Five Things Not to Overlook on FamilySearch
by Sister Jeanne Peugh, Director
WIKI – You can find more than 88,000 different research articles on a variety of topics. You can search by counties or countries, and the results let you know what is available and when records started, such as; birth, death, marriages, etc. It gives you information from around the world. In the general research topics, searching for a particular time frame could point you in the direction of looking for parish records over civil records for that time.
Family Search/Family Tree – The first benefit is connecting with relatives. When information is added, it gives you the link for who attached it. I have contacted several second cousins because either they have added something, or I have added something, and we made contact. This has been so awesome for me because some of these relatives have pictures of my family that I don’t have, and I have pictures they don’t have. The second benefit is documents that other relatives have added. I might just have a year of death, but someone might have added a death record that verifies my information.
Genealogies – This information has come from the ancestral file or the IGI. You can search by last name and place.
Family Search Catalog – There are digitized collections that have not been indexed, and therefore they do not appear during a records search. You can only find them in the catalog. It gives you the option of searching in the catalog by place, surnames, titles, author, subjects, or keywords. If a camera icon is located after the found results, you can view it from home. If it has a key over the camera, then it can only be viewed at Salt Lake Family History Center or possibly a local Family History Center.
Family History Books – There are over 350,000 books that have been digitized. They have also partnered with Allen Public Library, Houston Public Library, and the Library of Florida to digitize genealogies, family histories, and local histories, basically anything that would benefit us in research.
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