☙ In this, the latest in my series of posts about doing genealogy from home, I hope you'll find at least one new direction in which to take your family history research or skills. ☙
Opening a free FamilySearch account is a bit like opening up a box of different tools that will help you to be more productive in tracing, recording, sharing, and researching your family tree. Even seasoned users of the website are constantly being surprised by the range of things they can use it for.
Once you’ve signed up, you can
☙ Add your relatives
to the Family Tree. This aims to be one unified record of the human family. You’ll probably have some ancestors already
featured in it, because of the records FamilySearch have collected from around
the world. Build your part of the tree
around those existing records
☙ Find more records for your family and attach them to your tree. Use the Catalog to identify resources to help build your research, as well as the suggestions that appear in your family’s entries in the Tree.
☙ Upload your family photographs, stories, memories, and sound clips
☙ Print off fan charts and decorative trees to display your research
☙ Read digitised books from many sources, available through the Digital Library. Browse or search them for your family.
☙ Set up alerts to be notified when another FamilySearch user makes changes to an entry on the tree that you’re interested in
☙ Use the Activities section to engage young people in family history
☙ Improve your research skills using the resources found in the Research Wiki and Learning Centre – all available via the Help menu, where you'll also find how-to videos for using the website itself
☙ Join the FamilySearch Community and get answers to your research questions as well as collaborating with other genealogists
☙ Add to the available records by volunteering as an indexer
☙ Download the Family Tree mobile app for those unexpected genealogy moments or research trips
And this is by no means a comprehensive list of what you can accomplish. Explore the site and discover for yourself just how it can help your family tree to grow.
☙ Find more records for your family and attach them to your tree. Use the Catalog to identify resources to help build your research, as well as the suggestions that appear in your family’s entries in the Tree.
☙ Upload your family photographs, stories, memories, and sound clips
☙ Print off fan charts and decorative trees to display your research
☙ Read digitised books from many sources, available through the Digital Library. Browse or search them for your family.
☙ Set up alerts to be notified when another FamilySearch user makes changes to an entry on the tree that you’re interested in
☙ Use the Activities section to engage young people in family history
☙ Improve your research skills using the resources found in the Research Wiki and Learning Centre – all available via the Help menu, where you'll also find how-to videos for using the website itself
☙ Join the FamilySearch Community and get answers to your research questions as well as collaborating with other genealogists
☙ Add to the available records by volunteering as an indexer
☙ Download the Family Tree mobile app for those unexpected genealogy moments or research trips
And this is by no means a comprehensive list of what you can accomplish. Explore the site and discover for yourself just how it can help your family tree to grow.
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