A User’s Guide To The New FamilySearch

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A User’s Guideto the New FamilySearch FamilySearch is a trademark of Intellectual Reserve, Inc.Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.Mac OS is a registered trademark and Safari is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.Mozilla and Firefox are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.Netscape Navigator is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation.Flash , Adobe , and Reader areregistered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc.Published byThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSalt Lake City, Utah 2007 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.All rights reservedPrinted in the United States of AmericaEnglish approval: 8/02. 36798

A User’s Guide to the NewFamilySearch ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to the New FamilySearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8What the New FamilySearch Does. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 amilySearch Lets You See What Information the Church Has about You and YourFAncestors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8FamilySearch Helps You Work with Others on Shared Family Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8FamilySearch Lets You Add New Information and Make Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9FamilySearch Helps You Do Temple Ordinances for Your Ancestors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Protecting the Privacy of Living People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Registering to Use the New FamilySearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Information That You Will Need to Provide When You Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Protecting Your Personal Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Registering for the New FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Signing In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Handling Forgotten Sign-in Names and Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Finding a Forgotten Sign-in Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Changing a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Changing Your User Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Obtaining Personal Help to Learn FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Using Help Features in FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Using FamilySearch for Someone Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Information Needed to Help Someone Else Use FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Signing in to Help Someone Else. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Sending Feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2007 IRI

Chapter 2. Navigating and Finding Information in FamilySearch . . . . 24Understanding the Home Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24How the Home Page Is Organized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24What Each Option on the Home Page Does. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Viewing Your Family Information in Different Ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Reading a Family Pedigree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Understanding the Family Pedigree Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Showing and Hiding Symbols on the Family Pedigree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Using the Family Group Record View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Changing Your View Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Temporarily Switching from One View Screen to Another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Changing Your Default View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Moving Around on the Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Moving Around on the Family Pedigree Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Displaying a Different Family on the Family Group Record View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Returning to a Previously Viewed Individual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Switching to Other Spouses and Other Parents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Seeing Details about Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Seeing Details about Individuals on the Family Pedigree Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Seeing Details about Individuals on the Family Group Record View. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Types of Information in the Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Seeing Contributors, Notes, and Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Understanding the Names of Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Seeing Contributors, Notes, and Sources about Individuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Seeing Contributors, Notes, and Sources about Marriage Events and Families . . . . . 44Seeing a Contributor’s Contact Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Seeing Other Opinions about Families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Searching for Ancestors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Search Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45What if You Can’t Find Someone?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Printing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Chapter 3. Adding Information about Individuals and Families. . . . . . 50Whom Should I Add to FamilySearch and Do Ordinances for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Protecting Information about Living People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51When to Add Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Using Personal Ancestral File and Similar Computer Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 2007 IRI

Does FamilySearch Check the Accuracy of My Information?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Types of Information That You Enter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Clarification of Dates and Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Entering Characters from the World’s Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Entering the Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using Data Entry Templates for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cyrillic Names . . . 53Adding Individuals to Families in Your Family Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Part 1. Indicate the Individual to Be Added. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Part 2. Enter the New Individual or Find the Existing Individual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Part 3. Review and Clarify the Information about a New Individual. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Adding Information about Marriages and Families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Adding Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Adding Individuals and Families Who Are Not Connected to Your Family Line. . . . . . . . . 68Adding Individuals Who Are Not Connected to Your Family Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Adding Families Who Are Not Connected to Your Family Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Chapter 4. Correcting Information about Individuals and Families. . . 70Types of Changes That Can Be Made. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Changes That You Can Make to Information That You Contribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Other Types of Changes That You Can Make . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Contributing Corrections with a GEDCOM File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Correcting Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Correcting Information from Church Membership Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Claiming Information That You Contributed before FamilySearch Was Available . . 72 Correcting Information Whose Contributor Is “LDS Church Temple Records”. . . . . 73 Correcting and Adding Information about Individuals Who Are Already inFamilySearch, Including Notes and Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Correcting and Adding to Information about Marriages and Families, IncludingNotes and Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Disputing Information about Individuals and Marriages and Removing Disputes. . . . . . . . 77The Purposes of Disputing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77What Happens When You Dispute Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Disputing Information about an Individual or Couple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 isputing That an Individual Was a Member of a Family, or Indicating That anDIndividual Never Existed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Removing a Dispute That You Entered about an Individual or Couple’s Marriage . . 80 emoving a Dispute That You Entered to Indicate That an Individual Was Not a MemberRof a Family or to Indicate That an Individual Never Existed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 2007 IRI

Deleting Information from FamilySearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Deleting Information about Individuals and Marriages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Deleting Individuals from FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Removing an Individual from a Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Working with Other Contributors to Remove Incorrect Information from FamilySearch. . 83Chapter 5. Transferring Genealogical Information from Your PersonalComputer to FamilySearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84What Is GEDCOM?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Recommendations for Contributing GEDCOM Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Using Personal Ancestral File and Similar Computer Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Features to Look For. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Using Merge Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Deciding When to Contribute a GEDCOM File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Exporting Information from FamilySearch for Use in Your Personal Computer . . . . 87Deciding What Information to Include in My GEDCOM File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Contributing GEDCOM Files Larger Than 1MB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Understanding What Will Happen to Your GEDCOM File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Information from Your GEDCOM File That Gets Added to FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . 88What Determines How Quickly My GEDCOM File Is Processed?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Reasons That FamilySearch Might Not Be Able to Add Your GEDCOM File. . . . . . . . 89Creating GEDCOM Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Contributing GEDCOM Files to FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Seeing the Results of a GEDCOM File That You Previously Contributed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Chapter 6. Combining Duplicate Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Why FamilySearch Contains Duplicate Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 What to Do When an Individual Has Duplicate Records in FamilySearch. . . . . . . . . 93Why You Should Combine an Individual’s Duplicate Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Combining Duplicate Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Finding and Combining Duplicate Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Other Ways to Find Duplicate Family Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Separating Records That Were Combined Incorrectly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99If Your Family Line Has Many Duplicate Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100How FamilySearch May Display Your Family Line Differently after You CombineDuplicate Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101What to Do If Information about an Individual Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 2007 IRI

What to Do If a Family Line Changes or Disappears. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Finding Out If Someone Else Combined an Individual’s Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Understanding Why FamilySearch Does Not Combine Information about SomeIndividuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Reasons That FamilySearch Cannot Combine Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 What to Do If FamilySearch Cannot Combine Information about Individuals. . . . 104Tips for Deciding If Two Individuals Are the Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Comparing Family Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Comparing Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Comparing Dates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Comparing Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints perform temple ordinances for their ancestors . FamilySearch makes it easy to do the following: See what information the Church has about you and your ancestors . Work with others on shared family lines . Add new information and make corrections .

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