Week 1

Why Use Family Search?

Power of a unified, networked Family Tree

Concerns:

Family Tree is :

How it works:

Important Features:

When your Tree is on your own computer/software:

Where do I Start?

How do we use the Family Tree to find our ancestors and relatives:

Changes:

Removing Information:

Gedcoms

Week 2

Introduction to theFhguide com

Quick Tour Video (5:46 min/sec)

About The Family History Guide

FAQs

About the Projects

Project Resources

Project 1 Goals

1: Navigate

2: View Details

3: Children, Spouses

4: Find, Go To

5: Alternate Views

6: Change Info

7: Add Ancestors

8: Add Sources

9: Find-a-Record

10: Notes

11: Merging

12: Custom Charts

13: Account

14: Solutions Gallery

 

WEEK 3

Project 2 Goals

1: Gather Your Records

2: Gather Records from Others

3: Interview Relatives

4: Browse Memories

5: Prepare Uploads

6: Add and Tag Photos

7: Add Documents

8: Add Stories

9: Write a Life Sketch

10: Add Audio Files

11: Use the Gallery

12: Solutions Gallery

 
Project 3 Goals: Descendants

1: Identify Lines

2: Sourcing Tools

3: Puzzilla

4: RelativeFinder

Project 4 Goals

1: Get Organized

2: Identify a Line

3: Form a Strategy

4: Use FamilySearch Tools (FS)

5: Develop Search Skills

6: Solve Problems

7: Family History Trip

8: FamilySearch Places, Solutions Gallery

Project 5 Goals

1: Learn about Indexing

2: Get Started

3: Index Batches

4: Improve Skills

5: Collaborate with Others

6: Read Difficult Handwriting

7: O-Ancestry World Archives

8: Zoning

 

Project 6 Goals

1: Get Help (FS)

2: Genealogical Societies

3: Collaborate

4: Help Another Person

5: Publish a Family History

6: O-Volunteer

 Project 7 Goals

1: Webinars

2: Tablets and Smartphones

3: Social Media

4: Genealogy Software

5: Create and Upload a Family Tree

Week 4

Project 8 Goals

1: Basic Genetics and Research

2: Learn about DNA Testing

3: Take a DNA Test

4: DNA Matching

5: Ethnicity and Family Relationships

6: DNA Research Tools

7: Adoption and DNA

8: Help with Questions

PART II-Using Records

Week 5- Census Records

Background of Census Taking

Censuses 1790-1840

Censuses 1850-1940

Week 6- Immigration Naturalization

Immigrants Prior to Revolutionary War

Immigration after Revolutionary War

Immigration through the years

Naturalization

Passenger Lists

Finding Immigrants in America

European Sources

Week 7- Military Records

Military in Colonial America

Revolutionary War Records

War of 1812 Records

Civil War Records

          Union

          Confederate

Indian Wars

Spanish American War

WWI

WWII

Korea

Gulf Wars

Week 8- Land Records

Land in Colonial America-State Land States

After the American Revolution-Federal Land States

The Land Granting Process

Locating land Records in a Court House

Tax Records