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 '''To Register:'''  Call 360-944-5773 during our open hours (see above) or email:  [mailto:WA_Vancouver@ldsmail.net WA_Vancouver@ldsmail.net]
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+==== '''<u>''Handouts from class''</u>'''  ====
+'''Searching Unindexed Collections on Family Search'''
+As of June 2017, there are 2230 record collections available for searching on FamilySearch.org.
+Many record collections are searchable, meaning that they have been indexed.  However, about 70% of the record collections are not yet indexed – but you can still “browse” the record collection.
+'''Some of the following countries have the largest amounts of records that are on FamilySearch as unindexed collections:'''
+'''Italy''':  129 record collections
+'''Germany''':  45 record collections
+'''Brazil, England, Guatemala, Mexico, Netherlands, Ohio, Portugal, U.S. General''':  between 20 – 30 record collections each
+'''Idaho, Indonesia, Maine, New York, Oregon, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wales, Washington''':  between 10 – 19 record collections each
+'''Many other interesting collections are available, from diverse locations such as:'''  Albania, American Samoa, Armenia, Benin, Cook Islands, Guam, Haiti, Hungary, Micronesia, Korea, Newfoundland, Slovakia, Wales, and more!!
+'''Note:'''  dates found in these record collections span from before 1000 AD through as late as 2012.
+The following kinds of records are available in these “browseable” collections:
+* Land records
+* Divorce Indexes
+* Naturalization records
+* Wills
+* Burial records
+* Cemetery records
+* Probate
+* Freedmen’s Bureau
+* Court Papers
+* Census
+* Passenger Lists/Travel Documents
+* Church Records
+* Military Records
+* City Records
+* Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers
+* Civil Registrations
+* And more!
+'''Case Study'''
+If I’m looking for Samuel Osborn, who I believe was granted land in around 1888 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, where would I go to find this record?
+If I’m looking for a relative, who lived in Stark County, Ohio at the time of his death in 1973, where would I go to look for the records?  What record collection could I search?
 == '''Staff Training'''  ==