Family History Report in LCR for Leaders
Leaders can access a family history report that shows information about family history activity in the ward or stake. Priesthood leaders, many members of stake and ward councils, and temple and family history consultants can access the report through Leader and Clerk...
FamilySearch Digital Records Replace Microfilm
FamilySearch has discontinued its microfilm circulation services because it now offers billions of the world’s historic records online digitally. For 80 years, FamilySearch created microfilms of birth, death, and other records around the world and offered a service...
Sweeten the Sabbath with Family History
The Sabbath can be one of the sweetest, most rewarding times to do family history. The article “Sweeten the Sabbath with Family History” in this month’s Ensign and Liahona magazines give some family history activities that are great for Sundays. For...
Free Access to MyHeritage’s 8 Billion Records
In celebration of MyHeritage’s recent milestone of surpassing 8 billion historical records on SuperSearch, they are making all their major census collections from the U.S., U.K. and Ireland, Canada, and Nordic countries free for one week! Starting today, through...
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). ...
Take a Name to the Temple
Take a Name is a mobile app that helps LDS Church members take names to the temple. It helps you find, reserve, and print family names so you can spend more time in the temple with your ancestors instead of outside searching for them. Find temple ready ancestors. The...
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...Follow on social media