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== News and Events ==
 
* '''The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy''' 7 to 11 January 2008 consists of nine courses of study with twenty classes per course. Learn for five days from some of the best genealogists in the United States. Specific localities covered include Scandinavia, France, Wales, United States. For more information visit [https://www.infouga.org/members/choose_event.php UGA Institute].
 
* '''Free Ancestry.com Access at Major Family History Centers'''. 21 Dec 2007--FamilySearch and The Generations Network, Inc.,&nbsp; announced an agreement that provides free access of Ancestry.com to patrons of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the 13 largest regional family history centers. [[News and Events|Read on....]]<br>


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* The first permanent German settlement in America was Germantown, Pennsylvania, which was settled in 1683. Since that time Germany has been one of the leading countries in providing emigrants to the United States. To trace your ancestor in the German records, you must know his or her town of birth. [[Determining a Place of Origin in Germany|Read more...]]<br>
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Revision as of 14:17, 8 January 2008


How to Use FamilySearch Wiki[edit | edit source]

The list of how-to articles needed has grown too long to show here. See How-to Pages Needed for MediaWiki Instance. We will be prioritizing this list by release. After that is done, we will place the top 3-5 here with a "more..." link which leads to the others.

If you want to test editing a page, please use our sandbox page.

Browse Content by Place[edit | edit source]


















News and Events[edit | edit source]

  • The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy 7 to 11 January 2008 consists of nine courses of study with twenty classes per course. Learn for five days from some of the best genealogists in the United States. Specific localities covered include Scandinavia, France, Wales, United States. For more information visit UGA Institute.
  • Free Ancestry.com Access at Major Family History Centers. 21 Dec 2007--FamilySearch and The Generations Network, Inc.,  announced an agreement that provides free access of Ancestry.com to patrons of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the 13 largest regional family history centers. Read on....


Did you know
[edit | edit source]

  • Just because an ancestor always spelled his name the same way, that does not guarantee it was always spelled that way by a clerk or by an indexer. If your first search fails to find an ancestor, consider the possibility the name is spelled differently than you expect. Read more...
  • The first permanent German settlement in America was Germantown, Pennsylvania, which was settled in 1683. Since that time Germany has been one of the leading countries in providing emigrants to the United States. To trace your ancestor in the German records, you must know his or her town of birth. Read more...