What is FamilySearch?

FamilySearch is the world's largest genealogy organization. FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving and sharing records for over 100 years. FamilySearch has over 4,500 Family History Centers in over 80 countries. FamilySearch operates and maintains the FamilySearch.org website.

What Can I Find at FamilySearch?

FamilySearch Portal Tech Tips FamilySearch Indexing Forums Records Genealogy Software Family Trees Catalog of Resources Community Trees Scanned Books FamilySearch Wiki Order Microfilm/fische Training Directories of FHCs And Much More!

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!

FamilySearch Indexing
https://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.

FamilySearch Records
https://www.familysearch.org Contains billions of names across hundreds of worldwide collections (>100 countries). Goal is to have all microfilmed records digitized and searchable (2.5 million rolls=~10 years to convert to digital format @ ~5 minutes per roll). There are over 200 teams in over 45 countries digitizing new records as we speak. 380 million new digital images will be added in 2012. Access to entire records collection is FREE*.

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WESTERHEIDE

WESTERHEIDE OHIO 1890 1920

Online Film Ordering

https://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.

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.

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!

FamilySearch Community Trees

http://histfam.familysearch.org

Community Trees are lineage-linked genealogies from specific locations and time periods around the world. Includes both written and oral genealogies.

FamilySearch Training
https://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

FamilySearch Research Wiki

https://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.

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FamilySearch Tech Tips

https://www.familysearch.org/techtips Find answers to your tech questions. Learn about new genealogy tools.

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