Add an African-American family portrait to your sign-in screen portraits
I have noticed the pictures of families on the sign-in page for familysearch.org. It is great that you show different ethnicities. However I've never seen an African-American family in these photos. Could you please include an African-American family's photo? And could it show up just as often as the other pictures do?
Thank you.
Maria Scott
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Another comment that has been made about these pictures is that they have now been around so long that the children illustrated must have grown-up by now!
For some reason, those responsible for maintaining / updating these sign-in pages have seen no need for any change. Hopefully, when they do finally get around to it, the pictures will represent the diversity of FamilySearch's patrons. And, surely the more people who can relate to the kind of images illustrated in these alternately displayed, sign-in screens, the better it will be for a achieving a wider range of FamilySearch participants and contributors.
My Family Tree branches have 95% England / 5% Scotland roots, but 90% of my neighbours are not even of European descent. I believe there should be every encouragement to ensure there is a much wider addition of content to the database - involving African, Asian and "far-flung corners" origins - rather than the current European / North American centred Family Tree.
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Interesting - I'm based in the USA, with mostly European ancestors, but I often see a sign-in portrait with a South American family. And, just now, I logged out and logged in again, to test, and the portrait is of an Oriental family.
I recall - maybe a year ago now - there was an announcement that the photos would be categorized to match the location from which the user was logging on.
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