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Which United States birth, marriage, and death certificates are available online? The answer is that it varies by state and date. . . . What’s a quick way to determine if your state’s records are online?
Few people would argue the value of creating a story about a life lived. In fact, it’s really quite a noble idea to create a story of your life for your descendant. From it, they will likely learn something valuable and endearing from the things you experienced and will get to know you as an individual.
In 2014, we have already indexed over 16 million names from obituaries. And all of this was done while navigating the indexing learning curve for these new projects. Nicely done! Thank you for your willingness to index these amazing records, learn the instructions, and give feedback to create the highest quality indexes possible and make these names and stories searchable online. Fortunately, a few changes have been made recently to make indexing obituaries a little easier.
Obituaries are a treasure trove of information. Almost anyone searching for information about their family will tell you that obituaries are one of the best record sources available for getting great information about a person.
FamilySearch volunteers are amazing! On July 20th and 21st, FamilySearch indexers and arbitrators from around the world joined together to set an international record for the greatest number of indexing participants in a single day!
One of the best ways to honor your ancestors is to visit their graves. Standing amid the headstones, you can often get a sense for the area in which they lived and the legacy they have left for you. A new page on FamilySearch.org makes it much easier for you to discover and celebrate the stories of your ancestors’ lives as you visit the cemeteries where they were laid to rest.
You’ve created family trees in FamilySearch and you have one in Ancestry.com. Now you want coordinate both trees so that you can exchange details between the two trees. How do you keep them both synchronized?
Among the thousands of photos I have been scanning for the past few years, I have accumulated a large number of negatives. Those of you who are a little older may recall that when you took your black and white film to be developed, you received not only prints from your film, but also the negatives. The negatives in my collection date back into the early 1900s. Up until now, I had no way to get a high quality scan from these negatives, some of which are large from the view cameras used at the time they were made. Except for those made after the advent of 35mm cameras, none of the old negatives are a standard size.
We live in a mobile world. You should be able to connect with your ancestors wherever you are. FamilySearch has released two new mobile apps that will make it easy to do just that. With FamilySearch Tree and FamilySearch Memories you can add memories and sources of your relatives on the go. Everything you add will sync with FamilySearch.org, so information will be accessible from any device and will be preserved for future generations. Both apps are free.
FamilySearch Family Tree has been available to everyone since March 2013. Since then, new features and enhancements have been added. During this time, we have discovered some concerns relating to the records of living individuals and to features such as deleting a person or merging records.
