Developing Mobile Genealogy Apps with FamilySearch

FamilySearch is the largest source of genealogy data online. In a recent YouTube video, LockerGnome's Jake Ludington talks to Gordon Clarke of FamilySearch at OSCON about how developers can use the FamilySearch API to build mobile web applications that extend the usefulness of genealogy data and provide a rich experience for sharing data about ancestors.

Gordon described one new application using crowdsourcing to transcribe tombstone information of millions of deceased individuals. He also invited developers to create new applications, including some that FamilySearch never envisioned. Use of FamilySearch APIs is available free of charge.

You can watch the video at http://youtu.be/BsVUWIaU2w4 or by clicking on the image above.

NOTE: "API" is an abbreviation for "application programming interface," a method by which an application program accesses data or other programs, often even residing on other computers.

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