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A Mormon (LDS) Goldmine: http://familysearch.org
Digitized
Microfilm
Start search here:
- Digitize all 2.5M rolls by ca. 2020: now 7% done
- 150K transcribers index 1 million names/day for
the love of it – and early access.
Top right of
http://udel.edu/~tdoherty
http://udel.edu/~tdoherty
You can index too
- Register for a FamilySearch Account to get free
access to more data and images and (when available)
access to FamilySearch FamilyTree of all humankind.
Blog/Videos of new search
[Family Tree]
International Genealogy
Index (igi)
- On-line contributions (some good, some not)
- Transcribed original documents, e.g. census
and church, such as English parish registers
- Can include Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File
Library
Catalog
- Identify available records of world towns on microfilm and order on-line
- Visit Family History Center to view/copy microfilms on paper or flash drive
Download this handout in color from udel.edu/~tdoherty/familysearch13s.pdf
familysearch.org initial web page
1.Click “Match all terms exactly”
exactly” 2.Use Wildcards */? 3.Use Filter options 4.Search
Process searches Historical Records first, then gives links to submitted
submitted family trees
Click on a Life Event or a Relationship opens a new cells: Don’
Don’t fill all cells!!
NOTE: Familysearch wildcards: similar to Ancestry’
Ancestry’s:
Must include at least 3 characters of search word
* = zero or more characters; may have >1 * and >1 ?
? = one character; OK at beginning and/or at end
©Spring 2013 update Thomas P. Doherty
See ALL Class site: http://udel.edu/~tdoherty for clickable links
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familysearch.org Search Results
Other Fas*
Fas*ig in same
household also listed
Lists of 20/page is only option
about filters: https://familysearch.org/node/1144
Filtering Familysearch Results
Filter your result
Click
to expand
Click to limit search to these 27
Not in historicalrecord (21)
grouped by century
All residences in results were here.
< By century
< By century
NOTE: In general, fold3.com and
familysearch.com indexes are far
more complete than other
databases, such as ancestry.com
(which owns fold3 [was footnote].
Other year named in record (grouped by century)
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Filtering Out Birth/Marriage/Death
True – was U.S. Navy doctor
Hint to use F?s*
F?s*ig wildcard in search
Click on Francis Fassig for image
Camera means you can view original image
This is actually Lillian Chrissinger’
Chrissinger’s
death record which names her parents.
You need to register and sign in to see image.
Everything is free.
LDS church wants you to know your family.
really FreiFreilauberscheim,
lauberscheim, Ger.
appears clerk made “t”
short and crossed “h”
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Browse LDS Record Collection
scroll down to map at familysearch.org home page
Click on map or collection, e.g. U.S., to browse.
Then you can choose just one collection to search.
<< Note this is a
work in progress
Note:
Some collections are
only images, others
have no images and
others have both
images and index
Clicking here gives the
“Search records”
records” form above
where I will now search for
“Susan* Goodfellow”
Goodfellow”
birth records
or ...
Susan* gets Susan,
Susanna, Susannah
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Search Results for “Susan Goodfellow”
Note you can refine search
or do a new search
Placing cursor over entry
gives transcribed data,
but be sure to click on icon
to the right of names to see
the original documents
Therefore you can see indexed information from a record
without clicking on it.
Original Cook Co Birth Certificate
^^Note above that you can enlarge image to full screen
and also save, print, rotate and invert to white on black.
Note that the birth certificate gives also birthplace of
both parents, but that is only secondary information.
There is also a sliding scale to adjust >
the image zoom to your liking >
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You can print Whole Image or Selected Portions
(e.g. to remove edges) to a pdf file (recommended)
Uniquely name pdf,
pdf, so you don’
don’t have to open it to know it,
e.g. GG-IreneMaudeIreneMaude-bChicagoofNormanPhelps(3Oct1892cert)
Some Images of
Foreign records
on Pilot Site
* Some indexed without images
* Some “Browse images only”
* Goal: All 2.5M microfilm rolls (not
restricted) will be digitized frame
by frame and free on the web in
7-10 years with searchable index.
* About 10% of rolls already digitized
* Over 150,000 transcribers world wide
indexing one million names/per
day, double-keyed and arbitrated
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Finding Records by Browsing Images - 1
Start at http://familysearch.org 1
Scroll down and click on to
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Location or on map
Can filter further by
Date, Collections and
only with Images
Click on State
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At http://familysearch.org you can search or browse
over 8 billion digital Images of original records onon-line, many already indexed.
Finding Records by Browsing Images - 2
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Choose record type(s)
type(s)
at that church
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I’m looking for
baptisms 18811881-1892
[may have to look
at two ledgers]
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Finding Records by Browsing Images – 3
Searching for Edward James Doherty, born 2 Nov 1886
Image #294 of 375
Name of Child Lawful Child of Born Date Baptism Date
Name of Child
Baptism Date
14 Nov 1886
Sponsors
Priest
Lawful Child of
Sponsors (Related?)
John Gaffny
Bridget Martin
Born Date
Priest
In 1984, the church said Edward’
Edward’s baptism was not in their register, only those of
his three older sisters. I surmised the family left the church before
before Ed’
Ed’s baptism.
Search for History Books on Familysearch.org
See list of participating libraries on next slide
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Family History Books Participating Libraries
See https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FHD_PUBLIC
https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FHD_PUBLIC
Advanced Search for History Books on Familysearch.org
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Search for
History Books on
Familysearch.org
If you put in a surname it assumes you
want to search for a family history.
You are not searching a full text of a
book, only the indexed words.
Search here if you want
family histories on that surname
Check box with click if you want
that surname in other histories.
Search for History Books on Familysearch.org
Note: This is just a family chart
on a Lotus 1,2,3 worksheet
submitted to the Family History
Center in Salt Lake in 1987
Goal: LDS have agreements with BYU, Godfrey Library (CT), Houston
Houston (TX) Public Library and
Allen County Library to become the largest digital book collection
collection in the world
[What about Google?]
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Search International Genealogical Index (igi)
Start at http://familysearch.org
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At http://familysearch.org you can search or browse
over 8 billion digital Images of original records onon-line, many already indexed.
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Results:
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German Towns where Fassigs Lived 18151815-47
Tom’
Tom’s wife’
wife’s maiden name
If too many hits, clicking on
“Advanced Search”
Search” in form above
gives form below with more specifics:
e.g. spouse, father/mother names and
“Use exact spelling”
spelling” box
+ many more hits, but all are from Hessen, Germany
Search Mormon Records for Fassig/Fasig Origins
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
Where Fassigs lived in about 1820s:
Bad-Duerkheim, Pfalz, Bayern
Frei-Laubersheim, Rheinhessen, Hessen
Horrweiler, Bingen, Rheinhessen, Hessen
Sankt Johann, Alzey, Rheinhessen, Hessen
Sprendlingen, Alzey, Hessen
Wolfsheim, Rheinhessen, Hessen
Wonsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt
Zotzenheim, Alzey, Rheinhessen, Hessen
First way to find foreign town of origin (good for rare surname):
1. Find towns using MapQuest: http://www.mapquest.com
2. Search LDS microfilms of baptisms in each place
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Fassig Towns, most all in Hessen
-Darmstadt
Hessen-Darmstadt
Zoomed out View
Search
Search these
these LDS
LDS microfilms
microfilms for
for Fassig:
Fassig:
Frei-Laubersheim,
Frei-Laubersheim, Rheinhessen,
Rheinhessen, Hessen
Hessen
Horrweiler,
Horrweiler, Bingen,
Bingen, Rheinhessen,
Rheinhessen, Hessen
Hessen
Sprendlingen,
Sprendlingen, Alzey,
Alzey, Hessen
Hessen
Sankt
Sankt Johann,
Johann, Alzey,
Alzey, Rheinhessen,
Rheinhessen, Hessen
Hessen
Wolfsheim,
Wolfsheim, Rheinhessen,
Rheinhessen, Hessen
Hessen
Wonsheim,
Wonsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt
Hessen-Darmstadt
Zotzenheim,
Zotzenheim, Alzey,
Alzey, Rheinhessen,
Rheinhessen, Hessen
Hessen
Bad-Duerkheim,
Bad-Duerkheim, Pfalz,
Pfalz, Bayern
Bayern
Strategy Works!
Her Fassig ancestry
was found in
Frei-Laubersheim
-- 40km
40km SS of
of Wonsheim
Wonsheim
LDS FamilySearch Centers (FSC) in New Castle Co DE
Where to view LDS microfilms locally
•
Osher
Lifelong
Learning
at UD (aka
(Academy)
FHC
WilWilmingmington
High
FHC: Wilmington 143 Dickinson Lane, Westhaven.
zTurn onto Dickinson Lane from Route 100.
zAt 4th left, turn on to Dickinson Lane from Dickinson
Lane - really! (see map)
zChurch is ½ block on left.
zUse right side parking and enter FHC from labeled
single side door.
zTu 1-5:30pm, Th/Sa 10am-1pm, Phone 302-654-1911
FHC: Newark 500 W. Chestnut Hill Rd (no map)
I-95 to Route 896 North
West (left) on Chestnut Hill Road.
W to Ott’s Chapel Rd – church on right at NE corner
Tu/W/Th/Sa 10a-2p; W/Th 6-9p; Phone 302-456-9301
For current hours/phone of a FSC, enter
zip code in blank on
http://www.familysearch.org/locations
Order LDS microfilms on-line, view at local FHC
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Goodfellow
Goodfellow in
in Brooklyn
Brooklyn 1870
1870 Census
Census
Susanna
Thomas
Thomas
Susanna
Susan
Phelps
Katie
Leon
LDS Church Library Catalog (look for microfilm):
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
Census is 16 August 1870, but Susanna dies before May 1872
Finding
Finding LDS
LDS Microfilms
Microfilms -- 11
Start at https://familysearch.org
Brooklyn << could add “, New York”
York”
Or use previous version: https://familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
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Finding
LDS
Microfilms
–– 11previous
Finding
LDS
Microfilms
previous
Using previous version: https://familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
Brooklyn
<< could also add “New York”
York”
Finding
Finding LDS
LDS Microfilms
Microfilms -- 22
Brooklyn - 1
Brooklyn - 2
(later)
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Finding
Finding LDS
LDS Microfilms
Microfilms -- 33
<< Index only
Later >
<< Vital records (certificates)
<< 18701870-72 certificates
Finding
Finding LDS
LDS Microfilms
Microfilms -- 44
2. Then (important!
(important!))
Index>>
<< 1. Confirm years
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Finding
Finding LDS
LDS Microfilms
Microfilms -- 55
Order microfilms at https://www.familysearch.org/films
Brooklyn Index Microfilms to order (about $7.50 each)
includes Goodfellow
includes Goodfellow
includes Goodfellow
Then repeat process to order from 21 death certificate films
Susannah
Susannah Goodfellow
Goodfellow
died
died in
in Brooklyn
Brooklyn 13
13 Oct
Oct 1870
1870
Great
Chicago
Fire
8-9 Oct 1871
Thomas,
Thomas, aa carpenter,
carpenter, moved
moved to
to Chicago
Chicago in
in 1871
1871 to
to help
help rebuild
rebuild burned
burned city.
city.
On
On 33 May
May 1872
1872 Chicago,
Chicago, he
he m
m Mary
Mary Smith,
Smith, b.ON;
b.ON; father
father b.VT
b.VT (1900
(1900 census)
census)
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New Beta Site: http://new.familysearch.org
Combines “Search Records” with ‘new’ familysearch.org
LDS is constructing a “Family Tree” of all mankind to link
everyone who ever lived on earth, starting, of course, with
available records.
Cousins will be able to collaborate with cousins they didn’t
know they had to work on this project..
Currently limited to LDS members and selected others.

“Family Tree” should be open to everyone later in 2013:
New Beta Site:
http://new.familysearch.org
LDS “Family Tree” is an attempt
to link everyone who ever lived
on earth, starting with available
records.
Currently limited to LDS
members and selected others.
It’s not easy to become selected.
LDS “Family Tree” should be
available to all later in 2013.
First you must register for a
FamilySearch Account.
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Originally the
Advanced Form
No longer available?
Adds
residence/years,
parents and spouse names
and marriage date and
location
Allows range of years
Can limit search on each
category by choosing
“exact”
From http://findagrave.com choose: “Search 36 million graves”
graves”
<Click in
<this box
<for home
Only enter a person’
person’s name here, if you want to pay.
Enter person’
person’s name here
, not in above form, which is a pay site.
Click here
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Results from Findagrave.com Search
< Click here to see tombstone
Click tab for
better photos
was unsuccessful
<< Click here to see
cemetery photo.
He died in Orange
Co FL leaving a
widow, so he may
not actually be
buried here next
to his first wife,
only memorialized
Remember: next Thursday
9/24 you can bringbring-a-friend,
but I can’
can’t promise
a seat at a computer.
Leopold
’s Mexican
Leopold’s
Mexican War
War Pension
Pension
1887
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Finding Microfilms at LDS
-1
LDS-1
http://familysearch.org
http://familysearch.org
or http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0
Kimratshofen
could put “Germany”
Germany” here, but only one Kimratshofen
Leopold’s
birth
place
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William Fassig’
’s Mexican War Pension Application 8 Feb 1887
Fassig
Fassig’s
born 25 July 1824 (8 Feb 1887 - 62y 6m 14d)
5 feet 6½ inches tall, light complexion, grey eyes, grey hair
born at Freilabersheim, Hessedarmstadt!!!
Frei
-Laubersheim, Hessen
-Darmstadt
Frei-Laubersheim,
Hessen-Darmstadt
Search
Search for
for Frei-Laubersheim
Frei-Laubersheim vital
vital records
records
on
on Fassig
Fassig family
family at
at LDS
LDS church
church site:
site:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
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Frei
-laubersheim, Hesse
Frei-laubersheim,
Hesse Darmstadt
Darmstadt Microfilm
Microfilm
Click
Click “View
“View Film
Film Notes”
Notes” button
button to
to find
find out
out what
what is
is on
on each
each microfilm
microfilm
before
before ordering
ordering at
at local
local Family
Family History
History Library
Library
Frei
-laubersheim, Hesse
Frei-laubersheim,
Hesse Darmstadt
Darmstadt Microfilm
Microfilm
Order
these
films:
√ Adam b
birth ^ baptism
death (Tote)
marriage^
& before
√√√
√√
√Adam’s
ancestry
√√
at end of
film above
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Frei
-Laubersheim 1824 birth of Wilhelm Fassig
Frei-Laubersheim

Wilhelm Fassig born 22 Jul 1824 of Adam and Barbara Bernhard

baptized 25 Jul 1924 (birth date on pension application)

Katharine named mother on cemetery card, but Barbara in baptism
Not
Not Everything
Everything
is
is on
on the
the Web
Web
Much research
must be done
the old-fashioned way
Unlike the real one,
this iceberg
rises every year.
Image created by Elizabeth Gorrell,
California Genealogical Society
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