Tempe Arizona Family History Center/Learning/FamilySearch

As an international nonprofit organization, FamilySearch helps people discover their family. Discover your place in history with Family Tree to preserve your genealogy. Search for your ancestors in millions of historical records. See what others have contributed about your family story. Preserve and share precious family memories.

FamilySearch Capabilities
 * One Unified Tree – FamilySearch created the world's largest shared online family tree with information about 1.2 billion ancestors. Instead of building separate trees, FamilySearch tree builders cooperate to build a shared tree that helps everyone learn more about their common ancestors. Learn more about FamilySearch.
 * Fan Chart – See your ancestors in unique ways including a 7-generation Fan Chart.
 * Search historical records to find ancestors or to find source information about your ancestors. Learn more.
 * Add Sources (birth, death, marriage, census records, etc.) to document information.
 * Add Photos, Stories, Audio Recordings, and Documents of your ancestors and see what others have added.
 * Training – visit The Family History Guide

FamilySearch Tips for Beginners
 * Record Hints – are a quick way to add to your family tree.
 * Format of Dates – Day Month Year (e.g., 4 January 1920)
 * Format of Places – City, County, State, Country (e.g., Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States)
 * FIND vs SEARCH – Find: looking for people already in Family Tree. Search: looking up info in historical records.
 * Find Person Using Husband-Wife Combination – With the Find function, it is usually faster to enter both husband and wife.
 * Correcting Information – When correcting information about an ancestor, document your source. (A change log is kept.)
 * Duplicate Records – If a person has been created multiple times in Family Tree, the duplicate records must be merged. Get help.