An obituary is a brief biography of a person's life, published by newspapers or funeral homes. You can find obituaries on FamilySearch in several ways. Try your search in several places on FamilySearch.

As you come to understand the difference between “record” and “image", you can avoid confusion in your research.

Multiple names can share a surname field of the United States Census, 1950.

In Family Tree, you can write a life history to summarize a person's life. The life history appears on the Details tab of the person page. When you write a life history, you can choose to have it appear on the About tab instead of the computer-generated history.

Easily update your FamilySearch profile to reflect your current information, including your name, Contact ID, location, and more. You can also manage privacy settings to control what others can see.

The message, "These generations do not connect through a patrilineal line," appears for one of two reasons.

The primary name or person in a historical record refers to the person involved in the event.

In some record collections, you can fully edit the indexed information for a historical record.

Steps you can take to start a Splashtop remote control session on your device with a FamilySearch Support staff member.

Only a limited number of users can see information about living people in Family Tree.