Serve a Family History Mission
Discover the joy of helping people find their ancestors while serving a mission focused on family history.
Family history missionaries serve the Lord by providing access to historical records, enabling inspiring journeys that bring joy to all people as they discover, gather, and connect their family—past, present, and future throughout the world.
Learn more about what senior missionary and senior service missionary opportunities are available.
Family history missionaries can serve full-time or part-time: from home, in their community, or around the world.
Learn more about what senior missionary and senior service missionary opportunities are available.
Senior Missionary Opportunities
A senior missionary typically serves 40 or more hours per week and usually lives away from home. We have many meaningful opportunities to serve around the world. Click this link to see videos of family history missionaries talking about their experiences serving away from home.
Use the green arrows to scroll through all our opportunities—Take a look!
Use the green arrows to scroll through all our opportunities—Take a look!
Provide support to a family history area manager or center director working with priesthood leaders and members to further temple and family history work.
Welcome people at FamilySearch Centers and provide inspiring experiences that invite people to discover, gather and connect to their families.
Provide service in all aspects of Family History and Church History by assisting patrons with genealogical research, indexing, and other activities.
Senior Service Missionary Opportunities—Close to Home
Senior Service missionaries live at home, work 8 to 40 hours per week, and serve in their local area for 6 to 24 months. Explore with us the many opportunities we have for you to serve from or near your home. Some of the following mission opportunities are available both full and part time. Click this link to see a video of family history missionaries talking about their experiences serving close to home.
Use the green arrows to scroll through all our opportunities—Take a look!
Use the green arrows to scroll through all our opportunities—Take a look!
Welcome patrons and provide inspiring experiences inviting them to discover, gather, and connect to their families.
Create high-resolution digital images of family histories and the areas where they lived.
Provide service in all aspects of Family History and Church History by assisting patrons with genealogical research, indexing, and other activities.
Senior Service Missionary Opportunities—From Home
Senior Service missionaries serve from home for a minimum of 8 hours a week (typically 12) for 12 months. Using the green arrows, scroll through the many opportunities we have for you to serve from your home.
Click this link to see videos of family history missionaries talking about their experiences serving from home.
Click this link to see videos of family history missionaries talking about their experiences serving from home.
Research places (for example: cities, villages, cemeteries) around the world to improve the coverage and quality of FamilySearch Places
Answer FamilySearch-related questions from patrons who contact FamilySearch via phone, chat, email or social media.
Provide FamilySearch with high-quality language support for specialized projects
Serve with a dynamic, high-level team supporting all aspects of the FamilySearch worldwide community.
Participate in projects that help build the FamilySearch Family Tree and help unite families for eternity by nourishing the temples with names.
Translate documents for the Family History Department. Help make family history more accessible worldwide through your translations.
Serve on various web-based and software development projects under the direction of engineers in the Family History Department.
Ensure FamilySearch Wiki information is complete, accurate, and appropriate by monitoring changes, adding content, and improving user experience.
Discover if any of your ancestors served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. View a timeline of early missionary milestones.
Interested in Serving a Family History Mission?
Fill out the following form, and a family history missionary will contact you to answer your questions! You can also explore the FamilySearch Volunteer page for other service opportunities.