Contra Costa County Genealogical Society

FamilySearch

   We had a wonderful lecture about FamilySearch presented by Ralph Severson, the director of the

Oakland Family History Center.  He spoke about their website, familysearch.org and the nine tabs found on the main page:

• Blog
• Indexing
• FamilySearch Centers
• Books
• Catalog
• Genealogies
• Learn
• Records
• Family Tree

He spent majority of the time focused on the last two tabs, Records and Family Tree.  When he spoke of the Records tab, which is the tab that is the main page, he spoke of "above" the line which is where you fill in the name you are searching. He advised now to put in too much information at first.  Once you have results, you can then use filters to narrow down to the person your are looking for.  "Below" the line is where you can browse records. These are not indexed records but have images.

Family Tree was very interesting and he explained how to add your family, though suggested adding only a generation at a time.  It is very important to add sources.

Thank you very much, Ralph!


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