Tag: FamilySearch
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, yes, but is your ancestor Jon or John? Doing genealogy, we need to understand our ancestors in their own historical context. Names and proper spellings have evolved over time. With the advent of the computer for record keeping in the 20th century, it became essential…
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When you look at a person entry on the shared tree in FamilySearch, sometimes you see a blue box. These are under the category of Research Help and are called record hints (or sometimes just blue hints). These are potential matches from the millions of indexed records in FamilySearch’s collections. They hire programmers to write…
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Women can be hard to find in records because they often took their husband’s name. Come celebrate the mothers in your family tree with hints for finding women. Q&A after the talk.
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Many of us come from somewhere else. Come find out ways to uncover where your ancestors came from. Followed by Q&A.
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Come find out ways that learning about your family history and using FamilySearch to connect your branch of the family tree can help celebrate America’s 250th! Q&A after the talk.