Orem Utah FamilySearch Center

United States > Utah > Utah County > Orem Orem LFHC Director:  Jay W. Grant Hours of Operation Mon: 9 - 5  Tue: 9 - 5  Wed: 9 - 5 Thu: 9 - 5 Fri: 9 - 5   Online Links Utah Death Certificates US Social Security Deaths FamilySearch Record Search newFamilySearch FamilySearch Forums newFamilyHistory Linkpendium Utah Cyndi's List Utah FamilySearch Indexing Salt Lake County Library FH Library Bookmarks FH Library Catalog BYU FH Library LDS.org Logan Regional FHC London England FHC Ogden Regional FHC Orange County LFHC Provo Regional FHC Riverton FSL San Diego LFHC Rootsweb Free BMD England US GenWeb Project Online Death Indexes FindaGrave.com Internment.net Ancestor Hunt UVPAFUG   Online Training Intro to new FamilySearch Mastering Family History FH Library PAF Lessons BYU PAF Tutorial BYU FH Courses BYU FH 261 Lessons Cathie Owens FH Lessons Breaking Thru Brick Walls Orem Large Family History Center A.K.A Utah South Area Family History Training Center Specializing in Family History and New FamilySearch Training Located at 1075 S. Geneva Rd., in Orem (in the Orem University 3rd Stake Building) Phone 801-356-9114 Email: ut_southtrainingfacility@ldsmail.net The Utah South Area Family History Training Center has temporarily relocated to Orem, Utah, and is a Family History unit of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The mission of this Center is to provide quality training in genealogical research and computer technology for those with family history callings and others who have a desire to learn or improve their skills in meeting their personal genealogy goals. Class Schedule To see available classes and to register, click here. Databases & Software Ancestry (limited version) Heritage Quest Footnote.com NewEnglandAncestors.org Godfrey Memorial Library US Civil War Research Database US Civil War Letters and Diaries Images of the American Civil War FindMyPast TheGenealogist British Library 19th C Newspapers WorldVitalRecords Pedigree Resource File Personal Ancestral File Family Insight RootsMagic Ancestral Quest Legacy                  Description of some of the above databases Footnote ( www.footnote.com ) Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development. Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate, and upload content. Godfrey Memorial Library ( www.godfrey.org ) Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records. Heritage Quest/ProQuest ( www.heritagequestonline.com ) Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records. Access to this service will be limited to 1,400 family history centers in North America. Patrons should contact their local family history center to see if this service is available. Family history center directors should contact Family History Center Support with questions. World Vital Records ( www.worldvitalrecords.com ) World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day.