Cemetary
Hi,
When my husband and I travel, I often see cemeteries and wonder if we have any ancestors who might be buried there. I know the older family history program had a way to see who was buried in a certain cemetery. Is there a way with the FamilySearch program to put in a cemetery location and see who in your family might be buried there? This would be especially helpful when we travel to Europe.
Also, my friend was wondering if there is an easy way to see when your family members joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I know in the activities part of family search you have a lot of fun things to see about our ancestors. Would it be possible to include these two activities?
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
SLWithers
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@SLWithers is there a way with the FamilySearch program to put in a cemetery location and see who in your family might be buried there?
Sort of and not really ... While the Places Database does allow specifically entering Cemetery as a place - it is probably not anywhere near complete enough to make searching useful. Also when searching the Tree there is no option to search for Life Event> Burial. You could certainly search for a nearby place - dropping the cemetery name - in the Death field - but this is not the Idea you are suggesting. There are other dedicated burial/cemetery sites which you can search. Great Idea.
my friend was wondering if there is an easy way to see when your family members joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The baptism ordinance by which people may join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - contains the date and is easily viewable with a member account on the Ordinances tab. There are also some membership Census collections which I believe are searchable. But there isn't an app which would tell you the earliest member - or all members - joining in a family line - as your/friend Idea suggests. Great Idea.
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I might suggest importing the familysearch family tree data into a third party program, such as Ancestral Quest or RootsMagic and using their "focus/filtering' capability to group records by location.
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Since most people travel with cell phones and not laptops, the function for doing this appeared first in the Family Tree mobile app.
Open the app and click on the More menu. Then choose Map My Ancestors. You can then search for a place such as Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah:
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You can then zoom in on the map to see all the events with a place name of Mount Pleasant:
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The results will depend on how the place names are entered into Family Tree. But if the burial place did include the cemetery and is linked to the standard that includes the cemetery, you can zoom right down to he cemetery, click on the number on the map, and get a list, in this case, of the eight people who are buried in the cemetery:
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Again like all computer routines, if the information is not in Family Tree, the app can't find or use it. So before your trip, you are going to need to go through your fan chart and make sure everyone's burial place is included correctly if known.
Under settings for this routine it states: "By default, the app includes 6 generations of your ancestors, including their children. Anyone you view is also added to the map." In other words, it includes six generations directly back from you, all children of those ancestors, and everyone on your Recents list.
I'm not aware of an equivalent function on the website itself.
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Regarding seeing when family members joined the church, if you go to the FamilySearch website and choose Activities then on the map that comes up choose Converts, you will get a map showing your convert ancestors or at least ancestors who were baptized sometime past eight years old and where they were born:
On the page about them you can get to from here, only the place of an ordinance is shown, which is never recorded for living baptisms so it seems to alway just show Not Available. But you can see all the memories on their profile or copy their ID number and use that to go to their full Family Tree page.
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You can also use the Activity to see immigrant ancestors, where they came from and where they went:
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