Exciting changes for family history are here at https://familysearch.org/! 1. To see what ordinances still need to be done for your ancestors, go to Family Tree at FamilySearch.org and select “Temple,” followed by “Opportunities.” 2. See familysearch.org/myfamily for the booklet My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together, available in 25 languages. It can help you start gathering family stories. 3. Go to Family Tree at FamilySearch.org to see if someone may have added interesting stories or photos of your ancestors. Or you can add your favorite stories or photos for others to enjoy. 4. At familysearch.org/photos/stories, you can use a simple automated process to write an ancestor’s story right online and link it to the person’s Family Tree profile—preserving it there for future generations. 5. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing can provide clues. Try typing in an ancestor’s name and see what happens. The Church also continues to make agreements with commercial family history websites. By fall 2014, members will be able to create free personal accounts and access billions of records on Ancestry, MyHeritage, and findmypast. 6. See familysearch.org/indexing. Volunteers have extracted more than two billion names worldwide from scanned documents. This indexing makes historic records searchable online. Exciting new changes have recently been made to make indexing even easier. You will love them. 7. At FamilySearch.org, there are over 3 billion historic records easily searchable online, with 500 million more added yearly.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:44:46 +0000
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