MyHeritage Surpasses 8 Billion Records on SuperSearch
MyHeritage has now surpassed 8 billion historical records on SuperSearch™, and has added millions of new records from new collections and updated existing ones. All the information is available in this blog post (check out the John Lennon birth index). ...
Find Early LDS Missionaries in Your Family Tree
A new collaboration from the Church History Department and FamilySearch can help you discover if there are any early LDS missionaries in your family tree. You can also see their mission journals, letters, reports, and photos. The experience is made up of two parts:...
FamilySearch Mobile Tree App
The FamilySearch Tree mobile app is a companion to FamilySearch Family Tree that puts the power of heritage in your hands. With it, you can easily attach photos, stories, and documents to add details and bring your family story to life. With the mobile app, you can:...
6 Steps to Digitizing Your Family Photos
See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” Do you have boxes of old photos in your closet? So, what do you do with all these old photos? Digitize them! Read the article “Six Steps to...
5 Reasons to Digitize Your Family Photos
See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” Have you been avoiding digitizing your old family photos because you feel overwhelmed? Sorting your photos into smaller piles can help you get...
Preserving Your Digital Memories
In today’s digital age, photos, videos, and other records are digital. In the past, we worried about paper photographs and home movie films fading over time. But today, the biggest threat is losing the digital bits and bytes that make up these precious files. My...
Mormon.org Pages About Family
Mormon.org has published some new articles about family, parenting, and family history. They are written especially to explain what the Church believes about the family, so they are great to share with your nonmember friends. What Is Family? Parenting Family History...
Preserving Electronic Family History Information
See a comprehensive guide in the article “How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records.” For many of us, the biggest threat to the safety of our family history information may not be papers yellowing with age or photos fading in the...
Importing Pictures from Facebook & Instagram to FamilySearch.org
A new feature on FamilySearch.org lets you share your Instagram and Facebook photos directly to FamilySearch. This new integration makes it is easy to choose which photos from your social networks you’d like to link to people in Family Tree and preserve for...
BillionGraves Million More in May Madness 2017
BillionGraves is sponsoring its 6th annual Million More in May Competition to add one million gravestone images and one million transcribed records to the BillionGraves database in the month of May. What is BillionGraves? BillionGraves is a free website to look up...
Share Your Life Story With Lifey.org
A Utah man has created a simple way to share your life story in video. Lifey helps you organize your thoughts and then record them on video. It’s an easy, free, browsable, and embeddable way to create a video autobiography. Browse by topic. Lifey videos are...
How to Opt Out of FamilyTreeNow
FamilyTreeNow.com bills itself as a free family tree and genealogy research site, but beware. Although you can create and save family tree charts, there are no biographies or family history stories. The site really is not much more than a people finder. It searches...
Changes to Family History Organization and Callings
Today, the Church announced that all family history callings at the area, stake, or ward level will now be called temple and family history consultants. The primary responsibility of all temple and family history consultants is to give personalized help to leaders and...
Can’t Attend RootsTech in Person? Participate Online!
If you can’t attend RootsTech in person, don’t worry, some of the best of RootsTech learning sessions, keynote addresses, and Innovator Showdown will be streamed live on RootsTech.org today, Friday, and Saturday. For a complete schedule of sessions that will be...Follow on social media