Guide to FamilySearch

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In this Users Guide to FamilySearch, we’ll talk about some tricks when using FamilySearch. Here I share my top 5 best practices when using FamilySearch.
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0:00 Intro
0:48 Is Family Search Free? About Family Search
2:26 #1 The Fan Chart
3:24 Changing colors and categories on the Fan Chart
4:17 Research Helps and Record Hints on the Fan Chart
4:56 The Descendancy Chart
6:15 #2 Where do I find…? Using the Research Wiki
6:58 Using Wiki Topics
8:06 Vital Records on the Research Wiki
9:33 #3 Records, Records, Records!
10:05 Option 1: Searching for Records on FamilySearch
11:27 Option 2: Using the Wiki
13:04 Searching Records on the Wiki
13:58 #4 Follow your Ancestors
14:40 The Following tab
16:12 #5 Searching Genealogies
16:40 Can I upload GEDOM to Familysearch?
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19:06 Outro
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I am a fanatic for genealogy, family history and DNA to research my American ancestors . My mission is to create the best free genealogy videos and webinars on KZfaq. I teach the genealogy research skills while building my family tree and studying family origins. I am a professional genealogist; I teach research skills and records research. The best videos on “Genealogy TV” (KZfaq) are about learning research notes, logs, staying organized, genetic genealogy, finding missing ancestors, and where to find family history records. Learn genealogy for free and how to research on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, MyHeritage.com, FindMyPast.com, FamilyTreeDNA, AncestryDNA, genealogical and historical societies and many more.
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@filmgal2009 3 жыл бұрын

One thing I have found that helps me working on the collaborative tree is, I make notes in the notes section AND I put things in the Life Sketch section. Not necessarily notes, but for example if I know someone died as an infant or as a child, I will put that in the LifeSketch section because it's right on the main person view and people can see it in front of their face. It helps a lot with people changing things or not changing them. If I make a note that the person died as a child, they won't try to attach a spouse or kids to them that don't exist, etc. I also add the same note in the notes section. I think if people get in the habit of clicking on the collaborate tab in the person view and writing real notes about the person and why you think the relationships are true and if others get in the habit of reading those notes, there would be a lot less erroneous changes on that website. I do take the time to make corrections and add notes because I feel that it's important and I want people to have the correct info. If enough of us did that, the main tree would likely be more accurate and useful to everyone. I do also love FS for the records though.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Good tips Tammy. I like it.

@ameliafroehlich2577 3 жыл бұрын

I use FS just for records now since people can change things or delete them. People have messed things up that I've put in. The only way I would do a tree now in FS is if I don't put a death date in since living people don't show up so no one else can change anything. What excited me recently is that I found that FS is putting in marriage and birth records for Marlborough, MA, my father's hometown! I was so excited!!

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. I use FS mostly for research.

@mamabear52 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, my 1st time in the LDS library in Los Angeles, CA was in 1987, even though I have used the online site I have never taken a "class" for it. I learned a lot, going to review all of your videos, you are a treasure

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Thanks for the nice compliment.

@marizanatindim8577 8 ай бұрын

Definitely this is a great video to refresh previous knowledge. Thanks a lot for having this video. This will surely help me going through again of my family search.

@GenealogyTV 8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@douglasw9624 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and learned some new things. Originally I was put off by FS because unlike my main program, there are many mistakes in the previously entered lineages. However after a while I realized this was a good opportunity to put out corrections by using the collaboration and memory features. For example, you can place notes of why you think a lineage is wrong and what is more likely to be correct. The fan chart was new to me and I like it a lot.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. It’s always good to keep an open mind about all the tools available.

@cindycarrasco2383 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video as usual. You definitely given me things to think about when comes to Family Search

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad! Thanks!

@lindaeasley5606 Жыл бұрын

Family Search is a great genealogical guide. The best aspects about it is in records search- free access to military registration cards , as well as marriage and census records The census records helped me find out alot about the lives of my parents' families in the 20th century. Particularly in the 1940 and 1950 census records

@grahamogden8749 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as usual - always full of useful tips.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@debbiekjohnson2568 3 жыл бұрын

I use family tree all the time. I have learned some really interesting tips today! 😊 Thank you very much for everything you do

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you to say. Thanks.

@darlenesye1609 3 жыл бұрын

I Really enjoyed this one. I use Family Search All The Time and didn't know of some of thses features. I like the dark as well . I just checked, a few suggestions, several record hints that are already done, some that still need to be done but No Data Problems. YAY!

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Yes I like dark mode too, it helps the eye strain.

@swbccs 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Connie. It was great to speak with you today. You've done a great job with genealogytv. I am impressed but not surprised.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You Steve. Good talking to you too. Welcome to Genealogy TV.

@Isleskye 3 жыл бұрын

This was quite good Connie. Thanks!

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@esterherschkovich6499 3 жыл бұрын

Always interesting..Thank you 🌸🌸

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

@carolbianchi7852 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you mentioned searching and explaining the Genealogy section. I found one (archived) in Ancestry once that was no help at all, but this one sounds promising. Thanks so much! I’m gonna check it out.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

You never know what you’ll find.

@carolbianchi7852 2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV treasure? Chocolate? Both?? 😂. Guess THATS asking too much. 😂 😂

@bGlennjamin 11 ай бұрын

I learned a lot. Thank you.

@GenealogyTV 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@brendac6322 2 жыл бұрын

I love Family Search, I paid for Ancestry for years... some how I came across Family Search and found my Grandfathers side of the family that was not Ancestry at that time. I had a Grand Uncle that was a member of the church and he had my Grandfather and my grandmother in his family tree and I had some of their siblings names so that I is how I linked them together :)

@LindaSchreiber 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an old-timer, but I learned some things here! Thanks! I hadn't been paying enough attention to the navigation ease in the fan chart, and in some other areas. Hate wasting time doing things the hard way ;) Also, I appreciated the way you mentioned that closest in, geographically, was not necessarily the best way. Depends on what jurisdiction the records are in. Like James Tanner's "pancake stack" analogy.

@LindaSchreiber 3 жыл бұрын

The add a label thing is very cool! I'll have to work that hard, I think.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Love your comments. "Hate wasting time doing things the hard way ;)" Me too! Thus my tag line "Here to help you go further, faster, and factually with your family history research."

@kathywiseman7944 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget if ancestors lived until at least the 1950's that because of social security you can sometimes find revised birth certificates that will go back before the dates that states started issuing them.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Yes and those delayed birth certificates often have a ton of info. Delayed birth certificates usually needed statements from three different sources saying they knew of a persons age and birth. Sometimes that is family or school teachers, etc.

@thenavigator25 3 жыл бұрын

I'm over 19 thousand people in my family tree and been doing Genealogy for 5 years! Climbing towards 20k and has to be more! 😊

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. When do you sleep?

@hurleyrosa 3 жыл бұрын

Connie, have your used the search images function, and your thoughts. Thanks. I appreciate your videos

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Not much... but I'll look at it again.

@kathywiseman7944 3 жыл бұрын

They have also been adding images of photos and records in order to speed up the release of record sets that are sitting in their vault without spending time indexing.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Thanks.

@FamilyHistoryFanatics 2 жыл бұрын

FamilySearch has had the digitizing and indexing programs running simultaneously without favoring one over the other in terms of where to direct volunteers. Indexing is continually available for anyone, any time. I wish more people would participate in the program. I've struggled to get my genealogy society to actively participate.

@helenjzkkillick4097 3 жыл бұрын

Up until recently I was just using Ancestry but got recommended to Family Search. Ive had some jaw dropping ancestors show up which made me sceptical. Listening to you though I’m now feeling better because the other people building these webs of ancestry supposedly don’t have an ulterior motive. And if something was just plain wrong then surely someone else would correct them. Do you agree? I’m just trying to come up with some of the amazing way back ancestors that Ive come up with. And it would be wonderful if it’s correct. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Thanks Connie.

@helenjzkkillick4097 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry - typo’s - I need to read before posting....

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

You and me both. Since FamilySearch is 100% volunteer people like you, it’s up to the community to fix those mistakes. So that somebody might be you. I have several branches of the family tree that no one is working on and the information that is up there may have been put up there by somebody years ago and didn’t know any better. They just imported stuff thinking it was correct or assuming it was correct.

@sarahhughes732 3 жыл бұрын

Don't count in things being correct. Since anyone and everyone can add information, it has been my experience that very little is accurate. I used to use family search and correct my tree each time I worked in it and then I found myself doing nothing but corrections and I couldn't keep up or so any searches. I hope others have better luck than I have. I stopped doing any research for a long time because I was so disheartened by the mess that was made of my line.

@nickmiller76 3 жыл бұрын

I would never put a family tree on a site which allowed other people to make changes to it. Not after having seen the abysmally poor standard of a lot of the 'research' work that's gone into so many of the public trees on 'Ancestry'.

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Understood. I do love FS for the research tools.

@b.a.jordan1857 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t even bother with the crowd sourced tree-I quite literally never even visit that part of the site, but the RECORDS on FamilySearch are amazing. I can’t tell from your comment if you primarily think of FamilySearch as a tree site, because many people do; however, it is so much more than that. I keep my tree on Ancestry where I can control it, but sometimes I spend more time researching on FamilySearch than I do on Ancestry, depending on what I’m researching.

@charleshill6364 3 жыл бұрын

love the Cartoons. What is the most important record to have for a person? Birth, Death, Baptism, or Will? COA in England told me to look for the Will! What is your thought?

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

The primary documents with primary evidence. They are usually original records with information given by the person themselves. For example, a birth document often has information given by the mother, who gave birth... so she would know better than anyone....as opposed to a death record that where the information is given by a secondary person and is considered a derivative source. Often in a death record, the odds of errors are greater because it is give by a family, church, funeral home, or other person who is not the primary source or might be distraught and is not thinking clearly. The primary source in a death certificate is dead and could not provide the primary evidence. Make sense?

@charleshill6364 2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV I agree! He was saying with a Will it would be in the court system on who the children were. I had found a birth certificate born in Northumberland, England Jan. 1615, and Baptism on July 28, 1615, St. Mary Magdalene in Taunton, Somerset, England. Also that my family had land thru-out England! Found this out in a book published in 1868. Robert F. his father was buried in Somerset 1657. Thank you!

@saundrasterling9324 2 жыл бұрын

I have been doing this for a while. Most of my infor is on paper but in the past, I had started to load my info into a laptop using The Family Tree. And now that laptop is so old and heavy that I began to load my info into an updated laptop using the Ancestry program. Should we be using multiple programs or just stick to one or two different programs? Saundra.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Stick with one primary tree online. That way your information is secure off your computer. You can sync it to a software program like Family Tree Maker if you want a copy on your computer, but it is not necessary these days. As for your digitized documents, I recommend having a back up on a cloud server. It could be as simple as Google Docs or DropBox.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Use the other services for research. If you want to put part of your tree on the other services for the areas you are research (to get the hints), that's what I do.

@church.farm.plants2607 Жыл бұрын

Can you make a video about how to research a Norwegian Military Veteran ? My Great - Grandfather Gilbert Strand served in the Norwegian Army, he was born in Hadeland, Oppland fylke, Norway. I’m trying to locate his military records in Norway. His farm name was Strandeeiet, and now it’s renamed to Strand, Gran,Oppland, Norway the farm is located in Gran. He married my great grandmother Gudbjør Olson Strand in 1892. There is a family story that my dad heard from my paternal grandmother ( Grandma ), that Gilbert was in WWI. I would like to learn and find out all the information that I can on him. As well in the 1910 United States Federal Census: it list his immigration year as 1906 but I went to the Norwegian Digital Archives and found a immigration record that stated in 1905. He left the Norwegian port of Oslo, in Norwegian immigration records from Kristiania 1871-1930 records. Thanks Cody

@GenealogyTV Жыл бұрын

Norwegian military is a little narrow focused for the general audience. However, there is a great resource on FamilySearch here. www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Norway_Military_Records Go down to the military history section. I don't see anything for WWI. If he was in WWI, could he have fought for a different country? This is just a quick observation on my part, do some research into the history of Norway's involvement in WWI, if any.

@mdaley4390 2 жыл бұрын

What's the easiest way to get myself back to the center of the fan chart?

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

There is a little Home button that looks like a house in the upper left corner. Click that and if you are set as the home person on your account, then you should pop back into the center of the fan chart.

@dianneklinski2543 2 жыл бұрын

How would I find a marriage record for Ellis Island?

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

A marriage record on Ellis Island? Ellis Island was an immigration port. Did they do marriages there too? Here is an episode I did about Ellis Island Immigrant Records and History kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qrOTfcpnv6mlqas.html

@michaelmason2128 2 жыл бұрын

Question ❓ I have been researching on Family Search. I by accident entered the wrong Wedding date of my parents. My dad is deceased and mom is living. I put the date year as 1932 and it's actually 1962. How can I correct the year. It's showing as a data error.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

You can edit any information. You just have to show your source. You could even say from personal knowledge.

@dianewebb8461 2 жыл бұрын

What about family that just stops in the 4th generation

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Well I guess that’s more more research needs to be done. Keep digging, you’ll find it.

@brendac6322 2 жыл бұрын

I have one of those too.... Connie has a video about re reading old notes / documents again... that is my plan as it seems my family 3 Great Grand parents back just fell from the sky.

@lbfaith 2 жыл бұрын

How could we find if a couple was in a common law marriage?

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

That might be hard if they never married. If they were African American (depending on the era) they might be in the cohabitation records.

@wandagreer9144 2 жыл бұрын

How to find those who were cremated and have no burial records?

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Well here are some ideas, check with the cemetery who did the cremation. They have records, if you have not looked there already. Look for obituaries in newspapers, death records at the county level, Social Security Death Index, Find A Grave or Billion Graves might have a memorial even without a plot, vanity books, Google them, sometimes you'll find stuff just from a Google search. Look at Google books, JSTOR, look at local genealogical & historical societies, libraries. It helps if you know a death date.

@tugaroocrab Жыл бұрын

I’ve worked on my family tree for twenty years. A lot of what is on Family Search is wrong.

@marlinpruett8343 2 жыл бұрын

I have Ancestry for 3 years, I am not to renew, Just cost to much, I can get the same thing from other at much better price

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. You need to do what works for you.

@Kolov_star 2 жыл бұрын

Que lata que no estén los subtitulos en castellano

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Lo siento, no hablo español

@Kolov_star 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Please tell me the Spanish Family Search pages that you are familiar with.

@Patriciasteele-ih8hd Жыл бұрын

I will like to find my grandfather Thomas oneale sister st Lucy barbados

@lightbeing3955 2 жыл бұрын

It's very disconcerting having 1500 kings and queens as your great grandparents one day and remove one name and it goes below 1000 and you don't know who will go next. It's fun, though.

@GenealogyTV 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... you need to verify each connection for each ancestor going back to all of them. I would not believe any connection to anyone without verifying them first.

@FamilyHistoryFanatics 2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV Well said Connie. My royal lines come and go because much of the research that far back on FamilySearch is very unreliable. Additionally, as I prove or disprove folks between myself and those distant relatives, one change can later my entire family lines. However, as you said, verifying each connection helps me have greater confidence that however is on my tree really is my ancestor.

@sarahhughes732 3 жыл бұрын

I HATE the collaborative tree. My family line is beyond fixing at this point because so many keep changing correct information. There's even someone who keeps changing MY PARENTS information despite repeated requests to stop and noting that I am their daughter and citing sources that I personally have in my possession. I love that people can't make information private and refuse to share, but I won't even look at the tree anymore. It would take me endless hours to correct it, so I gave up and stay with ancestry where no one can add information to my tree but me

@GenealogyTV 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I keep a tree on Ancestry for the same reason. I use the FS for records, research, resources and clues in the tree, but I don't waste my energy on trying to fix anything. I do find it to be a great resource for clues and records though.