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familysearch.org Main website, This is the place "enhanced" to learn about Family Search. 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, includes Tree, Person, Search and Watch List, 4.Photos, 5.Search and 6.Temple. You must be signed in for most links to work. Most training videos, etc. are with these main parts.

TRAINING for Family Tree


 * The Family Tree Reference Manual/Guide and the Family Tree Quick Start Guide should be the primary sources for information. Also  Family Tree Training
 * Other training found Family History Center Portal and  Family Tree Curriculum
 * 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, then Live Help and is also found in Help Center after clicking Get Help. This is a Help Center page. It consists of A. Product Support, B. Research Assistance, C. Getting Started, D. Learning Center for browsing, E. Search all product support articles and F. Product Support FAQs.

A. Product Support
FamilySearch Account


 * - Quick Start to Your FamilySearch Account 2 page Handout
 * -Quick Start to FamilySearch Account 1:10 minutes

Temple


 * - Quick Start to the Temple 2 page Handout
 * - 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


 * - Finding Records of Your Ancestors in FamilySearch.org 5 page Handout
 * -Quick Start to Searching Records 1:43 minutes

Indexing - Every person matters. Help us in our efforts to input names from historical documents.


 * - Getting Started 30 page Handout
 * - Quick Start to Indexing 3:23 minutes
 * - Talk with local stake or group indexing director
 * - Test Drive and Get Started Try Indexing 2:00 minutes
 * - Download and ICON to use Indexing Tool on your computer 2:00 minutes
 * - Indexing Rollover Activity Time depends on you
 * - Indexing Quick Start 5:27 minutes
 * - Learn how to index a census batch &amp; receive tips to help read the records 2:58 minutes
 * - Share a Batch 1:26 minutes
 * - Indexing: Indicating the Image Type 4:12 minutes
 * - Indexing: Adding Records 2:36 minutes
 * - Indexing: Viewing the Previous or Next Page 3:00 minutes
 * - Learn how to adjust the highlights before you begin indexing 1:50 minutes
 * - Indexing multiple images 2:24 minutes
 * - Indexing multiple records 2:35 minutes
 * - Immigration and Naturalization Records 2:23 minutes
 * - Changing projects – Passenger Lists and Naturalization Paper - depends on you
 * - Improve Handwriting Skills - 5 min Gen, episode 25 4:05 minutes
 * - INDEX LINKING - Introducing familysearch Online Indexing and Linking Tool 30:00 minutes

Family Tree


 * - Quick Start to Family Tree 11 page Handout
 * - 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


 * - Quick Start to FamilySearch Photos and Stories 15 page Handout
 * - Quick Start to Photos 4:04 minutes

B. Research Assistance
1.Ask a specialist-General Research Help, Request Assistance


 * Different choices for requesting assistance from a community of researchers that are ready to assist you with your questions

2.- Research Articles Wiki here - also in Family History Portal

a.Research and Searching WIKI


 * Overview Familysearch Wiki 12:40 minutes
 * Tour of what Wiki offers
 * Searching the Research Wiki 5:50 minutes
 * Wiki tools for research
 * Find an ancestor Using the Wiki
 * Researching FamilySearch Wiki: A Case Study – helps you research ancestors 8:00 minutes

b.Create and/or Edit an Article


 * Wiki – Creating a Wiki Article – a new one 5:42 minutes
 * Wiki – Editing a Wiki Article 6:24 minutes
 * Wiki – Adding Images 6:51 minutes
 * Wiki – Adding Citations 7:12 minutes
 * Wiki – Creating Links – Internal and External, add, chg and remove 4:28 minutes
 * Wiki – Using Templates – for articles 7:23 minutes
 * Wiki – Watching Articles – watch a page 7:32 minutes
 * Help:Conributor Help, a how-to page
 * Cheatsheet table

C. Getting Started with your family history
1. - Discover your story video or start sharing 2:25 minutes

2. - Exploring your tree video or go to your tree 2:50 minutes

3. - Find your ancestors video or search records 2:50 minutes

D. Learning Center

 * Family history articles, classes, videos and guides for genealogy resources by place, skill level, subject, format and language or 5 Minute Videos.
 * Become an online volunteer research consultant! Register today

= 3. Family Tree   =

TREE - your own Family Tree/Fan Chart - choose one or the other.

 * From here you can see your ancestors or descendants or click on any person to go to their person page for details, photos and stories, 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.
 * Tree amd Person share Search, Watch, History and Help Others. They are covered under Person.

HELP OTHERS - Log in to help them
= 4. 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.

= 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
 * How to submit community tree 30 page Family Tree Release Notes, page 10, 11 and 12

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

WIKI - Quick link to Research Wiki

 * - repeating quick link found here, see above for videos, handouts

= 6. Temple =


 * Shows list of Reserved, Shared, Printed and Opportunities of those in your tree that can be reserved.
 * Legend of stage of those reserved, shared, printed, etc.
 * A Reference Guide (LDS Version), Chapter 11 gives more guidelines