1. What’s New at
FamilySearch?

2. Getting Youth Involved

3. Connecting living generations

4. Leveraging technology

5. Serving the world’s families

6. FamilySearch Branches Out
Collaborative Family Tree for everyone
Add and share photos and stories
Search 3.5 billion names

7. www.familysearch.org

8. Family Tree: Photos
Nearly
2 million
photos
uploaded

9. Family Tree: Fan Chart

10. Family Tree: Pedigree View

11. Family Tree: Person View

12. Search Categories
▪ Records
3.5 Billion records some with images
▪ Genealogies
Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File (read-only)
▪ Catalog
Key to 93 % of the world biggest genealogical collection
▪ Books
More than 100,000 FH books from several libraries
▪ Wiki
A seriously underutilised treasure

13. Bottom Half of Main Search Screen:
Choose your country
View all collections for that country

14. Main Search Screen

15. Parish Registers on FamilySearch
The marked items are the old IGI for British Isles

16. Photoduplication Service

17. Photoduplication Service
www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Photoduplication_Services

18. What does the little camera mean?
Sorry, but the camera can mean four different things
• You can see image at home with no log-in
• You can only see image at a Family History Centre
• You can see image by logging in as an LDS member
• You can see image by logging in as LDS or public member

19. Cornwall and Devon Browse Images
• First choose County: Cornwall
• Then choose Parish: Bodmin
• Then choose event and time period

20. Parish Registers on FamilySearch

21. 7 January Additions to Records

22. Search Tips
Use ‘exact match’ wisely.
(It’s the small box to the right of a search field)
Learn to use ‘filters’
Search by given name only
as specific as possible with date and place
Search with no names at all
as specific as possible with date and place

23. Search Tips: Wildcards
1 Remember to include at least 3 letters
Not Sm*; Not G*z
2 Use up to three wildcards in a name
H*p*z* or B*rch*l*
3 Use a wildcard in both given and surname
Sus* B*nett

24. Search Tips: Wildcards
4 Use a wildcard for up to 3 letters at the
front of a name
*skeep for Inskeep; *bou for Thibou
5 Use a wildcard for more than one letter at
the end of a name
Hep* for Hepzibah

25. At the top of every page: Get Help

26. Wiki: Find a Probate Jurisdiction
Search for ‘[Warks] probate’. Scroll down in the article
to Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

27. Learning Centre Video Courses

28. maps.familysearch.org
Parish
Civil Registration
Diocese
Rural Deanery
Poor Law Union
Hundred
Province
Division

29. Boyd’s Inhabitants of London in a trice
histfam.familysearch.org
On home page choose ‘See community trees’

30. Boyd’s Inhabitants of London Result

31. London Family History Centre
Free subscription sites
Ancestry, FindMyPast, Origins, TheGenealogist,
US sites etc
Major microfilm collection
Parish records 10,000+ parishes
All wills 1858-1925 plus huge probate coll’n
Irish records
Scottish records
Caribbean records
Exotic records
Tuesday Talks
Speakers available

32. www.londonfhc.org

33. Lincolnshire records on film
Films from 684 Lincolnshire
parishes are currently
available for viewing.

34. English Probate Records on film
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Post 1858 Probate Calendars 1858-1957
Post 1858 Record Copy Wills 1858-1925
PC York Calendars and Copy Wills
PC Canterbury Calendars & Wills
Death Duty Registers
Many many pre 1858 probate records

35. Summar
www.familysearch.org
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Online records under
Search
Collaborative Family
Tree
Catalogue of all LDS
films
www.londonfhc.org
No online records
Catalogue of on-site
films

36. Egypt 2nd millenium BC
60 generations of Priests of the god Ptah
Berlin stele of Ashakhet