Wiki Wizard Videos

The Wiki Wizard is a collection of 5 minute videos on how to use the Wiki and research in different countries. Classes give instructions on how to use the Research Wiki in finding your ancestors.

How to Use the Wiki
Six 5-minute classes explaining how to utilize the Research Wiki for your genealogical research.
 * Wiki Genealogy by Locality
 * Learning About Records With the Wiki
 * Research Strategies on the Wiki
 * Wiki Online Genealogy Records
 * Research Skills Lessons on the Wiki
 * Foreign Language Helps on the Wiki

Brazil Research With the Research Wiki Videos
Brazil Genealogy Research Using the Wiki – Video Series
 * The Brazil Main Page
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Brazil: Home Records
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Brazil: U.S. Records
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Brazil: Immigration and Citizenship Records
 * Brazil Wiki State Pages
 * Reading Brazilian Records in Portuguese
 * Writing for Records in Portuguese
 * Brazil Search Strategy: A Case Study

Wiki Wizard in France with the FamilySearch Research Wiki Videos

 * France Research With the Wiki Part 1 of 8: The France Main Page
 * Learn how to use the France Genealogy main page of the FamilySearch Research Wiki as an index of links to genealogical record articles, online records, and articles about genealogical research in the different departments of France.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 2 of 8: A France Department Page
 * Learning to use your France department page on the FamilySearch Research Wiki to access church and civil registration records by using the online databases, FamilySearch.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 3 of 8: France Finding Town of Origin
 * To use the records of France, you must know the exact town where your ancestor lived. Learn how to search for that information in family records, vital records, census records, cemetery records, obituaries, military records, Social Security records, and immigration and citizenship records. Learn how to find the correct department for your French town.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 4 of 8: Using France Department Archives Online
 * Most of the civil registration and church records of France are digitized and published online by the Departmental Archives of each France department. Learn how to navigate French departmental archives to locate birth, marriage, and death records after 1792 for your French ancestor.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 5 of 8: Reading Records in French and Latin
 * Learn about links to courses and research tools available in the FamilySearch Research Wiki to teach you how to read the French and Latin vocabulary found in church records and civil registration records.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 6 of 8: A French Case Study: Civil Registration
 * Watch a demonstration of strategically searching France civil registration of birth, marriage, and death records, found in department archives, to compile the information about a family.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 7 of 8: A French Case Study: Church Records
 * Watch a demonstration of strategically searching France church records of baptism, marriage, and burial records, found in department archives, to compile the information about a family.


 * France Research With the Wiki Part 8 of 8: Writing for Records in French
 * Learn how to write letters in French to a genealogical society, a professional researcher, a civil registration office, an archive, or a local priest, to request genealogical information, with the help of the French Letter Writing Guide available in the FamilySearch Research Wiki.

Germany Research using the Wiki

 * Germany Genealogy Research Using the Wiki - Video Series - Thirteen 5-minute classes
 * The Germany Genealogy Main Page
 * Finding Your German Town of Origin in Home Records
 * Finding Your German Town of Origin in U.S. Records
 * Finding German Origin: Naturalization and Immigration
 * Finding German Town of Origin in German Records
 * Germany Maps and Gazetteers
 * Germany Wiki Province Pages
 * Finding Aids for German Records
 * Germany Indexed Records
 * Reading Original German Records
 * Germany Online Civil Registration
 * Germany Online Church Records
 * Germany Archives
 * Writing for German Records

Italy Research using the Wiki

 * Italy Genealogy Research Using the Wiki - Video Series - Thirteen 5-minute classes
 * The Italy Main Page
 * An Italy Province Page
 * Finding a Birth Certificate Online
 * Finding a Marriage Certificate Online
 * Finding a Death Certificate Online
 * Writing for a Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate
 * Finding a Church Baptism Record Online, Lesson
 * Finding a Church Baptism Record Online, Case Study
 * Finding a Church Marriage Record Online
 * Finding a Church Death/Burial Record Online
 * Writing to a Priest for Church Records
 * Finding Your Town of Origin in Italy: Home Records
 * Finding Your Town of Origin in Italy: U S Records
 * Finding a Town of Origin:Immigration and Naturalization

Mexico Research using the Wiki

 * Mexico Genealogy Research Using the Wiki - Video Series - Eleven 5-6 minute classes
 * The Mexico Genealogy Main Page
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Mexico with Home Records'''
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Mexico with U.S. Records
 * U. S. Immigration and Citizenship Records
 * Mexico Wiki State Pages
 * Reading Mexican Records in Spanish
 * Mexico Civil Registration
 * A Mexico Civil Registration Case Study
 * Mexico Church Records
 * A Mexico Church Records Case Study
 * Writing for Records in Spanish

Philippines Research using the Wiki

 * Philippines Genealogy Research Using the Wiki - Video Series - Seven 5-6 minute classes
 * The Philippines Main Page
 * A Philippines Province Page
 * Finding Your Philippines Town of Origin
 * Finding a Philippines Birth or Marriage Record
 * A Philippines Family Case Study
 * Reading Philippine Records in Spanish and Latin
 * Writing to the Philippines for Records

Poland with the FamilySearch Research Wiki Videos
Poland Genealogy Research Using the Wiki--Video Series--Eighteen 5-6 minute classes
 * The Poland Genealogy Main Page
 * Poland Maps ESSENTIAL: MUST WATCH!
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Poland: Home Records
 * Identifying Your Ancestor in Poland: U.S. Records
 * U. S. Immigration and Citizenship
 * Poland Civil Registration and Church Records
 * Poland Gazetteers
 * Poland Province (Voivodeship) Pages
 * Poland Finding Aids
 * Poland Online Databases
 * Poland FamilySearch Collections
 * Poland PRADZIAD and National Archives
 * Poland Church Archives
 * Writing for Poland Records
 * Poland and Reading Languages
 * Search Strategy and Poland Case Study
 * Ortsfamilienbücher for Prussian Poland
 * Jewish Research in Poland