Technology and Family History Work

I believe technology is a tool the Lord has blessed us with that enables us to accomplish the commandment to do family history work. There is so much work that needs to be done to find genealogical data for the entire human family that it would be impossible to finish before the end of the Millennium, so the Lord has inspired men to develop the technology that we have today. The use of computers has allowed members of the church to do genealogy work much more efficiently than ever before. Instead of spending hours reading through microfilms genealogists can search through thousands of records with the click of a mouse. The Internet allows people from all over the world to work collectively instead of duplicating their efforts. By providing these advances in technology the Lord is literally fulfilling the promise He made when He said, "the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them" (1 Nephi 3:7, The Book of Mormon).