Taming the FamilySearch Goliath

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1 Taming the FamilySearch Goliath Class 9: (LDS) Ancestry.com People, Photos & Records Presenter: Carol Hansen Devine, M.A. Ed. Family History Consultant Desert Hills Ward, West Richland, WA Recorded 26 Jan 2017

2 Class 8 covered: 1. Identifying possible errors in data for a family group 2. Correcting the FIVE most common relationship errors 3. A systematic process for fixing multiple errors in data for a family group, and when NOT to use them In Class 9 (this class), we suggest using Ancestry.com to: 1. Back up verified data from FamilySearch Family Tree 2. Discover your relatives in family trees shared by others 3. Obtain historic photos and vital records

3 WHAT IS ANCESTRY.COM? Nine out of 10 family history researchers are NOT LDS. Ancestry.com is a popular place where non-members happily share what they ve learned about the ancestors you have in common. Global family research company out of Provo, UT. Offices in the US, Ireland, England, Sweden, Australia and Germany Launched Ancestry.com in1996 Owns 7 comparable websites for international research in native languages Canada, Europe and Australia 70 million family trees Now owns Ancestry.DNA, Fold 3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave.com 2 million paying subscribers $620+ million annual revenue Pays for top-notch programming, sophisticated search engines, and amazing databases

4 COME SEE WHAT ANCESTRY.COM CAN DO Without entering a family tree Find a missing ancestor Search for vital records for a person After entering a family tree (backs up your data!) Find armloads of vital records and link them to ancestors in Family Tree Find and save dozens of historic photos

5 LDS: GET YOUR FREE USER NAME AND PASSWORD Go to Click the icon for Ancestry.com Sign in to FamilySearch so they can verify you re LDS Indicate you ve never had a password before Accept the terms of use (Recommended:) Create and name your new PUBLIC member tree and allow Ancestry to download it from FamilySearch Why free to LDS members? This benefit was negotiated for you by the Church as part of a $250 mil. contract in about The Church will digitize, index and provide access to the records in the granite vaults in Utah for Ancestry.com subscribers.

6 Why create a public member tree? Get feedback from others Back up your ancestors verified family data Put Ancestry to work finding photos, records and relatives for your ancestors Ancestry: Copy from, but do not change, my family data Family Tree: Anyone can change anything My Family

7 Three steps: 1. Download several generations of your direct lines when you create your new tree through a link with Family Tree. Icon means person in Family Tree is connected to their counterpart in Ancestry. Create a public family tree in Ancestry.com 2. Extend branches: download up to four generations from end of line connected ancestors in your new tree 3. Download siblings of your connected ancestor one at a time from FamilySearch

8 Don t want to create a tree in Ancestry? X Your account still gets you: Ability to search for records one person at a time Access to other people s trees that include an ancestor you want to learn more about Access to vital records through Card Catalog

9 Covered in Class 9 Introduction to: 1. Getting a free LDS username and password 2. Creating a public family tree in Ancestry.com to back up your data and put Ancestry to work for you 3. Discovering your relatives in family trees shared by others 4. Obtaining historic photos and records for your ancestors Homework Assignment Set up your account in Ancestry.com. While doing so, download a direct lines public tree from FamilySearch. For one end-of-line relative, add up to 4 additional generations. Add the brothers and sisters of one of your ancestors by downloading them one at a time from FamilySearch. Using provided hints, add vital records and historic photos to your new tree.

10 Did you miss something that interests you? Taming the FamilySearch Goliath Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Indexing - Make historic records available to researchers Quick start - Get a username and password. Connect your closest ancestors to data others have entered in FamilySearch. Data entry standards Entering names, dates and places correctly helps to eliminate duplicate people. Photos and stories - Bring your ancestors pages to life. Merging - Take the fear out of merging duplicate people and families. Source records - Convince us the data is right. LDS Family ordinances - purpose. Find and reserve ancestors names. Print cards. Manage your project. Fix errors - Correct errors in existing family data. Intro to Ancestry.com for LDS Get a username and password. Back up your family data. Find missing ancestors, records, and historic photos.

11 Taming the FamilySearch Goliath Learn to use FamilySearch Family Tree with confidence and skill. Download the classes, and class handouts, from Also includes links to see the classes on YouTube. This series of 9 classes was presented before a live audience and recorded between Nov 3, 2016 to Jan 26, 2017 by West Richland Stake, WA, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mike Goodmansen, Event Coordinator (509) Special thanks to Richland Family History Center, WA for generous support and use of classroom facilities and equipment.

12 New classes available April 2017 Family History in an Hour a Week Pick your specialty. Print handouts & watch a class.* Get started! Vital records indexer Make vital records accessible to family historians searching for them. Family photos & records preservation Scan and add your family photos and records to person pages in Family Tree. Family stories preservation Interview living relatives and preserve family stories for future generations in Family Tree. Family photo finder Discover historic photos in Ancestry.com. Add them to person pages in Family Tree. Family photo identification Ask living relatives to identify people in an historic family photo. Add it to person pages in Family Tree. Vital records finder -- Convince us a person s data in Family Tree is right by finding and attaching vital records. * Handouts, downloads and links at