Planning Your Digital Afterlife: What Happens to Your Digital Information When You Die?
Article updated, August 11, 2025. In this increasingly digital age, much of our social and financial information lives in the cloud. Photos, social media accounts, financial accounts, Church records, and other digital files all have value. Since this digital...
Can You Keep Your Family History Name Cards After a Proxy Ordinance?
To perform a temple ordinance for a deceased family member, you print a family ordinance card at home and take it to the temple. Previously, these cards would be returned to you so you could use it to perform the next ordinance. In 2020, the Temple Department...
Family History Games: Wheel of Family Fortune and Geneopardy
Your family may enjoy playing these family history games from BYU’s Family History Technology Lab. These apps use information in FamilySearch’s Family Tree to create games your family can play together to learn more about your ancestors. Wheel of Family...
What Was Happening the Year I Was Born?
Visit FamilySearch’s All About Me page to find out what happened the year you were born. Learn about the top news stories that year, the top technology breakthroughs, and even the cost of a gallon of gas. The page will first show the year you were born, but you...
The World’s Largest Shared Family Tree
The free FamilySearch website is home to the world’s largest online family tree. Known as the FamilySearch Family Tree, this shared family tree is home to information about more than 1.2 billion ancestors, which has been contributed by millions of descendants. What’s...
FamilySearch Updates, March-April 2021
FamilySearch has the world’s largest online family tree and provides free family history experiences to millions of people. They are constantly working on updates and improvements to make it even better. See the following updates made to FamilySearch during March and...
FamilySearch Offers Page for Family History Beginners
Have you ever wanted to do family history but didn’t know where to start? FamilySearch recently launched a beginner-friendly page to help! The new Getting Started page provides a variety of simple family history activities and FamilySearch resources that both...
Why FamilySearch Indexing Matters
Editor’s Note (April 2025): FamilySearch Indexing has been replaced by new technology. Learn about new opportunities to help improve historical records. Every name you index has the potential to help others find their ancestors and help those ancestors receive...
FamilySearch Now Available in 30 Languages
FamilySearch is now available in 20 additional languages, making a total of 30 languages. FamilySearch is a free website for collaboratively building your family tree and making new family discoveries. With FamilySearch you can explore billions of images of historical...
How To Import Sources from Church History Catalog into FamilySearch’s Family Tree
The Church History Catalog has a new feature that lets you import historical sources into FamilySearch’s Family Tree. The Church History Catalog is an online resource where you can search the collections of the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The...
Minister through Temple and Family History
Helping someone with their family history is a powerful way to minister. Whether they are a Church member or not, anyone can find joy in learning more about where they came from. You don’t have to be an expert or do anything big. A page on the Church’s website...
Help Friends Discover Their Family History
Making connections with family past and present can bring joy, perspective, and inspiration. Show a friend how easy it is to discover, preserve, and share family memories. The Church provides resources to help you learn how to help others. All you need is the...
How to Track Your Contributions to the FamilySearch Family Tree
With the new My Contributions feature on the Family Tree app, you can keep track of the individual contributions that you have made to the Family Tree. The new feature is available on both the Apple iOS and Android versions of the app, but not online. The following is...
Different Family Tree Views Provide Perspective
When you are trying to make sense of family connections, seeing is believing. The FamilySearch Family Tree gives you four different ways to view pedigree charts. Each visual representation gives you a different perspective and may help you learn more about your...Follow on social media