by Larry Richman | Dec 5, 2020
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...
by Larry Richman | Nov 9, 2020
If you have not considered indexing in a foreign language, you might be surprised to find that it’s easier than you think! One way to learn about where your ancestors came from, both geographically and historically, is to become familiar with the records for the place...
by Larry Richman | Oct 23, 2020
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...
by Larry Richman | Oct 20, 2020
Have you ever needed help with your own family history research or while helping someone else? The FamilySearch Help Center and Family Search Research Wiki are great tools to use when you need a hand. FamilySearch Help Center Family Search Research Wiki In addition,...
by Larry Richman | Jul 21, 2020
Here’s a great volunteer opportunity to help improve the place names that appear on FamilySearch. FamilySearch offers a simple tool online or on mobile phones where you can help standardize and correct names of places by matching them with a standard place that...
by Family Search | May 28, 2020
From the FamilySearch blog: Throughout our lives, we accumulate a lot of items—old journals, faded photos, treasured heirlooms, day-to-day documents. And in the wake of losing a loved one, it can be overwhelming to sift through all this information and try to preserve...
by Larry Richman | May 26, 2020
Can you identify your ancestors from their photos? FamilySearch offers a game to help you keep the memory of your ancestors alive. Click the link and FamilySearch will present you the pictures of 10 people from your Family Tree and let you guess the name of each...
by Larry Richman | Apr 15, 2020
FamilySearch has been holding dynamic livestreams on its social media (FamilySearch Facebook and FamilySearch Instagram). If you’ve missed any of the past events, you can catch up by watching them on the FamilySearch YouTube playlist. FamilySearch livestreams helps us...
by Larry Richman | Mar 1, 2020
Virtual Pedigree allows you to navigate your Family Tree with a new and revolutionary fluid interface. Simply click and drag to begin exploring ancestors and their descendants. It gives you hints and help as you explore your tree, and includes LDS Ordinance...
by Larry Richman | Feb 26, 2020
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...
by Family Search | Jan 28, 2020
From the FamilySearch Blog: Our goal at FamilySearch is not only to connect individual families, but to connect the human family. In order to accomplish that goal, we need everyone’s help. For this reason, FamilySearch Family Tree is a shared tree, which means that it...
by Larry Richman | Dec 19, 2019
FamilySearch now offers the ability to correct errors that have been made by people who index records. FamilySearch indexing is a volunteer transcription effort that makes valuable genealogical records freely searchable online. Since FamilySearch indexing began in...
by Larry Richman | Dec 15, 2019
When you add new members to your family, such as spouses, in-laws, stepparents, etc., these new additions can come with their own separate family trees. Connecting to the tree information for living family members on the FamilySearch Family Tree isn’t difficult—but it...
by Larry Richman | Dec 10, 2019
The FamilySearch Family Tree now provides the ability to document same-sex family relationships, including same-sex marriages and same-sex adoptions, because of their historical value as genealogical records. FamilySearch, one of the world’s largest collections...
by Family Search | Nov 13, 2019
It might be exciting to find your great-grandmother in FamilySearch Family Tree. But what about finding her four times—each record with a little different information? These multiple entries and records for the same individual are called duplicates. Duplicates happen...
