Jenny: nFS is an update of the old and error-filled FamilySearch.org site -- essentially the IGI and other user-submitted data attempting to create a single unified database of every individual in the world. This one is currently restricted to LDS members and will serve as something more akin to your genealogy software -- one entry for each individual, with many sources. Presumably the Person Identifier is meant to be a unique identifier for every individual in the system to enable people to more easily sync your database with their service.
FamilySearchLabs is a separate crowd-sourced effort to digitize and transcribe all of the microfilms in the possession of the LDS. This is basically the source list that will feed into nFS and personal research, and serves as a free alternative/complement to sites like Footnote and Ancestry.com, but because any one individual could have numerous records there won't be any person identifiers. Instead you should treat any sources you find here the same as you would treat online records at Ancestry -- multiple different source types at one repository. -Steve On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim/Support wrote >> >>I should have taken the opportunity to mention to view and search >>the webpage beta.familysearch.org. >> > Yes, I am aware of that site. I think I am accessing the same records > via > > http://search.labs/familysearch.org > > Are these records not a very small subset of what will eventually be > available to everyone on nFS? > > It's just the absence of a Person Identifer on the records I can > accessfrom the labs or beta sites that I am wondering about. > -- > Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
