Seek to Improve Yourselves - Elder Hales

[Hemidakota]

Deseret News | Seek to improve yourselves, Elder Hales tells BYU audience

[Connie]

Thanks for this! I especially liked the part about mothers. :)

[Mykdiver]

Thanks for that it was really good.

[justamere10]

I was in the audience when Elder Hales delivered that talk. As I recall he got quite emotional when he thought back to the time when Bishop Burton I think it was outlined to the Brethren what could be accomplished by the then just emerging concept of using computers for genealogical research.

Some of you too may have been involved with some of those gentle (perhaps impatient) persuasions to Church leaders to get going with that...

Another instructor at BYU Education Week last week stated that the granite vault storage facility holds (if I recall correctly) 18 times more data than does the entire Library of Congress. At today's pace in only 8 years ALL of the information from the granite vault will be digitized and online! (And in addition to that "terabytes" of new vital data is arriving in Salt Lake City every week from "an army" of volunteers who are digitizing records all over the world.)

Today in Utah it takes 16 steps to get a name to the temple. In some other states it takes only 4 steps. Those four steps take place in your own home! When scaling is completed and even larger computers are online, Utah and other high LDS density states will also have access to the 4 step inhome clearing of names for the temple.

Here's a link to what's about to happen in the exciting world of computers and family history:

FamilySearch Labs

Also try:

http://new.familysearch.org