We have entered the age of driverless cars, and of computers taking over our jobs in the workplace. So, could we be on the verge of automated genealogy? Will the computer search out all our genealogy, sending us notices, saying, Do you want to attach this to your family tree? Do you want to go to the temple for this person?
Are we entering the age of automated genealogy, when the computer does all the work, and we simply sign off on it?
What, then, of the endeavor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? It has long been considered an impossible task, to go back and connect the family trees of those now on earth, and trace all the names back to Adam and Eve. And, surely, it must still seem impossible. But, if artificial intelligence is employed, we might be somewhat closer to the goal.
What if the computer took every name ever entered in it? And, through automatic searches, connected the names in a genealogy tree? Of course, this would be limited by how much information is placed on the Internet. And, there is nowhere near enough names and information on the Internet to allow us to do genealogy all the way back to Adam and Eve, at least not for the vast majority of linage lines.
But, perhaps that could change. Perhaps the day will come when you simply scan page after page of names and records and data, and the computer sorts it all out. It takes the bad handwriting, and figures out what was meant to be written. It takes the names and sorts out where they came from and searches out birth records and grave records for the names, being every lick as accurate as a human could be.
(Slightly edited 11/20/17)
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