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 [[Image:Logo wcmasthead en.png|right|96px|Logo wcmasthead en.png]]Also, the FamilySearch Catalog has been made available via [[WorldCat Online Catalog|OCLC WorldCat]]<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/ Official website of OCLC WorldCat].</ref> since 2014. OCLC WorldCat is an online union catalog of over 2 billion titles at 72,000 libraries<ref>For list of the small portion of those libraries which have a descriptive page in this Wiki, see the [[:Category:WorldCat libraries]].</ref> in 172 countries and territories. Although it is the world’s largest bibliographic database for materials held around the world, OCLC WorldCat does not list sources housed in repositories outside their consortium.
-=== Preparation  ===
-Before you use the FamilySearch Catalog, it helps to [[Guessing the Easiest to Research Person and Event|choose a person about whom you want to find more information]], and decide what you want to learn about him or her. For example, you may want to find your great-grandmother's death date and place. To do this, you need to [[Guessing a Record Type to Use|decide what types of records are likely to contain that information]].
 === Which Catalog Search Should I Try?  ===