whats new at familysearch - sges may 2012
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Whats New atFamilySearch?
Miles Meyer
SGES Presentation
12 May 2012
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What is FamilySearch?
FamilySearch is the world's largest genealogyorganization.
FamilySearch has been actively gathering,
preserving and sharing records for over 100years.
FamilySearch has over 4,500 Family HistoryCenters in over 80 countries.
FamilySearch operates and maintains theFamilySearch.org website.
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What Can I Find at FamilySearch?
FamilySearch Portal
FamilySearch Indexing
Records
Family Trees
Community Trees
FamilySearch Wiki
Training
Tech Tips
Forums
Genealogy Software
Catalog of Resources
Scanned Books
Order Microfilm/fische
Directories of FHCs
And Much More!
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Whats New?
FamilySearch has published 530 million
images and 1.7 billion indexed records.
FamilySearch has signed an agreement with
the Italian government to digitize all their civil
registration records.
FamilySearchs goal is to publish 400 million
images this year.
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Whats New?
FamilySearch has 3.5 billion frames of
microfilm/fiche yet to be digitized.
FamilySearch teams are capturing 75 million
new images annually.
1.3 million records are indexed each day.
FamilySearch will add the capability for usersto annotate records with corrections this year.
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1940 Census!
The 1940 census was released to the public onApril 2.
There are 3.6 million images in the 1940 census.
More than 650 societies are helping to index the1940 census.
Over 30% of the census has been indexedalready!
The current projection is that the census will becomplete in July.
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How Can You Help FamilySearch Indexing?https://indexing.familysearch.org
Volunteer indexing program for worldwide
records collection (>150,000 active volunteers
from 130 countries).
Indexing done on your home computer at
your own pace. Two people index each page.
Differences are reviewed by Arbitrators.
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FamilySearch Recordshttps://www.familysearch.org
Contains billions of names across hundreds of
worldwide collections (>100 countries).
Goal is to have all microfilmed records digitized and
searchable (2.5 million rolls=~10 years to convert todigital format @ ~5 minutes per roll).
There are over 200 teams in over 45 countries
digitizing new records as we speak.
Access to entire records collection is FREE*.
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Indexed
Unindexed
Images
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WESTERHEIDE
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WESTERHEIDE
OHIO 1890 1920
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Online Film Orderinghttps://www.familysearch.org/films
Allows you to order genealogical resources
from the Family History Library.
Orders are delivered to your local Family
History Center for your use.
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Family History Books (beta)http://books.familysearch.org
Collection of over 40,000 digitized genealogy
publications.
Each name is being added to a family tree.
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FamilySearch Family Tree (beta)
Trees are contributed by researchers.
Multiple opinions for the events can be
entered.
Opportunity for sources, evidence, analysis,
and discussions so multiple researchers can
work together.
Currently in beta release.
Will go public this year!
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FamilySearch Family Trees
How do I sign up?
Visit familysearch.org
Click on Help
Search for Public access to Family Tree
Follow the instructions
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FamilySearch Family Trees
If you do not currently use
new.familysearch.org, you must first sign up to
use new.familysearch.org.
Go to http://www.familysearch.org/invite/public1.
Enter the user name and password of your
FamilySearch Account.
Click Sign In.
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FamilySearch Family Trees
Sign up to use the Family Tree:
Go to
https://www.familysearch.org/invite/familytree_t
ab. Enter the user name and password of your
FamilySearch Account.
Click Sign In. You will be taken to familysearch.org,where you will be signed in and see a Family Tree
link next to the FamilySearch logo.
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FamilySearch Family Trees
To see your tree, click the Family Tree link. Thislink is located in the upper-left corner of thescreen, next to the FamilySearch logo. Because only those who are deceased are shown in
Family Tree, you won't immediately see your tree. Youwill need to add living parents or grand-parents untilyou can connect to one of your deceased ancestors.
Search for a deceased ancestor first so that you willknow which living people you have to add to create
the links back to the deceased ancestor you find. Repeat this process on each of your ancestral lines to
create your full tree.
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FamilySearch Traininghttps://www.familysearch.org/learn
Research Courses over 250 training courses
covering a wide range of subjects from around the
world in various formats (audio, video & interactive
slides). Research Wiki free collection of family history
articles provided by family history enthusiasts from
around the world.
Discussion Forums
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FamilySearch Research Wikihttps://wiki.familysearch.org
Guides researchers on where and how to find
information to aid their research.
Allows the researchers to contribute
knowledge to help others.
Open source, just like Wikipedia, but focused
on the genealogy community.
Nearly 70,000 articles. Adding 1,000 pages per
month.
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FLORIDA
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