:"Stories That Bring Us Together" Booklet - Now just 50 cents

The "My Family Booklet" now just 50 cents and -
Improvements to"My Family Booklet Capture Tool"

By Steve Anderson of FamilySearch - November 7, 2014

Effective immediately, prices for the popular family history booklet, My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together, have been reduced in many countries. For example in the United States, the cost of the booklet is now 50 cents. Check lds.org/store to find pricing in your country.
This booklet is . . .

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currently available in 40 languages. It has been a popular tool for helping people start their own personal family history. It allows them to gather into one place, stories, photos and important information about their family members and ancestors. More importantly it facilitates memories of living relatives about deceased ancestors.

A completed booklet can be taken to the Family History Library or one of the Church’s thousands of family history centers located worldwide, or simply to a friend or relative who has the necessary Internet access. Using a help feature on FamilySearch.org, the information is entered into the FamilySearch website. 
  
To order copies of this booklet, go online to the lds.org/store website and check out the new prices. Use this site to order copies of the My Family: Stories that Bring Us Together for your ward or for your own personal use.  

Read about "My Family Booklet" from the Church News.

New and Improved

 "My Family Booklet Capture Tool" . . .

1.  Speed and Flow. Improvements have been made so that the booklet capture tool now works faster. The load time and the time it takes to export information to the tree have been rewritten to make it a faster and better experience for the user.

2. Usability. We’ve responded to a number of concerns that were raised after we first released the booklet capture tool. We’ve rewritten the children and sibling pages to be easier to use. We’ve included field specific help that guides the user through the process of creating a digital record with the tool. It explains how the information from the booklet pulled from the tree and how new information is added to the tree.

3. Mass Copy. The user now has the option to copy all information from the tree in a single action. This allows users with significant tree information to leverage that information all at once and to focus their booklet experience on photos, stories, and adding new people.

4. Responsive Design - We've ensured that all of the pages in the booklet capture tool will display and function properly on mobile devices (both tablets and smart phones). This will extend the usefulness of the booklet capture tool to many users internationally who access the internet via mobile.

5. PDF Output. Users will be able to export their online booklet to a PF+DF format that can be printed or shared with others.

5. Additional Languages. The booklet capture tool will be offered through the language picker (and through browser detection) in the following additional languages:

• Armenian
  
• Dutch
  
• Fijian
  
• Hungarian
  
• Khmer
  
• Mongolian
  

• Swedish
  
• Samoan
  
• Thai
  
• Tongan
  
• Ukrainian
  

This will help users who speak the above languages to have a better experience transferring their information from their printed booklet (already in their language) to an online experience that matches the printed experience.