Orem FamilySearch Center

Orem Family History Training Center A.K.A. Utah South Area Family History Training Center Specializing in Family History and FamilySearch Family Tree Training 

With deep regret we announce that the Family History Training Center in Orem, Utah, is being closed. For over 20 years, we have provided quality training to family history missionaries and genealogy-minded Church members. Our August 5-day class will be our final class. No further registrations can be taken. If you have paid for a class that will not be held, your money will be refunded. The Class Materials page will remain available for a period of time for registered users. However, further updates will not be made and eventually the page will be taken down. We express profound gratitude to the many students, missionaries, and volunteers who made the Family History Training Center successful. You have blessed countless lives, and your influence will continue.



• Five-Day Comprehensive Class • Aug 10 - 14, 2015 (Full, Standby Only)

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Contact, Location &amp; Hours
Director: Jay W. Grant Phone: 801-356-9114 Email: [mailto:ut_southtrainingfacility@ldsmail.net ut_southtrainingfacility@ldsmail.net]

Located at 1075 S. Geneva Rd., in Orem (in the Orem University 3rd Stake Building)

Regular Schedule:


 * Mon: 9 - 5
 * Tue: 9 - 7
 * Wed: 9 - 7
 * Thu: 9 - 7
 * Fri: 9 - 5

See calendar for special dates.

Databases &amp; Software

 * Ancestry.com (Library version)
 * Heritage Quest
 * Footnote.com
 * AmericanAncestors.org
 * Godfrey Memorial Library
 * US Civil War Research Database
 * US Civil War Letters and Diaries
 * Images of the American Civil War
 * FindMyPast
 * TheGenealogist
 * British Library 19th C Newspapers
 * WorldVitalRecords
 * Pedigree Resource File
 * Personal Ancestral File
 * Family Insight
 * RootsMagic
 * Ancestral Quest
 * Legacy

Description of some of the above databases

 * Footnote ( Website )

Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development.

Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate, and upload content.


 * Godfrey Memorial Library ( Website )

Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records.


 * Heritage Quest/ProQuest ( Website )

Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records.

Access to this service will be limited to 1,400 family history centers in North America. Patrons should contact their local family history center to see if this service is available. Family history center directors should contact Family History Center Support with questions.


 * World Vital Records ( Website )

World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day.

Online Training

 * Family Tree Learning Center
 * BYU FH Courses

Useful Links

 * Utah Death Certificates
 * Utah Death Certificates (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
 * FamilySearch
 * FamilySearch Historical Records
 * FamilySearch Get Satisfaction User Forums
 * FamilySearch Indexing
 * newFamilyHistory
 * Linkpendium Utah
 * Cyndi's List Utah
 * Salt Lake County Library
 * FH Library Bookmarks
 * FH Library Catalog
 * BYU FH Library
 * LDS.org
 * LDS.org Family History Topics
 * Logan Utah FamilySearch Library
 * London Family History Centre
 * Oakland California FamilySearch Library
 * Ogden FamilySearch Library
 * Orange County California FamilySearch Library
 * Riverton FamilySearch Library
 * San Diego California FamilySearch Library
 * St George Utah FamilySearch Library
 * Rootsweb
 * Free BMD England
 * US GenWeb Project
 * Online Death Indexes
 * Billion Graves
 * FindaGrave.com
 * Interment.net
 * Ancestor Hunt
 * UVTAGG