How to Use FamilySearch - Essential Search Strategies

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💎In this week's live session on KZbin I'm going to share with you search strategies that every genealogist should be using when searching for records at FamilySearch.org, the popular free genealogy website.
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01:54 Introduction
04:46 How to search for records at FamilySearch
10:05 Searching for alternate name variations at FamilySearch
14:45 FamilySearch wild cards for searching
19:43 Cluster Research
24:29 How to create a FamliySearch research log with Snagit
29:57 Surname Search strategies
32:07 Searching Life Events
42:11 Searching for Places
43:54 Searching by Year
45:06 Advanced Search Strategies
48:37 Marriage Records
49:23 Best Practices for searching at FamilySearch
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[@rogerlewis1295]

Best tips for FamilySearch that I’ve viewed so far. You do a great job of explaining and providing examples. Are you really this positive all the time? Thank you for the tips. I am a newbie with a great desire to learn more.

[@GenealogyGems]

Yep, pretty much, especially when it comes to genealogy 😀 Thanks!

[@donnagantt1309]

Hello to all from Oklahoma!

[@warrenjansen9871]

Hi Leslie, I've use Snagit for years!

[@lionheart830]

My father's birth certificate had his name spelled "Raimond" yet he was named Raymond. The doctor had completed the information. The date was one day off on my mother's BC.

[@kathleenkelley1299]

Great episode! Love learning all these new search strategies. Looks like I will be spending more time at FamilySearch.

[@jayneparrott7680]

New to your channel and loving it 💕. Easy to follow and very informative. Love the idea of craft as well. Thanks

[@McGuiresGreatAdventures]

Loved the episode!!! Use FamilySearch all the time.

[@GenealogyGems]

Thanks Ray!!

[@barbaracoviello3020]

Excellent episode! Thanks, Lisa! Great reminders, strategies, tips, and examples for how to use Family Search. I'm inspired! Looking forward to more Family Search episodes on the other search types (catalog, etc.).

[@GenealogyGems]

Thank you Barbara!😊

[@WestyBrooks]

First time here. Glad I found you.

[@GenealogyGems]

Welcome!

[@suzysterling4579]

loved the presentation. Now lots of image searching

[@GenealogyGems]

Thanks!!

[@brendawilliams1975]

Hi from Maryland

[@GloriaOren]

Hi Lisa

[@debbieroot4618]

Catching the rerum

[@ldjones56]

I have made two DNA discoveries that change the parentage of my mother and grandfather, please tell me how to change this on Family Search?

[@sandramoore8903]

I have a question for you...I was helping family Search out with the 1950s census. One of the lines had a Spanish first name and an English last name AND a English first name and a Spanish last name. One of the full names was crossed out. I don't know who crossed it out or why it was crossed out. It could have been the person was living under an alias, They had been adopted, or they were in the midst of legally changing their name. I tried to include both names so that which ever name their descendants were going by, and researching by, they could see the change and be able to check it out in their research. Did I handle this correctly?

[@chadweiss8269]

What about Rayemond or Raeymond or raemond

[@jacipetrie1194]

Just got one question.... why didn't I find you sooner...? Would love to subscribe but at 14 x the price in SA not doable right now. Thanks very much!

[@GenealogyGems]

Glad you found me and are enjoying the videos! Subscribing here on KZbin is free, and puts our channel conveniently in your KZbin Library (favorites). Premium Membership is the same price regardless of where you live.

[@retort63]

Great information!! How do I find records of my German ancestors who never came to America? Is there an organization in Germany that can assist me or do research for me?

[@GenealogyGems]

There are many types of records created in Germany you can use. Church records are essential. Check out our Videos on German research: Finding German Villages: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opvCn3R5f7-nb5Y 10 Top Tips for Beginning German Genealogy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rau6fWCZnMeYg9U

[@retort63]

@@GenealogyGems Thank you so much for responding. Does it matter if the area of Germany they came from was part of Denmark at the time of their birth? BTW, I just found one of my great grandfather’s and great grandmother’s (both from Rieseby, Germany) immigration records on FamilySearch, so I know the ship they came over on and the date they arrived in New York (at Castle Garden)!! This is so much fun!! Thanks again!

[@sandramoore8903]

Also, realize that the census takes, may have very bad handrighting and when a person is trying to interpret them, it is very difficult and they may get the spelling wrong!