Tag: FamilySearch

Records Lost in Typhoon Haiyan Are Replaced by Digital Copies

By on December 5, 2014

When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last year, it destroyed everything in its path including the local civil registration offices containing the area birth, marriage and death records. According to a recent article in the Deseret News: “By the time the storm got to Tacloban, there was a storm surge behind it with 10-foot... (Read More)

Massive Online U.S. Obituaries Project Will Make It Easier to Find Your Ancestors

By on October 1, 2014

FamilySearch International (FamilySearch.org) and GenealogyBank (GenealogyBank.com) today announced an agreement to make over a billion records from historical obituaries searchable online. It will be the largest—and perhaps most significant—online U.S. historical records access initiative yet. Find out more at: https://www.genealogybank.com/family-search/ The tremendous undertaking will make a billion records from over 100 million U.S. newspaper... (Read More)

How to Scan, Save & Share Your Family Photographs Online

By on November 5, 2013

The digital age is a new world for genealogists. We need to have not only research skills but the ability to scan and digitally preserve the many documents and photographs that we use daily. This gives us the 21st century opportunity to add the actual genealogical documents and even photographs of our deceased relatives... (Read More)