I work at FamilySearch. I can confirm the Medieval Unit has been phased out. I don't know the reason. You never know, it might be reincarnated again in the future. The databases they created are now under the "Genealogy" section in the "Search" tab on familysearch.org. The user experience with the databases is sub par. Nathan On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 1:57:34 PM UTC-6, D. Spencer Hines wrote: > "There was something similar but larger that was created by the now defunct > Medieval Genealogy unit at the Family History Library." > > Stewart Baldwin > ---------------------------------- > > Please explain why it became defunct -- i.e., who made the decision to shut > it down -- and what was the rationale? > > DSH > > Fortem Posce Animum Mortis Terrore Carentem > > Decimus Junius Juvenalis [Juvenal] (ca. 60 A.D. Aquino, Italy - ca. 127 > A.D.] Satire X

On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 1:21:06 PM UTC-7, nathan...@gmail.com wrote: > I work at FamilySearch. I can confirm the Medieval Unit has been phased out. I don't know the reason. You never know, it might be reincarnated again in the future. > > The databases they created are now under the "Genealogy" section in the "Search" tab on familysearch.org. The user experience with the databases is sub par. > > Nathan > "The user experience with the databases is sub par" - ??? What's the basis for this remark? And, if it's accurate, what is Family Search doing about it? Family Search (as it now calls itself) doesn't have a very good track with databases such as these (e.g., Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File).