

For some reason I don't think that the Book Of Life is going to be receiving the same kind of update....

 

[Deacon]

It shouldn't take a lot of time or space... the list of future generations will be rather short.

Rob