Whats New at Family Search

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What is FamilySearch?

FamilySearch is the world's largest genealogyorganization.

FamilySearch has been actively gathering,

preserving and sharing records for over 100years.

FamilySearch has over 4,500 Family HistoryCenters in over 80 countries.

FamilySearch operates and maintains theFamilySearch.org website.


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What Can I Find at FamilySearch?

FamilySearch Portal

FamilySearch Indexing

Records

Family Trees

Community Trees

FamilySearch Wiki

Training

Tech Tips

Forums

Genealogy Software

Catalog of Resources

Scanned Books

Order Microfilm/fische

Directories of FHCs

And Much More!


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FamilySearch Portal

The Portal is available at all Family History

Centers.

Provides free access to a variety of resources.

Ancestry

World Vital Records

Fold3 (Footnote)

Heritage Quest

And more!


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FamilySearch Indexinghttps://indexing.familysearch.org

Volunteer indexing program for worldwide

records collection (>150,000 active volunteers

from 130 countries).

Indexing done on your home computer at

your own pace. Two people index each page.

>2.5 billion names online.

>150 million indexed records added each year.
https://indexing.familysearch.org/https://indexing.familysearch.org/https://indexing.familysearch.org/


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Indexed

Unindexed

Images


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WESTERHEIDE


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WESTERHEIDE

OHIO 1890 1920


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Online Film Orderinghttps://www.familysearch.org/films

Allows you to order genealogical resources

from the Family History Library.

Orders are delivered to your local Family

History Center for your use.
https://www.familysearch.org/filmshttps://www.familysearch.org/filmshttps://www.familysearch.org/films


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Family History Books (beta)http://books.familysearch.org

Collection of over 40,000 digitized genealogy

publications.

Each name is being added to a family tree.
http://books.familysearch.org/http://books.familysearch.org/http://books.familysearch.org/


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FamilySearch Family Tree (beta)

Trees are contributed by researchers.

Multiple opinions for the events can be

entered.

Opportunity for sources, evidence, analysis,

and discussions so multiple researchers can

work together.

Currently in limited beta release.

Will go public this year!


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FamilySearch Community Treeshttp://histfam.familysearch.org

Community Trees are lineage-linked

genealogies from specific locations and time

periods around the world.

Includes both written and oral genealogies.
http://histfam.familysearch.org/http://histfam.familysearch.org/http://histfam.familysearch.org/


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FamilySearch Traininghttps://www.familysearch.org/learn

Research Courses

over 250 training courses

covering a wide range of subjects from around the

world in various formats (audio, video & interactive

slides). Research Wiki free collection of family history

articles provided by family history enthusiasts from

around the world.

Discussion Forums
https://www.familysearch.org/learnhttps://www.familysearch.org/learn


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FamilySearch Research Wikihttps://wiki.familysearch.org

Guides researchers on where and how to find

information to aid their research.

Allows the researchers to contribute

knowledge to help others.

Open source, just like Wikipedia, but focused

on the genealogy community.

Nearly 70,000 articles. Adding 1,000 pages per

month.
https://www.familysearch.org/https://www.familysearch.org/https://www.familysearch.org/


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FamilySearch Tech Tipshttps://www.familysearch.org/techtips

Find answers to your tech questions.

Learn about new genealogy tools.
https://www.familysearch.org/techtipshttps://www.familysearch.org/techtipshttps://www.familysearch.org/techtips


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