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This article was nominated for deletion on 16 November 2006. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Tone

This article needs to have the "love" removed from it in order to make it more encyclopedic. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 02:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "New FamilySearch.org": names, status, etc.

Officially, the name of the new product currently under development is "New FamilySearch.org", not "FamilySearch.org v2".

The engineering teams are working on "New FamilySearch.org version 0.9" which has a limited set of features, and will be available to members of the church only. It will be rolled out to the worldwide membership gradually over the space of a few years. There is currently no estimated release date, but as of now, a second beta release is in preparation.

Additional teams are also currently working on New FamilySearch.org version 1.0, which will be released to the public. Wadsworth 19:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose

Is it worth noting within the article (or perhaps even in the intro, which is rather short at the moment) the reason why the Church of Latter-Day Saints is so interested in collecting, indexing and providing all of this genealogical data? It is mentioned at one point in the section describing the new website that "The ultimate goal of this effort is to document the complete descendancy of Adam and Eve, or as much as can be done", although that sounds more like an internal description of the goal than an encyclopedic explanation (after all, it takes for granted that Adam and Eve were real people and the ancestors of everyone. I think I have some idea about why genealogy is important to the religion, but am not certain of my ability to write it in a verifiable way. Any thoughts? Cuffeparade 13:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it is relevant here; perhaps a link to whatever article discusses geneology within the LDS Church would make more sense. Eran of Arcadia 20:22, 27 June 2007 (UTC)