As of June 1, 2021, the FamilySearch catalog is no longer being updated with any new capture or corrections. The catalog will remain with the information it currently contains but it will grow stale over time. All new capture will be located in the image Search tool.
Handouts for class Kathryn Grant
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bqc3kQVNWQGzeDo6pB3Y24hbaVm3F1eakx4gu8B41Ck/editgrant
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Family Group Record Collection: 1942-1969. Family Group Sheets submitted to the Genealogical Society.
The Family History Guide: Family History Guide. This free site has many helpful links to learning about family history.
FamilySearch Learning Center for online classes: https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html.
Writing your Life Story. This site gives suggestions for writing your life history. How to write a Memoir.
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Family History Centers
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Search helps for using Ancestry.com Library edition at a Family History Center.
Date of death calculator. http://www.txbobsc.com/misc/ageatdeathcalc.html
BYU Family History Internet sites. Links to many different sources by Kip Sperry.
BYU https://guides.lib.byu.edu/familyhistory
IGI Searches:
The following note from Phil Dunn posted on Ancestry Insidder:
To all who are interested in obtaining up-to-date indexed/extracted data content in the FamilySearch system:
For more effectively finding available online British data content [can also be used for Europe and other areas of the world]. . .one of the very best ways to obtain up-to-the-moment info on whether a parish or chapelry (in especially England) has been indexed/extracted is to take the following very simple approach:
1) Go to FamilySearch www.familysearch.org
2) click "Search"
3) place curser in the "Place name" text box for i.e. "Births" or "Death" or "Marriage"
4) merely (but correctly as possible) type in the name of the parish or chapelry name
5) click "Search"
Optional:
6) test by restricting/testing ranges of years as desired to determine precisely which years have data content are available online. Because we are adding content daily, it is extremely difficult to peg any point in time what FamilySearch has actually recently indexed (in the British realm of records) vs. what's not--unless you apply this approach.
The above will not work for large townships and cities, like i.e. "Manchester", "London", Birmingham, etc. You must know the exact or specific parish or chapelry within each city. Hint: go the FamilySearch online catalog and obtain the precise spelling of parish or chapelry names, such as "St Ann[e] Manchester", or "St Ann Blackfriars" (London). Note: Sometimes the system requires you to spell out a place i.e. S-a-i-n-t Ann Manchester, and etc.
Also, keep in mind that the FamilySearch Wiki is currrently constructing England parish links to online data content which provides researchers with some powerful links to online data content from not only FamilySearch, but from other major iconic websites such as Lancashire Online Parish Clerk (7m entries), and Ancestry.co.uk (~2m entries and quickly growing!) and others. For example, see each of Lancashire's parishes or chapelry pages, under Lancashire "Parish" (and Chapelry) pages. Here's the Liverpool St Peter & St Nicholas Parish. Lancashire is mostly completed for now; Yorkshire is approaching completion and Greater London is populated with numerous available links to online data content from especiallyAncestry.co.uk, and FinMyPast, etc.
Hope the above steps are helpful to those researching especially in the UK (these steps should also work for much of Scandinavia, and many other countries around the world).
Phil Dunn
Sr British Consultant
FamilySearch.org
It is now possible to do the following to see if a film is extracted or indexed. Go to FamilySearch.org. Do a search, choose records, put in a film number and if the parish is extracted the list of names will come up. You can also put a place name in "Any" and put in the name of the town and all records relating to that town will come up.
WESTERN EUROPE VITAL RECORDS INDEX
Link to parishes indexed in the Western Europe Vital Records Index