A few years ago, FamilySearch began formulating the idea of a "Family Discovery Center." This would be a place where people could come and discover their families. This brings us to the FamilySearch Blog or Blogs. Here is a link to a post about Discovery centers from 2014, before the first Discovery Center opened. The idea evolved into a series of large monitors, a recording studio for personal memories, and other activity oriented interactive displays. In 2015, the first Discovery Center was installed in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City, Utah as part of the Family History Center. Other Discovery Centers were planned and installed including a major installation on the first floor of the Salt Lake City Family History Library.
https://www.familysearch.org/discovery/schedule
You might note that these pages are somewhere on the
FamilySearch.org website. This is what you find when you begin digging.
New Family Discovery Centers are being installed in various locations, mostly in the western part of the United States. Here is a page from the
FamilySearch.org Research Wiki explaining about the Discovery Centers. Up-to-date information about times and locations does not seem to be readily available. The
Brigham Young University Family History Library is seldom mentioned or included because it is not a "FamilySearch Library," it is part of the Brigham Young University. Here is another link on the
ChurchofJesusChrist.org website about the discovery experience.
Now, back to the
activities. Each of the activities is a separate part of the
FamilySearch.org website. Because I am digging into the website, I find that these pages are not individually listed in the Site Map for the
FamilySearch.org website. These activities on the website are similar or the same as those in the Discovery Centers.
Now for another set of pages that are not easily located but this one happens to be listed on the site map although I have never found a link. Maybe someone can point one out. This is the Salt Lake City, Family History Library, the main library.
This is almost a separate website and should be easier to find. You can find it with a Google Search. I am going to reserve this part of the FamilySearch family of websites for a future post because I have a lot to say about the
Salt Lake City Family History Library. However, the link should get you started.
Here is another web page that is indirectly linked from the help menu as it is at the time of this post. What this means is that previously, this page was unlinked and harder to find.
This is an interactive map showing Family History Centers and Libraries around the world. You can zoom in to see an individual library or center. Here is the information when you click on the BYU Family History Library.
This is useful to me because I talk to people around the world and I can send them to this map so they can find a Family History Center near where they live.
Here are the previous posts in this ongoing series.
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