Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction 2025
The annual Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction will be available to watch on ChurchofJesusChrist.org and the Gospel Library app beginning March 6, 2025. Elder Neil L. Andersen, Elder Patrick Kearon, and other General Authorities and General Officers, will...
RootsTech and Family Discovery Day 2025
RootsTech 2025 will take place March 6–8, 2025. This global family discovery celebration is held both in person at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online, making it possible for people around the world to join. RootsTech offers a unique...
How to Digitize Old Photographs, Movies, Videos, Family Records
Your paper photos and slides are fading over time. Your videocassettes are degrading and becoming fuzzy. What if your home is flooded or the box of memories is lost? Even digital records on CDs or computer floppy disks will degrade over time. Do you even still have a...
Registration Now Open For RootsTech 2025
Registration is now open for RootsTech 2025. RootsTech, hosted by FamilySearch, is the world’s largest family history conference. You can attend in person or online March 6–8, 2025. Whether you are a seasoned genealogist or just beginning your family discovery...
Genealogy For Beginners
Watch videos from RootsTech on demand to learn the fundamentals of genealogy around the world! You can find classes covering a variety of countries or skills you need depending on your experience with family history.
FamilySearch Library Classes and Webinars
Each month, the FamilySearch Library offers free classes and webinars on various subjects. The webinars in September 2024 will focus on U.S. immigration research. Classes will share strategies on how to discover missing individuals in your family tree, effectively...
“Saints by Sea” Database Includes Ocean Journeys of Latter-day Saint Pioneers
The “Saints by Sea” database provides information about about all known Latter-day Saint immigrant voyages by sea, including names of passengers and first-hand accounts. Between 1840 and 1930, tens of thousands of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
Which Famous Person Shares Your Personality?
Discover your celebrity soulmate with FamilySearch’s new Personality Match Quiz. Take a quick quiz, answer a few simple questions, and unveil which renowned personality matches you best.
See Which Cemeteries Your Relatives Are In
FamilySearch lets you see the cemeteries where your relatives are buried. You can see information about their lives, like when they were born and died, and even click to see the headstone. This Memorial Day, as you visit a cemetery, go to...
10 Million Names Project
Participate in the 10 Million Names Project, a collaboration with American Ancestors, FamilySearch, and others to compile pre-1870 documents and recover the identities of 10 million individuals of African descent who were enslaved in America between 1500 and 1865....
Family Name Assist Gathers Information on Deceased Family Members With No Research Needed
A new feature in Leader and Clerk Resources (LCR) allows Church leaders to assist members in gathering information on deceased family members to do proxy baptisms and confirmations in the temple. Family Name Assist requires no family history research, and it creates...
FamilySearch Offers Free Photo Collage Creator
FamilySearch now offers a Photo Collage Creator you can use to make collages of your family photos. Just drag and drop your photos onto expertly designed templates. You can then download the collage to your computer or share it with family and friends. You can upload...
Invitation to Join RootsTech 2024
RootsTech 2024 will be held February 29–March 2, 2024. This is the Church’s annual family history conference and it will be both in person in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online so everyone may participate. Below are key invitations to attend: Family Discovery Day The...
Preview of FamilySearch Updates For 2024
Here are a few of the things that you can expect from FamilySearch in 2024: Digitization of millions more genealogical records in more than 75 countries. Improvements in computer-assisted indexing. Powerful full-text search capability in select record sets, by...Follow on social media