Guide to FamilySearch.org

[@KimberlyGreen]

RE hard-to-read images (census records, headstones, etc) ... try downloading the full image & opening in an image-viewing app. Some of them (I use FastStone) have the ability to change to black and white, sepia tone, adjust contrast, etc. I've done that when transcribing headstones and it helps in some cases.

[@GenealogyTV]

Yes. Especially for faint records, cranking the contrast and lowering the brightness in almost any program works.

[@kayharwood2489]

I want to say thank you for all the helpful videos you share. I am now creating research notes starting with ancestors surrounding brick walls. This has helped confirm I have the correct 2x time great grandparents on one line. Basically it teased out an area where the grandfather was living which neither I nor Ancestry had cottoned on to and this returned his death when I then used that information in the card catalogue and drilled down. I've now obtained the death certificate, I only wish our UK death certificates were as informative as your US ones. Many thanks.

[@carlaporath7076]

I am very thankful you posted this video!! I know I have missed out by not using Family Search because I find it very cumbersome!!

[@GenealogyTV]

If nothing else, use it for researching records and the research wiki to find the records.

[@janshannon7906]

Hi Cousin, I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I have learned so much about the basics. With this video I discovered we are cousins. My 8th great grandparents are Sir Knight John Garrett and Elizabeth Ware (thru son William Garrett). It really is a small world. Keep making your instructional and informative videos. Thank you Jan Shannon

[@GenealogyTV]

Well I’ll have to check it out.

[@leannwilson2668]

HEY Jan I'm a cousin too Hugs you both ❤❤

[@ProgRockKeys]

Someone in Family Search has tied royal links into many branches of my tree. I researched them all independently, and none of them are real. I’m American, royals did not get on ships and set up families in the new world in 1600. I gave up on Family Search accuracy years ago.

[@debbyrennock8435]

Thank you for this. You are very helpful for my research.😊

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AndrewCiavarella-yq8vd]

Outstanding Connie. Thank you for the tour.

[@GenealogyTV]

Thank you.

[@prunelladipstick6449]

Thank you so much for today's video. I learned a couple of new things that I will use today in my research!

[@GenealogyTV]

Wonderful!

[@tamouchy]

Even though I've been doing this a while I still learn all kinds of neat little things from you! Thanks so much!!!

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome! Thanks for supporting the channel.

[@lisaaneepeacock]

Another great Video!!

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks!

[@MaryClark-j3k]

Thank you for your help. I have been able to find my great-grandma on my mother's side. Her name was misspelled but because it listed her husband & address I was able to have her death certificate. Also just a little addition: my maiden name is Knox.

[@GenealogyTV]

👍

[@conniestenhjem8753]

Excellent

[@GenealogyTV]

Thank you so much

[@martast.john-anders6448]

You always show me things I had not discovered on my own! I can't thank you enough. I don't know how you make time for your own research plus teaching all of us. Great job, Connie!

[@GenealogyTV]

Well I don't get to research my own very often. Maybe this weekend. :) Thanks for the compliments.

[@kendramccarthy2394]

Thank you. This was great as I've found FS to be infuriating sometimes i.e. "NO stop adding people to my tree when it makes no sense!' Lol. You have given me some valuable research tools.

[@GenealogyTV]

So glad.

[@saraschneider6781]

It's not your tree.

[@d.frossard6645]

Thank you, I found this very helpful.

[@GenealogyTV]

I'm so glad!

[@bethelliott4049]

Very helpful, Connie! Thank you!

[@GenealogyTV]

You are so welcome!

[@caseyzahn3226]

As always, a great and wonderful video!🥰

[@GenealogyTV]

Thank you! 🤗

[@josesdiary]

Thank you very much 😊

[@GenealogyTV]

You're welcome 😊

[@GenealogyTV]

You're welcome 😊

[@suzannechalifoux8587]

Thank you so much for this video! It helps a lot!

[@GenealogyTV]

Glad it helped!

[@cindycarrasco2383]

Awesome video as ever...definitely given me more food for thought when using Family Search...I to yes have tree there but not made so big due to fact it is a collaborative tree and people make changes and not always necessarily correct. What i did love was you showed the tree in the aspect of where people possibly could have come from...definitely interesting aspect to learning more where my ancestors came from...again thanks for the video on how to make Family Search work more for you when it comes to genealogy. 😊

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks

[@barbaragrandon6387]

Thank you Connie.

[@mcwulf25]

I find the search function at FS better than other databases I use. Great for finding parents and to put in any date range you like (Ancestry take note). On the downside, the shared tree is full of rubbish.

[@patriciajrs46]

I find family search helpful most of the time. It's aggravating that they don"/ have an accessable tab to the source box, and their catalog. I can't access either one.

[@bonniewinograd2356]

I had a similar issue finding a relative. Spelling on the transcription was wrong. Of the 5 people in the same home there were 3 different transcription spellings. Only one had it spelled correctly in the transcription ( and if you looked at the actually record they were all spelled the same)

[@TheGeminiEffect32]

So should I start with my great grandmother since my grand dad passed before I was born

[@GenealogyTV]

Start with your parents and work backwards one generation at a time.

[@FaithHeritageHome]

There's also the temple tab on family search

[@Cheneyjoan]

Now that FS has changed the index view of census, have you figured out a way to do your copy to excel trick?

[@Marilou-id9bl]

Can you help me searching my LOVEONES?

[@TylBub]

On my tree my ancestor for first ancestor isn't the oldest. I've got ones from centuries away but they choose a guy with surname Williams

[@thatoneannoyingfriend]

how do i let other people see my family tree with the helper code i dont know where to go to input this

[@juannitavanwyk34]

Hi love you site. Struggle to find my parents marriage records. They past. And don't have family to ask questions. Any help please. I'm from south africa. Thank you Juannita❤

[@GenealogyTV]

Have you tried this website for searching marriage records in South Africa? www.eggsa.org/bdms/Marriages.html

[@TIKITECHA-2095]

can i hire you? lol we are immigrants and finding this stuff out is hard

[@GenealogyTV]

Thanks for the compliment. Currently my plate is full. I have an agreement with Legacy Tree Professional Genealogists to handle research requests. You can find my page here. www.legacytree.com/genealogytv

[@msanderlin3330]

Try not to get Distracted. Rabbit Hole. That's what's so fun. 😇

[@nellerue446]

I was thinking the same thing! I guess I'll have to call that "Recess" and my focused research ""Classwork"

[@fredharvey2720]

What really bothers me about all that online family tree databases is the way they have names and so forth but no primary source of where that information came from

[@robertahakala8428]

Will be checking on a census record I found in Ancestry using the Fhl# but could not find indexed in FS. I know the image in on FS by searching for a neighbor. My thoughts on the ID#- I find I have to merge duplicates a lot, especially on my Norwegian ancestors, so the ID# can change. So not sure recording the number would be beneficial for me at least.

[@GenealogyTV]

Interesting thought... good to know. I don't see merges on FS that often.

[@CSLivezey]

I alwys get Error 15 it's driving me crazy,

[@markstambaugh3273]

Is there anyway to get help on Family Search? I have messed up a tree trying to remove an incorrect child

[@GenealogyTV]

Click the ? in the upper right corner and click Contact Us... and someone from FamilySearch should be able to help you.

[@RhondaCrissHartsfield]

Thank you for all of your tips, it’s been very helpful. However, I’m looking for the 1900 Census for Quitman Mississippi. I’m looking for Zula Rodgers Graham and Jesse Graham. There’s a disconnect in finding some of there records before that time, those are my great grandparents and I can’t seem to find info before 1920 Census. Any suggestions? It’s so weird.

[@GenealogyTV]

Try various spellings. Zula might Sula in the transcriptions, etc. try search the area for just the surname.

[@RhondaCrissHartsfield]

Thank you so much! I will try this particular variation.@@GenealogyTV

[@saraschneider6781]

Connie I admit I stay away from Family Search as much as I can because it's just a hot mess… what is the easiest way of cross-referencing a family tree housed elsewhere like an Ancestry that you feel is pretty darn accurate with Family Search. I've tried a few times but I always get confused and lose my spot going back and forth. A bit off-topic but also asking the same for Geni and WikiTree because I'm also having the same issue.

[@GenealogyTV]

I suggest you use family search for hints and for record search because they have different records than on Ancestry sometimes. Additionally, sometimes you can read the records on family search easier than you can. Ancestry don’t give me wrong. I love Ancestry. My primary tree is on Ancestry ,but I do a lot of research on family search as well.

[@saraschneider6781]

​@@GenealogyTV But unfortunately if you don't have all of your branches connected to a family search, you won't get nearly as many relatives from Roots Tech as you should…I'm sitting at 30 currently.

[@exdus235]

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[@marlaspeeth7098]

Hello Connie! Thank you for this awesome video! I do have a question for you. It is in regards to the "set the preferred parents" tab. I just recently found my paternal father and I have added him as a parent but he was never my mom's spouse. Can I toggle back and forth with the "set the preferred parents" tab? If I follow my paternal father will I get notifications if I am in the other "preferred parent" mode? Thank you for your help!

[@GenealogyTV]

I assume you're talking about Ancestry and not FamilySearch?

[@marlaspeeth7098]

No. I am working in familysearch@@GenealogyTV

[@lumberhack2002]

Only one question. Why is my FTM not connecting to FamilySearch all of a sudden?

[@GenealogyTV]

I don't know. I don't sync to any platform anymore.

[@TH.2529.DeafFu]

ประเทศไทยแอป Family Search หาย ป.ช.ช ปลอมใช่ครับ

[@heatherchereeland-roessler1320]

I do not like the recent changes to Family Search. I find is DISTURBING that when my "live person, myself; has to see the "one of two, or one of three" when I go into doing family research. I preferred it to be "preferred spouse". Once I'm dead and am no longer alive to have to look at my still alive private account to where I am now forced to "deal" with ex's in my face. When a person is doing their genealogy they should have the ability to have it come up the way we want it to. If I'm forced to have to deal with it every time? Or to be reminded I'm just the "second wife"? I am thinking I may have to delete my account, and sever any ties with family search. I understand that there are people who think diffeeently than we do but the "Fathers Sex"? WHAT THE HECK? I'd my church going "woke". If you have a father, then they are a male. PERIOD. You might have two of them, or two moms. But to be mom or dad, DEPENDS on them being either female or male. Ya can't have a father that is a woman. Last I knew it was physically impossible to be a man and a woman at the same time.

[@SheleneGuice]

Could you help me I have most of it I will pay shelene Guice

[@SheleneGuice]

I have. A great great great grandpa who is on dow roll I am wanting to get my tribe card

[@GenealogyTV]

Check out this episode to see if it helps. Native American Indian and Indigenous Genealogical Research kzbin.info/www/bejne/noXHeX-Prc2MhJo

[@daverave3698]

So, I looked up Benjamin Grimes Garrett Jr and discovered he's my 5th cousin 5 times removed through my mother! Ha!

[@GenealogyTV]

Fantastic. We might be cousins.

[@ruthzimmermann-vb8uc]

Ich suche den Vater meines Vaters. Mein Vater hiess Ernst Hermann Klopfstein, geboren 5.März 1912 in Interlaken Schweiz.

[@tangara7166]

I have trouble searching women byb their maiden name. I get so many hits on them using the last name as their married name. It's there an easy way to search only maiden name? Even if i add a husband. It seems to search as if it's their married name.