The Bridge Forum Meeting Link and Notes - November 2021

Heather R Jacobs

Here is The Bridge recording, and some of the notes. Thank you to those who were able to come and contribute.

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Objectives of The Bridge

• Grow in a way to influence more people
• Open communication channels to merge resources
• A place to collect best practices
• A place to create excitement in contributing to the family tree

Needs

1 - To have a symbiotic relationship with FamilySearch, various Operations (such as NAO's), BYU, etc.

• Need to find a way to get the results of our meetings back to FamilySearch so they can get ideas from us
• What Tools can FamilySearch provide for us to be able to help us extend our reach (and in turn their reach)

2 - To create more conversations with the public in our social media groups

• We need to be willing to share what we are doing, and to get others to talk

3 - Helpful to have FamilySearch create a simple tool that we can take to the public to make family history work/tree building less intimidating. Something that doesn’t require logging in. See example: http://connectedtempe.surge.sh/

Structure of the meeting

• 15 minutes – guest talks about their project
• 40 minutes – how can we adapt that project to our area?
• Guests can be us, or those we have invited
• The Bridge group will talk with each other in FB and FS community groups about ideas for guests and topics