FamilySearch
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FamilySearch is Discontinuing Microfilm Distribution
Jul 3
FamilySearch announced that they will be discontinuing its microfilm distribution services. They are currently in the process of digitizing microfilm. The last day for Family History Centers to order microfilm will be on August 31, 2017. Family History Centers will have the option to return microfilm that is available online or that is otherwi...
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Relatives Around Me – New Feature in Family Tree App
Jun 23
FamilySearch has added something new to their Family Tree app. It is called Relatives Around Me. The purpose of this new feature is to let you know if you are related to anyone in a group of people. It can also tell you how you are related to them. FamilySearch's Family Tree app is a mobile companion to FamilySearch. Use it to add family ph...
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How to Start Indexing Online for FamilySearch
Jun 7
Indexing is essential to making the world's records searchable. At FamilySearch, hundreds of thousands of volunteer indexers, from around the world, have participated in transcribing valuable genealogical records and making them easily searchable online. Here's how you can start indexing online for FamilySearch. The first thing a person who is ...
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The Gift of a Family Tree
May 17
Genealogists know that a person's family tree is an incredibly important piece of their family story. It can be difficult to put together, especially for people who are African-American. The records that are accessible tend to stop at around 1870. As such, one can imagine how special it was for a Congresswoman to receive her five-generation fami...
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FamilySearch Introduces Family Tree Lite
May 14
FamilySearch has introduced Family Tree Lite. It is a streamlined version of FamilySearch's Family Tree. This version is for users who need FamilySearch's Family Tree to be smaller. Why would FamilySearch take something users love and make a smaller, minimalistic, version of it? One reason has to do with bandwidth. People who use FamilySearc...
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FamilySearch has French Census Records
May 2
Genealogists who have ancestors who lived in France can benefit from using the resources at FamilySearch. They have added six new French Census collections. FamilySearch regularly updates existing collections of records by adding new ones to them. The French Census is different from the United States Census (which is carried out nationally). ...
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Add Your Recipe Story to FamilySearch
Apr 12
Your family probably has at least one recipe that has been handed down from one generation to the next. Perhaps the recipe was created by your grandmother, and your kids are old enough now for you to pass it down to them. Or, maybe the recipe goes back even farther in your family tree. FamilySearch would like for you to "Savor Your Family's Stor...
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An Easy Way to Import Photos to FamilySearch
Apr 4
When you want to share a family photo online, there are several different places you can put it. You probably pick your favorite form of social media and put the photo there. Or, maybe you post it on the social media website where the majority of your family members are. Now, you can import photos from Facebook and Instagram onto FamilySearch.org. ...
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Newly Updated Collection at FamilySearch – February 2017
Mar 3
FamilySearch frequently adds new records to its collections. There is a simple way find out what record collections have been newly updated. Check the FamilySearch Historical Record Collections list at the beginning of a new month. Updated or Added to in February 2017: February 28: Ghana, Accra, Marriages, 1863-2003 February 28: Texas, ...
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Share Your Family Recipe Story
Feb 15
Many families have a special recipe that is beloved by all and handed down from one generation to the next. That recipe is important not only because it tastes good but also because it brings up warm memories of the relative that created the recipe and the stories that connect to that food. FamilySearch wants you to share your family recipe story...