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Carol Lou Hill

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I created this video to help show the Historical Image Search feature on FamilySearch. It's a great way to find new records/sources on your ancestors in the over 4 billion unindexed digitized images. Please try it and comment if you find a new record.

https://www.screencast.com/t/lM8D30rabE

https://youtu.be/1n82CTFPvHQ

@All Temple & Family History Consultants​ 

User15736756526604870612

Very helpful THANK YOU - great work! rr

FindleyKaren1

Wow! This has been life changing for me! I have accidently come across the images by googling the town or county and finding a book and it took me to family search, but I couldn't figure out how to get there by using family search directly. I never put together that this was in images. I thought images were tagged historical photos that people put in. I kept going to "books". Having used Mircofilm before, I understood right away how it works, but I was clumsy at the navigational tools. Also, I didn't realize I could attach! Thank you!

Carol Lou Hill

I’m glad it helped. You are welcome

Chris Schmink

@Carol Lou Hill​  I finally got a chance to watch this, and really appreciate some details you pointed out. I haven't paid enough attention to the black background/white letter images at the beginning of a film before, mostly just focusing on the title if at all. I realize I've often just assumed that the listing for the film was correct, and I then just dove into the actual record images themselves without looking at the white-on-black background images at the beginning. You pointing out that those images at the beginning of the film actually show that it's continued from a different film was very helpful, particularly because the film is listed as vital records (marriage), not military records, and that the marriage records don't show up until later in the film. Scrolling down to find the white-on-black background images is, of course, very helpful for finding the various sections in a film too - they can be easily spotted on a quick scroll down through the images even with a large number of images on a film. But I'd never run across (or at least noticed) a film that had more groups/sections of images than what was listed in the description (in this case three groups instead of only the two supposedly in the film). I wonder how much has been missed because we figured we'd seen what was on the film and didn't realize there was an additional group of records that wasn't even listed. Great points. Thanks.

--Chris

Cathy Pearce Anderegg

Great job

Carol Lou Hill

Thank you.

Carol Lou Hill

Thanks for your thoughts. I know exactly what you mean about possibly missing something. I thought that was a good example of how to be careful. I'm guilty of that as well.

User15889850922149897471

Ms. Hill,

Your video on "How to Search for Images....." was great! and I truly learned a great deal....I've just gotten back into working on my families genealogy since my retirement this year...and didn't realize how confusing it could be....thank you for your video...I'm not quite has afraid to keep going forward!!

Kimberleigh "Kc" Leonard

Carol Lou Hill

Thanks. I'm glad it helped. Congratulations on your retirement.

IngeAnnaDanaher

@Carol Lou Hill​ 

Very useful video and I will share with our Ward. Last week I found your video on Merging Duplicates which was extremely helpful to members of our Ward. I shared it during our weekly Ward FH Zoom meeting. We choose a topic each week and last Sunday's was getting your mind around the new Merging Duplicates screen Thank you for sharing your instructions. Especially making them clear and simple to follows.

Carol Lou Hill

I’m so glad it helped. Let me know if you need anything.

IngeAnnaDanaher

I just posted and asked for help on how to get records from Ancestry across to FamilySearch without manually entering each and without creating heaps of duplicates. I have a feeling there isn't a simple way as I have done a bit of research on the topic but would be great to get your response to my question in the Consultant's forum

 

FindleyKaren1

I use a little app called recordseek. I'm not very tech savvy, but it's in my bookmark bar at the top of my browser. When I'm on a record in ancestry, I click on recordseek and then I follow the prompts. At some point you put in who the person in family search that you want to attach the record to, I copy and paste the PID# into it and it pastes the records as well as the url and reference. I don't know if I'm describing how it works accurately, but it's recordseek.

Carol Lou Hill

I love that app as well. Here's a video I created about it. It's awesome. https://youtu.be/GVs_9B1423k

Carol Lou Hill

I saw your question in another group. There is a way to download your Ancestry tree as a Gedcom, and then upload it to FamilySearch. I don't love this, because it does create duplicates which is what we are really trying to discourage. I do have this video that shows how to connect the two and share information both ways between FamilySearch and Ancestry. Here's a video to show how to share between Ancestry and FamilySearch. https://youtu.be/rWrEBak2YPA

And this one is how to download ya Gedcom from Ancestry.com https://youtu.be/MWm5E-ShvVA. I will look into uploading the Gedcom to FamilySearch.

Carol Lou Hill

Here's an article I found about uploading your Gedcom. I might have to try it myself. Let me know how it goes. https://www.familysearch.org/help/salesforce/viewArticle?urlname=Uploading-GEDCOM-Files-and-Copying-the-Information-to-Family-Tree&lang=en

IngeAnnaDanaher

Thanks @Karen Findley​ and @Carol Lou Hill​ Just watched the Video so will start using this. Great resource

IngeAnnaDanaher

@Carol Lou Hill​ Thanks Carol. I fully agree re not adding duplicates and in my lesson I focused on using the tools provided in Ancestry to transfer between the two. Thanks for the links. I will watch your video as well and share with the Ward.