FamilySearch Participates in America250 Celebration
FamilySearch International has announced its collaboration with America250, the official celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, with the release of a new web page and an invitation to “discover your family’s...
FamilySearch Plans For 2026
FamilySearch has revealed some of its plans in 2026 to help you make more family connections worldwide. Upcoming experiences will use emerging technologies to provide increased access to genealogical records, expand FamilySearch’s global Family Tree, and enhance...
FamilySearch 2025 Highlights
FamilySearch shared its most notable highlights in this 2025 year-in-review. The FamilySearch website received more than 297 million visits from around the world in 2025. Patrons frequented FamilySearch’s growing record collections, interactive discovery...
FamilySearch’s RootsTech 2026 Registration Is Now Open
Registration for RootsTech 2026, the world’s largest family discovery event, is now open. The event will be held March 5–7, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online at RootsTech.org. Select content will be available in multiple languages. Register now for the...
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...Follow on social media