FamilySearch Family Tree Now Provides Ability to Document Same-Sex Family Relationships

The FamilySearch Family Tree now provides the ability to document same-sex family relationships, including same-sex marriages and same-sex adoptions, because of their historical value as genealogical records. Read the official questions and answers here.

RootsTech London

Click the image above to review the video archive for RT London.

Your next learning opportunity!

Visit this link to see MyHeritage classes available on line.

NEW FamilySearch Family Tree Hub

Check out this link.  You can learn how to use the FamilySearch Family Tree, how a shared family tree works, and how to add to the tree on FamilySearch. You can also find easy ways to search for records, tips and tricks for finding family information, and more.

Watch London RootsTech online!

Click on the photo and scroll to the bottom for a link to watch London RootsTech online.
October 24 - 26, 2019

How we should use FamilySearch Family Tree. . .in the opinion of the Riverton Family History Library

Read more here.

Learn how to calculate relationships.

Click chart to read FamilySearch Blog article.

Record Searches Easier with New Tool!—Now You Can See Similar Historical Records

New at FamilySearch on June 24

Click on the image above to see new search features beginning on June 24. 

New Records on Family Search

Learn about new records availability.

       More than 75% of indexed records are English language.   The most common language in the church today is Spanish.  There is not only a great need for indexed Spanish records, but every other language in the world.
        You are invited to come to the Rigby Family History center this summer and learn to read handwritten records.  This skill is the first step to learning to index foreign language records.  Come to the Center beginning June 5 to learn the skill of reading handwriting.   Click here for more information.

Click here to sign up for the class. More details here.

MAKE History

Click above to check out ways to make family history using photos, videos, art, and more.

Is Your Family in the updated Digital Library?

Learn about it here.

Check out the new FamilySearch discovery experiences

Gathering is for Everyone!

“The work of gathering Heavenly Father’s family is not just for young people, and it is not just for grandparents. It is for everyone. We are all gatherers.”

(Henry B. Eyring, "Gathering the Family of God," Ensign or Liahona, May 2017, 22)

Learn to be a better "Gatherer"  by attending our Beginning Family History classes starting on April 1 and April 4. 
See details here.  Click here to save a spot in one of the classes.

Beginning Family History Classes

Beginning Family History classes start on April 1 and April 4. 
Click here to save a spot in one of the class.
See details here.

Another Fabulous RootsTech

We hope you were able to find your cousins during roots tech, whether you attended in person or online.  We found some of ours among the 10,000 people who attended on Saturday. 

Did you know the conference syllabi are available for you to read and study?  This link will take you to a list where you can choose what you want to learn.  You might want to download them for study later.  Enjoy!

Check out the new Temple and Family History Consultant resource page under the Help pull-down list on Family Search.  It is the bottom link called "Helper Resources." Use the image link to go to the page.

Follow the Brethren

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Link to view the meeting.

Be My Valentine!

Celebrate Valentine's Day by taking an ancestral couple to the temple to be sealed for time and eternity. Happy Valentine's Day!

Have you heard about Famicity?

Learn how to use Famicity with FamilySearch - Create a Private Family Social Network.   Famicity allows you to create a private place for your family to connect and share current event and those of the past.

2019 Roots Tech sponsored by FamilySearch Feb 27-Mar 2

You don't need to go to Salt Lake City to experience Roots Tech!  Selected sessions are live streamed every day.  Here is the schedule.  Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from the best!

Have you tried Ordinances Ready?

Indexing Event

Click image for information about the upcoming indexing event on January 15.

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