Recently, the website FamilySearch announced that it had added over 200 million new historic records to its already large database. This was announced at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference a few weeks ago. The new records are searchable from the FamilySearch website.
FamilySearch.org is a free website you can use to search for your family history, put together your family tree, and access genealogy records and resources from around the world. The website is a service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. There are birth, marriage, death, census, and church records and indexes available to search through. They offer free classes relating to genealogy, and you can read a monthly list of what classes are currently available. The front page has a section called “What’s New”, which gets updated, and has links that will take you directly to the relevant information. The “News and Events” section, on the other hand, tells you new information relating to changes to the website, and where to find genealogy conferences. FamilySearch is an excellent source of genealogical information.
They recently added over 200 million new historic records to their already huge database. These new records represent 18 different countries, and are in addition to the hundreds of millions of records that FamilySearch put online earlier this year. There now are over 700 million records to be found on the FamilySearch website. There are 53 new, or updated, collections relating to the United States, and over 100 million records from countries in Europe, Scandinavia, and Mexico, giving them the largest international genealogy collection online. There have been additions to the 1910 U.S. Census collection and to individual states’ birth, marriage, and death records archives. FamilySearch is also working on digitizing and publishing federal and state census records, birth, marriage, and death records.
If you have “hit a wall” while working on your family tree, or doing your genealogy research, consider checking out the resources at FamilySearch. The recent addition of so many records means that even if you used this website before, there is a good chance you will find something helpful on your next visit.
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