Portrait View in FamilySearch’s Family Tree
FamilySearch offers multiple views for organizing and presenting your genealogy: landscape, portrait, fan chart, descendancy, and first ancestor. Depending on your goals and interests, each view can provide you with a unique pathway for exploring your family tree....
FamilySearch Help and Learning
Need help with family history or genealogical research? The free site FamilySearch.org offers a large help section where you can search for online help or even request one-on-one help. Visit the FamilySearch help section. ...
FamilySearch Indexing Replaced by New Technology
FamilySearch is improving the technology and changing how we index family history records. The old FamilySearch indexing tool is being replaced with new technology that makes it easier and faster for people to discover their ancestors. Artificial intelligence (AI) has...
How to Merge Names in the FamilySearch Family Tree
FamilySearch has a new tool that will improve your experience with merging names in the collaborative FamilySearch Family Tree. Because merging names affects the names, dates, places, sources, and relationships for two profiles, reviewing and fixing merges can be...
Help With “Quick Name Review” on FamilySearch
Have a few minutes? Explore Quick Name Review, one of the Get Involved activities offered by FamilySearch. In this activity, you can quickly check first and last names and make sure they were indexed correctly. This indexing helps others find their ancestors. ...
FamilySearch 3-Star Record Hints for Experienced Researchers
3-star record hints is FamilySearch’s system to provide hints to more experienced researchers and genealogists. What Are Hints, and Why All the Stars? A hint is a possible match between a historical record and someone in the Family Tree—such as one of your...
FamilySearch Improvements Coming in 2025
In 2025, FamilySearch is planning to provide more free genealogy records and more fun family experiences. There will also be improvements in FamilySearch records, the FamilySearch website, and FamilySearch apps. The following is a quick summary of what to expect in...
FamilySearch 2024 Genealogy Highlights
The following is a FamilySearch news release: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—Join FamilySearch, the world’s largest nonprofit genealogy organization, in looking back at 2024 to recap some of its most notable highlights. FamilySearch celebrated its 130th anniversary as an...
Latter-day Saint FamilySearch Users Now Get Free Subscriptions to Storied
Latter-day Saint FamilySearch users can now get a free subscription to Storied to create fuller, richer accounts of their ancestors’ lives. Storied is an innovative platform that makes it easy for you to rediscover your family history and share it in a whole new...
FamilySearch Library Classes and Webinars
Each month, the FamilySearch Library offers free classes and webinars on various subjects. The webinars in September 2024 will focus on U.S. immigration research. Classes will share strategies on how to discover missing individuals in your family tree, effectively...
FamilySearch Offers Free Photo Collage Creator
FamilySearch now offers a Photo Collage Creator you can use to make collages of your family photos. Just drag and drop your photos onto expertly designed templates. You can then download the collage to your computer or share it with family and friends. You can upload...
Preview of FamilySearch Updates For 2024
Here are a few of the things that you can expect from FamilySearch in 2024: Digitization of millions more genealogical records in more than 75 countries. Improvements in computer-assisted indexing. Powerful full-text search capability in select record sets, by...
FamilySearch 2023 Year in Review
Explore this year-in-review of FamilySearch in 2023 and see the impact you and others have had on building the family tree worldwide. From FamilySearch
See How Your FamilySearch Efforts Have Helped Others
If you have ever helped review names or index historical records on FamilySearch, now you can actually know when someone benefits from your volunteer contributions. A new feature on the FamilySearch website called Your Impact reveals how your volunteer efforts shape...Follow on social media