hidden treasures in family search: 15 feb 2011
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A Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2011 presentation given at Olympia. Highlights of resources for the British Isles found at FamilySearch.org.TRANSCRIPT
Hidden Treasures in
In the last five years FamilySearch has changed from a microfilm processing organization to a digital image processing organization.
Last year FamilySearch published about 80 million images online for free access to all.
Many times that number will be published in 2011.
Click on “Get Started”
You may need to scroll down to the country of interest.
Records page layout
Post 1837 Marriages in Parish Registers
Place Search
More than parish names:
Julia Coult emigrated to America and told her children she was from Dorsey, Essex. Printed books did not show Dorsey as a place in England.
A woman from Essex explained to me that she grew up in Tolleshunt Darcy and everyone there called it Dorsey.
Search results and map location
Search results and map location
Point at the place icon next to the parish name to see additional place name references.
Click on the “Layers” tab to see additional options for the map.
Layers
The default is to show county and parish boundaries.
You can select any of the listed jurisdictions to be shown.
Search results and map location
Search results and map location
Scroll down for record start dates
Click on the link to update the map
Four options for additional info
Radius options are ¼, ½, 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 miles
Move your pointer to the coloured circle and a “Click me for options” link will appear.
Move your pointer to the coloured area and a “Click me for options” link will appear.
Click on the diocese link for a new map layer and more details
Several lists can be generated for you now
Several lists can be generated for you now
FamilySearch Community Trees
Search here or use the “Advanced Search” button.
Select a database by clicking on the down arrow in the “All Trees” field.
Sources details are always included
• [S3] Pedigrees with Index of London Citizens, abt. 1600-1800 (filmed 1954), Boyd, Percival, compiler, (Microfilm copy of manuscripts at Somerset House, London. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954), FHL microfilms 94,515-94,593., vol. 231 no. 23003, FHL microfilm 94577.
Place Collection Individuals
Australia South Australia Community Trees 257,754
Australia Victoria Community Trees 123,818
British Knowles Collection: Jews of the British Isles 104,143
British Peerage, Gentry and Colonial American Connections 212,624
England Bedfordshire, Eaton Bray Community Tree 18,817
England London: Residents of London 209,983
England Norfolk Visitations, 1563 23,098
India Punjab, Moga District 10,454
Scotland Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae 88,274
Wales Records Primarily of the Nobility and Gentry 258,209
FAMILYTECH
http://familytech.familysearch.org/
5 Topics and the option to “Search”
Software > Image Editing
Devices > Cameras
Internet > Social Network
Each tab becomes a drop down list when you point at it. Click an option for detailed topics.
DIGITAL BOOKShttps://www.familysearch.org/
Click on the “Library Catalog” link
Click on the down arrow in the “Search” options area
Select the “Last names” option then type in a surname
Pay special attention to the “availability” line for “Digital Images”
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php
Click on the book title
A number of options allow you to search, enlarge, save and print
