Relative Finder is a New App for Facebook

BYU computer science students have developed a new app for Facebook called Relative Finder. This app downloads your family tree from New FamilySearch and then combs it for ancestors you have in common with famous people or your facebook friends who have also installed the app.

This is a real fun app to use and it helps you to do your family history at the same time. It can also become a bit addictive.

On another note, Peggy Sorenson has come up with a neat way to use Google Translate which is a free Google app. She has a relative in Sweden who wants to correspond with her but only speaks Swedish and Peggy speaks English. Peggy writes a letter in English and then uses Google Translate to translate the letter into Swedish. When she gets a letter from her relative in Swedish she uses Google Translate to change the letter into English.

When we think about this idea for a minute, we can come up with many ways to use it to do research in family history. For example, if we are looking at records in German or Spanish for example, we can type the record into Google Translate to get the text into English.