Tag Archives: Tools & Tech: FamilySearch

FamilySearch has all sorts of genealogy-related materials digitized and available online. From records to books, there’s a lot to peruse. One section of their website is the FamilySearch Digital Library, which has oodles of digitized books. This is a great place to find all sorts […]

I have a weekly calendar entry that reminds me to check out the new records that have been added to the major genealogy websites. When I find something of interest, I investigate it further and if it’s worthwhile I add it to my locality guide(s). […]

I’m not sure how I missed this, but I just learned that FamilySearch now has a place for researchers to gather virtually to help one another. Simply called Groups, you can access this by logging in to the FamilySearch website, then under the Help menu, […]

About two hours ago, I blogged about a change to the FamilySearch/FHL catalog that was a little disappointing. It had to do with a new option to filter results by choosing “Online” or “Family History Center” (which with “Family History Library selected shows you everything […]

Update: This problem has been fixed! See FamilySearch/FHL Catalog: Ask & You Shall Receive? Searching the FamilySearch/FHL catalog earlier, I made an interesting discovery, and not a pleasant one, mainly because I thought I was losing my mind! I don’t know when this change happened, […]

If you’re like me, you anxiously await the weekly email from FamilySearch that lists all the new historical records added to their online collection. When FamilySearch recently announced the discontinuation of lending microfilms to Family History Centers, I caught mention that all films that had […]

Took a break from things a little bit ago and indexed a batch of Chicago church records for FamilySearch.  Moments after submitting my batch, I received an email indicating that I had reached a “significant and rare milestone” of 1,000 batches indexed.  I had no […]

If you have family that lived in South Dakota, and you haven’t already checked out the state censuses for 1905 to 1945, you must head over to FamilySearch and do so now! For each of these five censuses, each person is enumerated on their own […]