Full-Text Search
A small FamilySearch team completed a hack-a-thon challenge and built a Full-Text prototype with the ability to scan all text on any record or image. This prototype was found on the web by avid genealogists and spread rapidly by word of mouth, because they were able to find ancestors and loved ones much more quickly. I was asked to give the prototype a new updated design and features in preparation for the upcoming 2024 RootsTech presentation in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers.
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Though the tool became popular and meaningful to many users, the biggest pain-point was the tool looked like this below, (a bare-bone skeleton of a website).
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Now with a new powerful design that includes a search by place option, an easy to use search bar that gives the advances users the ability to use boolean searching symbols.
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The search results are rapid and efficient, but also include the ability to narrow down new filters by location, dates, record types and more. A game changer is coming to FamilySearch and I'm ecstatic to be a part of it!
