Rosemary MacKillop
It is missing most countries where my ancestors came from so I am unable to do research.
Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada
Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada
Really needs a cursive reference sheet
This app is great! But I wish that it had the chart with the multiple different ways letters are written, like indexing online does.
I also hear that it doesn’t contribute to your family search account index counter, but I haven’t used it long enough to check if that’s true, though I am not too bothered by that.
I also hear that it doesn’t contribute to your family search account index counter, but I haven’t used it long enough to check if that’s true, though I am not too bothered by that.
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Easy to understand
When you first login it teaches you the basics of how to use to app. Although it doesn’t always have English documents, you can still do the other languages because you aren’t translating the document (all the words you need to understand are translated in your preferred language).
SO MUCH FUN
THIS HAS REPLACED MY SOCIAL MEDIA. In one month I almost quick indexed 1500 names. I feel so much more productive. It is also fascinating to look at all these documents. I am a young person and I love it. I have showed the other people in my Young Women class how to do it.
Meaningful! Needs improvement.
Feels like I’m doing something valuable with my free time! I also love that it shows the path of your contribution, like how you help index a name and someone attached it to a person and took that name to the temple, which temple, etc. So meaningful.
Improvements: I feel that each document zooms in too close to the name so you can’t even see the full name, making you pinch out to make sure you’re not missing a middle or first name when confirming. I also think there should be a way to flag that it’s an incorrect highlight and fix it, or marking that “Auckland Australia” is not a person without having it automatically skip to the next document because the rest of the document is a person, or mark that the computer skipped a first name and only highlighted the first and last name.
Hope that all makes sense and can lead to app improvements.
Improvements: I feel that each document zooms in too close to the name so you can’t even see the full name, making you pinch out to make sure you’re not missing a middle or first name when confirming. I also think there should be a way to flag that it’s an incorrect highlight and fix it, or marking that “Auckland Australia” is not a person without having it automatically skip to the next document because the rest of the document is a person, or mark that the computer skipped a first name and only highlighted the first and last name.
Hope that all makes sense and can lead to app improvements.
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Finally, simplicity
So many of my fellow church members still find family history boring and unappealing. Most of them don’t know this app even exists. They take the amount of work and resources required to make it, for granted.
From a temple and family history leader…THANK YOU for making this simple, easy to use app that helps us contribute to the foundation of family history work.
From a temple and family history leader…THANK YOU for making this simple, easy to use app that helps us contribute to the foundation of family history work.
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One minor thing
I absolutely love this app!! I just have a hard time because it won’t let me go back to change a name I’ve finished :/ but other than that definitely 5 stars!!!
Everyone can help, a little or a lot.
I help a little with family history with this app. I spend a few minutes every day reviewing names, maybe waiting in the car, or resting for a few minutes. I review 30 names a day, more on days that I can. The app keeps a total of each months names reviewed. It’s rewarding in a spiritual way, I feel blessings from it.
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Addicting, but Bad Bugs
I love the opportunity to help review names, and the convenience of being able to use my iPhone to help family history progress! I can review names when waiting in line at the store or when I have a few minutes to spare. Easy. There are several bugs in this app; but perhaps the worst is a newer bug that name swaps. When you click, “Incorrect Highlight” or hit the “Back” button, the contents of the text box gets stuck on the last name you reported as “Incorrect Highlight”, or approved as a “Match”. This can be corrected by clicking “Unsure”, but it took some experimenting to figure out.
A glitch that has been a problem for awhile is the thermometer/counter, which doesn’t work regularly once you get past about 300k names. I have been stuck at under 400K for several months, and easily done 2 million or more names.
Please provide an update to this app. You’ve started such a wonderful thing. Thank you!
A glitch that has been a problem for awhile is the thermometer/counter, which doesn’t work regularly once you get past about 300k names. I have been stuck at under 400K for several months, and easily done 2 million or more names.
Please provide an update to this app. You’ve started such a wonderful thing. Thank you!
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Beautifully Simplistic
In the first five minutes after downloading the app, I was able to match 30 names. The app is very well designed. I believe just about anyone of any age can regularly use this app to provide a great service in digitizing the names of our ancestors.
The technology’s (likely AI models) ability to identify and suggest the names that match the written names is simply impressive.
I’ll be using this app to do Family History work, knowing it is helping generations, past, present and future.
The technology’s (likely AI models) ability to identify and suggest the names that match the written names is simply impressive.
I’ll be using this app to do Family History work, knowing it is helping generations, past, present and future.
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