User:GrammaNan/Sandbox

familysearch.org Main website, This is the place "enhanced". It has five main parts before signing in and six with LDS sign in. They are 1.Sign In, 2.Family Search, 3.Family Tree, 4.Photos, 5.Search and 6.Temple. You must be signed in for most links to work. Training videos, etc. are with these main parts.


 * Getting to Family Tree  1 page
 * New Enhancements to familysearch.org 2:43 minutes
 * familysearch.org Overview 6:06 minutes
 * Access to Records on FamilySearch–understand different levels access 3:00 minutes

= 1. Sign In   =

Sign In with username and password or recover forgotten username or password or create new account.

Changes to "your name" when signed in. Setting (yours to edit). Source Box (for your Family Tree) and Sign Out

See video Family Search Account*

= 2. FamilySearch =

Found in upper left and is also found in Help Center after clicking Get Help. This is a Help Center page and it consists of a. Product Support, b. Research Assistance, c. Getting Started and d. Learning Center for browsing. Also consists of Search all product support articles and Product Support FAQs.

a. Product Support

 * FamilySearch Account

Handout  Quick Start to Your FamilySearch Account   2 pages

Quick Start to FamilySearch Account   1:10 minutes


 * Temple

Handout  Quick Start to the Temple  2 pages

More Training Videos Online Courses, "How-To"-Videos, Guides and Manuals, Lessons and Activities, Handouts and Webinars.

Quick Start to Reserving Temple Ordinances  1:20 minutes


 * Searching Records

Handout  Finding Records of Your Ancestors in FamilySearch.org  5 pages

Quick Start to Searching Records  1:43 minutes


 * Indexing

Handout

30 pages

Quick Start to Indexing  3:23 minutes


 * Family Tree

Handout Quick Start to Family Tree  11 pages

More Training Videos Online Courses, "How-To"Videos, Guides and Manuals, Lessons and Activities, Handouts and Webinars.

Quick Start to Family Tree  3:59 minutes


 * Photos and Stories

Handout Quick Start to FamilySearch Photos and Stories 15 pages

Quick Start to Photos   4:04 minutes

b.. Research Assistance

 * Ask a specialist-General Research Help, Request Assistance-different choices
 * Research Articles/ WIKI

Research Wiki

 * - Wiki tools for research wiki page
 * - Find an ancestor Using the Wiki wiki page
 * - Overview Familysearch Wiki 12:40 minutes
 * - Researching FamilySearch Wiki: A Case Study – helps you research ancestors 8:00 minutes
 * - Searching the Research Wiki 5:50 minutes
 * - Wiki – Creating Links – Internal and External, add, chg and remove 4:28 minutes
 * - Wiki – Using Templates – for articles 7:23 minutes *- Wiki – Creating a Wiki Article – a new one 5:42 minutes
 * - Wiki – Editing a Wiki Article 6:24 minutes
 * - Wiki – Adding Citations 7:12 minutes
 * - Wiki – Adding Images 6:51 minutes
 * - Wiki – Watching Articles – watch a page 7:32 minutes

c. Getting Started with your family history
1. Discover your story video or start sharing.

2. Exploring your tree video or go to your tree.

3. Find your ancestors video or search records.

d. Learning Center
Browse by place, skill level, subject, formate and language or search or 5 Minute Videos.

Family Tree - your own pedigree in tree or fan chart layout. Family Tree/Fan Chart - choose one or the other. From here you can see your ancestors or descendents or click on any person to go to their person page for details, photos and stories.

= 3. Family Tree =

Your own tree either in normal pedigree or fan chart form. From here you can click on a person then go to their person page, search within the family tree for people, or see who you are watching, look through history of persons you have worked on or help another person with their tree.

Watch List List Person being watched, last modified and most recent changes.
= 3A. Photos when "not" on person page =

Add (My Photos) - Add one or multiple photos at a time. Shows all photos forall of your tree added by you and they upload to My Photos only - not to a person.

Tag (My Photos) - Tag faces to identify the people in your photos. Click on picture to tag.

Share ( Albums) - Create and share albums of ancestor's photos. Alphabetical listed albums of first name typed in - suggest use last name - with number of photos in that album. Click to see or create a new album.

Connect(People )- Connect photos to ancestors to your family tree. If you did not connect when you first added photos, you can do so here.

= TRAINING for Family Tree =

The Reference Guide should be the primary source for information.

= 5. Search =

Discover Your Deceased Ancestors. Search within the world wide family tree by name or ID number.

Records - Records to search for sources for your family tree

 * Family Search: Search Tips 3:26 minutes
 * Finding a Specific Record Collection 4:02 minutes
 * Finding Records; Eight Tips-Finding Records in the free FamilySearch.org 2:22 minutes
 * Using Filters to Get Better Search Results 2:28 minutes
 * Browsing Record Collections 4:39 minutes
 * FS Tips, filters, wild cards, relationship, event, browsing images 9:34 minutes

Genealogies

 * Searching for Ancestors in AF and PRF 3:27 minutes
 * Uploading GEDCOM Files and Copying the Information to Family Tree, FamilySearch Family Tree: A Reference Guide (15 April 2013), Chapter 4, pages 79-89.

Catalog - Search in Catalog

 * Searching the Catalog, See also 6:37 minutes

Books - Search books

 * How to search for books, not a video, knowledge document 20 Dec 2012

= 6. Temple =