Hurricane Utah FamilySearch Center: Difference between revisions

Learn how to find cousins that are related to you.  FamilySearch family tree is giving you lots of hints to find such cousins.  Puzzilla.org is an app that also helps to find ends of lines that have not been found yet.  Come and learn how to research or attach sources so the work can be done by you.

Premium websites are available in the FamilySearch Center-Portals for research.  These can only be accessed from the FamilySearch Center Computers.  If you wanted to access them from your home computer, the premium websites would require a paid subscription.     

<u>'''Family Search #1'''</u>

<u>'''Family Search #2'''</u>

Adding Record Hints, and Sources using the Family Search Source Linker, as well as sources from other web sites using Record Seek. Adding Record Hints and other Sources to our ancestors helps to make them become real people and it helps to tell their stories.  It is one thing to know their birth and death dates, however, it is even more important to know of the events that happened in their lives between their birth and death.  We can learn more about ourselves when we learn more about our ancestors.   

'''<u>Family Search #3 -- Memories</u>'''

You can now index on your tablets of or other mobile devices.  No downloads are required!  Come learn the new program.  Searchable only. Through indexed records, more and more people are now able to find their family members and add them to their family trees.  Because of Indexing, more SOURCES are becoming available every day!!

Family History is a perishable commodity unless we do something to preserve what we have now! Without us realizing it, much of our treasured family history stuff is being damaged by not being cared for properly.  It could potentially be lost forever if we don't act now to take care it. '''Come learn how to ORGANIZE, PRESERVE, SHARE & STORE your boxes full of family history stuff.  '''''Heirlooms & Memories'' are special items, papers and photos that explain and document a person's life. They give us a tangible connection to our ancestors. It's important to preserve these things for future generations.

Learning how to do research is not a difficult task these days. Familytree has many hints already to attach to your ancestor. Make sure it is the correct record for your family.

Going beyond what family search gives you, you will learn what information to look for on a record, especially those easier ones like census records. Learn to glean the most you can from looking at the original record, not just an indexed record. Did you know they don’t index everything that might be important to you? We have staff on hand to help you practice what you learn today.

There are tweeks and tricks in advanced RootsMagic that will help you organize a family reunion, print out data sheets to find what might be missing in a person’s life information, sheets to find who was living in a particular area and time, color code direct ancestors, add photos and documents, merge options, gazetteer, internet tools for sharing and searching and publishing.  You can also print out Reports:  narrative, custom, individual summary, Family Group Sheets, Pedigree charts and others.  We will go over some of these and introduce you to others and as always there are no dumb questions.  RootsMagic is a wonderful programs that does more than just store data.  It also lets you do things with that information in many different ways that are helpful to really personalize “your” files.

Have you heard of Wikipedia?  Family Search has created a resource guide to help you find what information is available in the place you are looking for your ancestor called simply the WIKI.