FamilySearch Tree App
The FamilySearch Tree app makes it easy to discover and document your own branches of the world’s family tree and preserve family memories such as photos, written stories, and audio recordings. With the mobile app, you can: Browse your family branches and see...
Free Family History Course: 12-Week Step-by-Step
A 12-week step-by-step course to guide you through FamilySearch and other helpful websites is now available for free. This course will get you up and unlocking the history of your ancestors in no time. It also includes a supportive community on their Facebook group,...
FamilySearch’s Strategy to Help Preserve the World’s Archives
Every year, the world loses priceless historical records, but one dedicated group of individuals is trying to do something about it. FamilySearch.org, the world’s largest genealogical organization, is saving historical documents that may be the only remaining witness...
20 Ways to Do Family History in 5 Minutes a Day
From the article “20 Ways to Do Family History in 5 Minutes a Day” on FamilySearch.org. If you love spending time on your family history but find yourself overwhelmed, know that you can make significant progress with just five minutes a day. 2018 RootsTech...
Learn about Mormon Pioneers
FamilySearch provides lots of ways to learn more about the Mormon pioneers. Below are several resources that provide great ways for your family to learn more about the Mormon pioneers. Pioneer History and Discovering Your Pioneer Heritage As a new country, the United...
Connect with Your Family: Past, Present, and Future
The following is from the article “Connect with Your Family: Past, Present, and Future” from the FamilySearch blog: Family history provides a powerful way to strengthen your family. Connect with your family’s past to build a legacy through fun and...
Relatives Around Me
Have you ever sat in a room full of people and wondered if or how you might be related to those around you? If not, you will now . . . Sorry. But, there is good news! Relatives Around Me, a new feature in the FamilySearch Family Tree app, can tell you the answer. How...
LDS FamilySearch Database to Include Same-Sex Relationships
The world’s largest genealogy organization is redesigning FamilySearch.org so it can store and provide records of same-sex families, according to the statement “Recording data on same-sex relationships” posted online yesterday. The goal of...
Family History on the Sabbath
The Sabbath day is a day of reflection, service, renewing of our covenants, and serving God and others. Prophets have always encouraged us to honor the commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy and improve our Sabbath day worship. In his April 2015 general conference...
Use Descendancy View to Find Cousins for Temple Work
This article was also published in Meridian Magazine. Finding names for the temple is now easier than ever by viewing your family tree from a different angle. Using the Descendancy view of Family Tree, you can see which of your cousins may still need to have temple...
9 Tips for Capturing Personal and Family Stories
From the FamilySearch blog: “The Art of Remembering: 9 Tips for Capturing Personal and Family Stories” Seventeen years after my Grandpa Bob passed away, my dad planned a family reunion at a park in northern Utah. Prior to the reunion, my dad invited his...
Missed RootsTech 2018? Watch it Online
If you weren’t able to attend RootsTech 2018, some of it is available to experience online. Watch online sessions of RootsTech 2018.
Watch Live Streaming of RootsTech Family Discovery Day, March 3, 2018
Find inspiration and help to get started with family history at the Family Discovery Day at RootsTech 2018. Attend in person or watch it streamed live on LDS.org on Saturday, March 3, 2018. President Dallin H. Oaks and his wife, Sister Kristen M. Oaks, will be the...
6 Ways to Participate in RootsTech 2018, Begins This Wednesday
RootsTech 2018 begins this Wednesday, February 28, 2018 with over 300 classes, keynote speakers, family events, and fun. Here are a 6 ways you can participate, be inspired, and get help with family history. If you’re attending in person: Register. Go to rootstech.org....Follow on social media