Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer

Robert Raymond

Robert Raymond is a deputy to FamilySearch Chief Genealogical Officer, David Rencher. He works to increase genealogical soundness of FamilySearch products. Robert is a frequent presenter at national, regional, and local conferences including NGS, FGS, RootsTech, NERGC, New York, BYU, and UGA. He served as a director of the National Genealogical Society from 2012 to 2018. For a decade he wrote (pseudonymically) a top ranked genealogy blog about Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, records, and methodology. He created a family history website where he published a collection of digitized genealogical records, histories, articles, and maps. Robert is a genealogical technologist who worked for more than 30 years in software engineering and has worked professionally in the genealogical industry since 2002. Before FamilySearch, he worked at Ancestry.com. Before that he helped found a storage technology company acquired by Symantec. He holds over a dozen technology patents and earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University where he was honored as a Kimball Scholar. He was a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.