{"id":29753,"date":"2018-03-13T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=29753"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:40:43","slug":"what-family-history-tools-do-you-want-to-see-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/what-family-history-tools-do-you-want-to-see-in-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"What Family History Tools Do You Want to See in the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#RootsTech 2018 was a time to see the cutting-edge new tools in family history and to think about what the future might hold.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29755\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/photo-0313-2018-crystal-ball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/photo-0313-2018-crystal-ball.png\" alt=\"Photo: crystal ball\" width=\"544\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/photo-0313-2018-crystal-ball.png 544w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/photo-0313-2018-crystal-ball-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: crystal ball. Source: Forbes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you were asked: \u201cWhat new family history tools would you like to see become standard in the next 10 years?\u201d how would you reply?<\/p>\n<p>Would you want to see DNA testing go global, common, and incorporated into online family tree services like Ancestry or FamilySearch?<\/p>\n<p>Would you want to see Facebook, Linked-In or Instagram automatically synced with online family tree sites so that all of those postings \u2013 complete with names; birth, marriage and death dates; relationships; and millions of family photos \u2013 are streamed live into online family trees in real time?<\/p>\n<p>Would you want to see an easy button where you could plug in any two people and see how you\u2019re both related? See how you\u2019re related to your neighbor, a popular author, your governor? The possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what family history online tools you\u2019d like to see in the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp speculating on what tools for family history research might be developed in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719],"class_list":["post-29753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/photo-0313-2018-feature-graphic-crystal-ball.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}