#GiveThanks Day 2

Thought for Day 2: I am extremely grateful for the amazing technology we are blessed with today and how this technology has been applied to temple and family history work, namely in the form of FamilySearch.org. I remember almost two decades ago watching some faithful women pull up to a friend's house and haul at least one box of family history records into the house so they could do some work together. I also remember them handling 3.5" floppy disks and discussing usability and duplication issues related to the nascent family history computer program. THANK GOODNESS those days are gone! 😀 FamilySearch.org isn't perfect but it is lightyears ahead of the the time-consuming and duplicative ways the work used to be done. And continual improvements ensure that things just keep getting better. 

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