{"id":2616,"date":"2013-01-14T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T02:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2013-01-14T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T02:25:06","slug":"familysearch-increasing-camera-operations-by-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2013\/01\/14\/familysearch-increasing-camera-operations-by-60\/","title":{"rendered":"FamilySearch Increasing Camera Operations by 60%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldschurchnews.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Church News<\/b><\/a><\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/mormon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>the Church<\/b><\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/jesuschrist.lds.org\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Jesus Christ<\/b><\/a> of Latter-day Saints recently ran an article about record preservation missionaries manning cameras for <a href=\"http:\/\/FamilySearch.org\" target=\"_blank\"><b>FamilySearch<\/b><\/a>. (FamilySearch is wholly owned and operated by the Church.) Here\u2019s information and quotes from the article.<\/p>\n<p>FamilySearch has 200 teams in 45 countries capturing digital photographs of historical records, according to Paul Nauta, FamilySearch marketing communications manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilySearch plans to significantly expand its digital preservation efforts starting this year,\u201d he said. About 80 of the teams are missionary couples and FamilySearch hopes to increase that number to 200 this year and even more in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re now producing, online, about 400 million digital images a year,\u201d Nauta said. \u201cThe bulk of that, about 250 to 300 million images, is coming from vault conversion.\u201d As the conversion of microfilm in the FamilySearch vault tapers down, FamilySearch hopes to maintain the 400 million annual publication rate by increasing the number of camera teams in the field. About 80 million historic images came from the field last year and the number is expected to increase to about 100 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the article is a pitch to retired couples of the Church to volunteer as record preservation missionaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need volunteers to go out and help us now as we continue to gather new records,\u201d said Nauta. \u201cThey will handle priceless historical documents \u2014 in some cases older than the U.S. Declaration of Independence,\u201d he said. \u201cIn essence, they are helping preserve the literal heritage of a nation and the world for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecords preservation missionaries can serve for one to two years,\u201d he said. \u201cThey can serve locally or internationally and choose where they want to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church News of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently ran an article about record preservation missionaries manning cameras for FamilySearch. (FamilySearch is wholly owned and operated by the Church.) Here\u2019s information and quotes from the article. FamilySearch has 200 teams in 45 countries capturing digital photographs of historical records, according to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/2013\/01\/14\/familysearch-increasing-camera-operations-by-60\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}