A consultant at the Granite FamilySearch Center recently introduced me to “Family Groups,” a tool on FamilySearch Family Tree for sharing temple ordinances with others. I have found it to be very helpful for sharing names with family members and ward members. It has also been helpful for me to keep track of cards I’ve… Read More Family Groups
One of the new sources added to FamilySearch this year is NUMIDENT which stands for “Numerical Identification Files.” The U.S. Social Security Administration created NUMIDENT files to record the earnings of US workers and to determine what benefits each person was authorized to have. The index only contains information for deceased individuals and was gathered from… Read More Try a New Source – NUMIDENT!
A Perfect Gift for Father’s Day Many articles have been written about how to take meaningful family history trips with your family. It is worth a reminder that a “road trip” might just be the perfect gift for Father’s Day! My dad was famous for his road trips. He loved taking us to ghost towns and while… Read More Road Trip with Dad
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at my tree on FamilySearch with my nephew, Tony. He is 12 years old and interested in doing family history. This makes my heart soar, especially since I have a hard time getting my own children interested in doing it. I decided to look at my mother’s… Read More Keeping Looking For Those Hints
Many times when I have been consulting with a patron at the FamilySearch Center, they ask if they can complete all the ordinances available for an individual when using the “Ordinances Ready” feature on Family Tree. From that page, it is only possible to reserve the requested ordinance, for instance; Baptism and Confirmation, Initiatories, Endowments or… Read More All Ready Ordinances
This blog article is to acquaint you with a great tool for Temple and Family History Consultants, the BYU Record Linking Lab. They are helping FamilySearch with several projects for which you can volunteer to help. Their website also includes several videos to help you in your individual Temple and Family History work as well as… Read More Three Things to Do During a Family History Visit
The FamilySearch Center Portal (previously known as the Family History Center Portal) is the way patrons of family history centers around the world can have free access to a variety of genealogical websites. These include websites such as ArkivDigital, Fold3 and NewspaperArchive, which are all excellent websites for researching your family history and normally require… Read More The FamilySearch Center Portal
I have been a Temple and Family History Consultant since 2015 and have been doing my own family history research for over 15 years. But recently I stumbled on a well-kept (though I don’t believe an intentionally-kept) secret! While helping a friend to begin his family research I had the challenge of diving into the… Read More My Secret Sauce: FamilySearch Community Groups
In a RootsTech session this year, Joe Price, the director of the Linking Lab at BYU, described how his lab, through technology, links names from specific groups to people on the FamilySearch Family Tree. One of his recent projects was creating a database of all Utahns who died in the 1918 flu epidemic using Utah… Read More Growing the Family Tree Through Community Reconstitution
In 2018 FamilySearch introduced a wonderful feature called, “Ordinances Ready.” “Ordinances Ready is a FamilySearch tool that simplifies finding names for the temple, allowing you more time to serve your family and enjoy the blessings of the temple… “Ordinances Ready is super simple to use! From the Ordinances Ready web page, all you have to… Read More Are You Ready for Your Ancestors Ordinances?