Using Ancestry Card Catalog to Fix Missing Data

 Earlier today, Michael Dindinger sent out an email suggesting a tutorial by Lisa Lisson. However, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Below, Ancestry Card Catalog and other major sites are used to find missing family data.

Finding a Needle in a Haystack on FamilySearch

At his workshop in February, Michael Dindinger presented a workshop on FamilySearch records. One of the less well understood aspects of doing this involves finding unindexed records.

As of November 2019, there were 1.73 billion digital images published only in the FamilySearchorg Catalog. This compares to 1.4 billion images published in the searchable FamilySearch Historical Records Collections. As you can see from these numbers, there are many records in the FamilySearch Catalog that are waiting to be indexed. Just because a record is not indexed, it does not mean that the record is not searchable. True, indexing makes the records more readily available but unindexed records have been searched by genealogical researchers for years.

How To Find & Use Google Books For Genealogy Research

The following material has been abbreviated and edited from the original posting on Lisa Lisson’s blog ‘Are You My Cousin?’ Michael Dindinger thought people might benefit from another perspective and added detail to our original Genealogy Research Using Google Books.

Genealogy researchers love books. Lisa is no different, but know what she (and many others of us) love more? Free Books! It's time to start exploring Google Books!

Czech Videos for Genealogy

In addition to the items in Michael Dindinger's post, here, you might find the two videos below to be helpful

Genealogy Research Using Google Books

I'm a big fan of Google Books. With a Google account, you can save Google ebooks to your library. The screenshot, above, shows what's currently in my own Google library. It is really pretty simple to use Google Books and you don't even to have a free account unless you want to keep stuff in the Google "cloud." Best of all, none of this takes up any storage space.

Researching US Census Problems

Sometimes, our ancestors drop out easily when we search for them on one of the big sites such as FamilySearch or Ancestry. Sometimes they don't. The video, below, has a number of good suggestions about those thorny census problems.

Using Google for Genealogy

The ubiquitous search engine of Google, while itself isn't a Genealogy tool, is extremely useful for genealogy research. The video, below, shows how you can use Google for genealogy web searching. Among other things, the narrator explains how to directly search genealogy sites such as FamilySearch using Google.

Video of Photoshop Restoration of Old Photos

This is one sort of post we could make for our members:

This is a fairly good tutorial

Would people like to see more like this?