Genealogy News and Education
We’re excited when we receive a FamilySearch ancestor obituary email. The subject line reads: “We’ve found an obituary mentioning your ancestor.” Then, we click on it only to find this isn’t our ancestor. What’s that all about? Is FamilySearch just trying to get people to click to their website? Keep reading to learn the answer! […]
Many people are having trouble accessing digital records from their home computer via FamilySearch. They are getting a message instructing them to a Family History Center to be able to view the record. What’s the problem and how is the LDS community helping to solve it? Read more to find out! FamilySearch.org is going through […]
Ordering microfilm from the Family History Library is being discontinued as of 31 August 2017. You might be wondering if you should be ordering microfilm right away. The answer might be yes. First, determine if you will need any microfilm in the near future and determine if that microfilm has been digitized or not. Don’t understand what I’m […]
[Note: As of October 3, 2017, changes have been made and affiliate centers have access to nearly everything a Family History Center has. However, there will still be some databases only available from a Family History Center.] A Family History Center Affiliate is different than a Family History Center. With the discontinuation of microfilm distribution […]
Guest blogger, Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, shares how to locate birth and death records for genealogy with a little known search technique. By using this approach, she found over 100 ‘lost’ children in her family tree. Read this amazing story and uncover the family members you never knew were missing. I am an Accredited Genealogist. I […]
