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Heather R Jacobs

www.familysearch.org

 

Connect While Social Distancing: Join the FamilySearch Live Community

(see links below):

• Instagram live event Tuesday, April 7th at 11:00 a.m. MDT
  • Rhonna Farrer - The Power of Stories
• Instagram live event Thursday, April 9th at 11:00 a.m. MDT
  • Jeff Hacking - Family Tree App
• Facebook live event Wednesday, April 8th at 4:00 p.m. MDT
  • Ron Tanner - FamilySearch



Blog: https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-live-community/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familysearch/channel/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/familysearch/

 

@Events - Near and Far​ 

Heather R Jacobs

Instagram for Tuesday:

Rhonna Farrer - click here for video

• Wonderfully packed of great ideas on The Power of Stories
  • If you don't know where to start on family history, your story is a good place
    • Stories help us connect
    • Stories help us learn
    • Stories provide healing & resiliency
  • Keep it real. The good stuff is also nice, but the real things are person.
  • Tell the story in a way that works for you.
    • Audio
    • Photo's
    • Written
    • https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/52stories/
  • We are all a part of each other's stories.

 

Heather R Jacobs

Facebook for Wednesday:

Ron Tanner - click here for video stream link

• Sneak Peaks!
  • Fan Chart on the computer will soon be able to print by choices (country, sources, stories, etc.). We just found out last week that we can make the fan chart an option in the mobile app!
  • Merging will soon be a 3 step process to slow down and make it easier to navigate.

1. Are these two people the same?
   1. Select what you want to save.
   2. Preview of what the merge will look like before Finish Merge

• Discussed the option of finding out how you are related to the contacts that add to the tree.
• Discussed "Unfinished Attachments" in sources can be a great resource for finding missing people. This link occurs when not everyone is tagged in the source.
• FamilySearch Stats:

1. Total Family Tree Persons = 1.26 Billion
   1. Added persons per month = 6.9 Million
   2. Total Sources = 1.54 Million
   3. Sources created per month = 38 Million
   4. Total Memories = 44 Million
   5. Added Memories per month = 1 Million

• For latest updates: https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-updates/ Click Subscribe. Don't forget to subscribe to the FamilySearch Blog that is a great resource too! https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/

Heather R Jacobs

Instagram for Thursday

Jeff Hawkins - Web User Interface Manager for Family Tree (the Tree on FamilySearch)

click here for video stream link (there were technical difficulties so begin at the 9 minute mark - it should be up later today)

• The Family Tree is currently in 10 languages
  • Adding 21 additional languages
• More discussion on Merging (See Facebook notes on Ron Tanner) - will be released today
  • Click here for article on Reason Statements" in Family Tree
• More discussion on printing the Fan Chart in multiple views (see Facebook notes on Ron Tanner) - coming soon!
• Don't forget to send in your feedback when on FamilySearch (button at the bottom of the main page). FamilySearch relies on this feedback.