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...
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 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...
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...
Experience RootsTech 2017
Tomorrow is the beginning of RootsTech 2017. It’s not too late to register. Learn more about Family Discovery Day on Saturday, February 11, 2017. RootsTech will be posting on Facebook and live tweeting. You can even join the live stream to participate from home!...
2017 Goals for Indexing
Have you set a personal goal for indexing names from FamilySearch? A few minutes a day can uncover names of many people waiting to receive temple ordinances. FamilySearch indexing lets you type names from old records into a database that people worldwide can use to...
Write Your Life Story in 2017: FamilySearch #52Stories Project Will Make Your Task Easier
Maybe your New Year’s resolution is to write your personal history to share with your family and leave for future generations. The task, however, can seem daunting. Where do you start? FamilySearch can help with its #52Stories project. Each week in 2017, FamilySearch,...
Worldwide Indexing Event 2016 #TheWorldsRecords
During 72 hours from July 15-17, help index the world’s historical records, making them freely searchable on the Internet, helping families worldwide find their ancestors. Help FamilySearch reach the goal of 72,000 volunteers to help make records accessible for...
Sharing Family Stories: Simple Activities for Children
The recent Church News article “Kids and the ties that bind” describes simple activities you can do with your children to help them learn about their family history. Here are a few easy ways that parents can integrate stories from their family history into...
How to Engage Youth in family History
Presenters at the recent RootsTech conference talked about various tools youth can use to participate in family history. Some of those ideas were summarized in the article “RootsTech 2016: Engaging youth and teens in family history.” Tool #1: Paper and Pen...Follow on social media