Today is the Sabbath and what a better way to spend Sunday then in finding your ancestors. Today, we had Stake Conference which was a broadcast from Salt Lake City. If you are not a member of the LDS church, a stake conference happens twice a year where we hear from the leaders of the church to help strengthen…
When I first started getting into family history, I found most of my success finding cousins. I had a grandmother from my mom's side and a grandfather from my dad's side that had done a lot of family history work on my direct grandparents. When I moved to Pennsylvania and discovered that Pottstown, the very town we moved too,…
Since today is Halloween, I found this article about how it used to be a time to serve others and how some young men decided to do the same thing, it is called Olden-Days Halloween. It talks about how in a certain town "people wore special costumes and went around town doing good deeds, such as taking food and…
Today, go to FamilySearch and find an ancestor on your family tree that was born in the late 1800's. Find any records about their life and attach it. Next, verify that the information on family tree matches your records. If you find any errors on your tree, edit it! Not sure how to do that? Here's a great resource….
Today, take some time to index just 5 records. If you haven't already installed the indexing program to your computer, go here to install it now. What is indexing? Well, it is the backbone of the Record Search and it helps us find almost all the information to find new ancestors and make sure that the ones already in…
Day 3: Find a Story. I want you to dig through your "Memories" and "People" from yesterday's task. When you see an interesting photo, click on it and see if their is a story about that ancestor. If not, move on to another photo until you find one. If you are the first to comment on this post with…
Have fun on FamilySearch by finding a photo of an ancestor. The fastest way to do this is to go to "Memories" click on "People" then where it says "Added by Me" click the small arrow and then click "All." Have fun browsing the photos on your family tree and see if anyone looks like YOU! Print out this…
Log onto FamilySearch and find and attach a US 1900 Census on an ancestor from the late 1800s or early 1900s to your family tree. Not sure what a census is? Check out this video below. Found it in a snap? Grab as many Census reports that you can on one ancestor and "attach" the records. Did you do…
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