Family Search

Try a New Source – NUMIDENT!

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!

Preserving Records

RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

Relationships change over time. Just consider the difference in your relationship with your parents when you were a child, teenager, young adult, married with kids, and when your parents are in their later years. Our strongest feelings about a relationship tend to be the nature of the relationship at the moment and we often forget… Read More RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

Record Keeping

Master the Maze

I don’t know if you’ve had this experience while doing Family History, but when my husband and I do ours… we can get lost in the maze very quickly.  You know, one thing leads to another and pretty soon you are lost! Though there are many techniques for keeping track of doing the work of family… Read More Master the Maze

Indexing

Indexing – Alive and Well

At RootsTech 2020, Ty Davies, the Records Portfolio Director for Family Search, talked about the amazing developments occurring with respect to indexing, including the following: At the rate we are indexing it will take us 170 years just to index the images currently available. The process of indexing takes about two years from the photographing… Read More Indexing – Alive and Well