{"id":9780,"date":"2023-11-19T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=9780"},"modified":"2023-11-19T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:12:16","slug":"familysearch-to-digitize-ottoman-empire-family-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/familysearch-to-digitize-ottoman-empire-family-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"FamilySearch to Digitize Ottoman Empire Family Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in the Church News, FamilySearch will be digitizing records of peoples whose history was entwined with the Ottoman Empire. The announcement was made at the International Congress on Archives, an event that takes place every four years and is organized by the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ica.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">International Council on Archives<\/a>, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2023 (Oct. 9-13).<\/p>\n<p>The Church News article is found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/global\/2023\/11\/3\/23944081\/familysearch-initiative-ottoman-empire-family-histories-ica-congress-united-arab-emirates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and you can also read the <a href=\"https:\/\/news-middleeast.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/familysearch-participates-in-the-largest-international-congress-on-archives-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A historical map of the Ottoman empire is shown below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ottomam-empire-map-42644_1280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ottomam-empire-map-42644_1280.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ottomam-empire-map-42644_1280-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ottomam-empire-map-42644_1280-1024x770.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ottomam-empire-map-42644_1280-768x577.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in the Church News, FamilySearch will be digitizing records of peoples whose history was entwined with the Ottoman Empire. The announcement was made at the International Congress on Archives, an event that takes place every four years and is organized by the International Council on Archives, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2023 (Oct.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-familysearch","category-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9786,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions\/9786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}