Williamsburg Virginia FamilySearch Center

= 2015 Holiday Closure Notice = We will be closed December 22 - January 2. We look forward to seeing you in the new year!

= Upcoming Events =

See our Events page for more details.

Third Thursday Brown Bag
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - noon

Discovering Resources of the Swem Library for Your Famlly History Special Guest Jay Gaidmore, Director of Special Collections, Swem Library College of William and Mary

RootsMagic User Group
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 10:00 - 11:30 RootsMagic Support Tech Live! Come to learn! Come to share!

Recent Presentations

Click on the presentation title to view and print the handout. Documents are in PDF format.

For more handouts, see our Presentation Handouts page.

November 2015 -

October 2015 - (Spencer Wells)

October 2015 - (Lise Embley)

October 2015 - (Janet Cummings)

October 2015 - (Joe Sell)

October 2015 - (Laura Carver)

September 2015 -

July 2015 - (Guest speaker: Jeanne Sutherland)

June 2015 - Beginning Greek Research (Guest speaker: Carol Kostakas Patranek) - stop by for a copy

June 2015 - National Archives Records on FamilySearch.org (Guest speaker: Carol Kostakas Patranek) - stop by for a copy

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Resources

Our Family History Center features:



Lexmark multi-function printer/scanner with direct scan to FamilySearch Family Tree



Access to 2.3 million rolls of microfilm through the Salt Lake Family History Library



ScanPro digital film/fiche reader



NMI 2020 microfilm readers



Canon Lide flatbed scanner



Wi-Fi access



5 computer workstations

Our computer workstations provide free access to subscription genealogy web sites including:



Access Newspaper Archive



American Civil War Online



Ancestry.com



ArkivDigital online (Swedish church records)



FindMyPast (UK/Ireland Research, PERSI)



Fold3.com (US National Archives records)



MyHeritage.com



NewspaperArchive.com



ProQuest Obituary Collection



19th Century British Newspapers



World Vital Records

Check out our ScanPro 2000 digital microfilm/fiche reader! The reader, and its accompanying computer, printer, and scanner represent top-of-the-line technology for viewing, printing, and saving images from FamilySearch microfilms and fiche.

If you’ve never used microfilm before in your research, take five minutes to learn how to use the FamilySearch Catalog. Go to FamilySearch.org and click on Learn. A short video shows you how to use a Place Search or Last Name Search to locate microfilms that might be helpful to you in your research.

Once you find a film that you’d like to view, you can order it online at FamilySearch.org/films. If you need help with Online Film Ordering, stop by the FHC and we’ll help. You'll get an e-mail notification when the film arrives.