Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search

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We’re excited to offer this completely new presentation on the full-text searching at FamilySearch. We’ve redesigned our presentation as this functionality continues to change. And…we’re adding an extensive handout complete with forms to help you find more people.

Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search: A New Approach

Your purchase includes:

• A two-hour presentation you can view as often as you want.
• Detailed handout with charts and forms to help organize your searches. Charts and forms sent as separate files you can edit and customize and not as a locked PDF you have to re-create yourself as a new document.

We’ll be including and discussing:

Determining what is in Full-Text Search—what you can access at home and what you will have to be in a FamilySearch facility or affiliate to access.

Seeing How AI Transcriptions are different—they aren’t like the transcriptions made by humans. That can change your approach.

Remembering that Full-Text means every word—approaches need to differ as we aren’t looking up a name in an index any more.

Asking Who is in the record? We aren’t just searching for the main person like we did with traditional indexes. We’ll discuss how to determine who could be mentioned in a record.

Determining How to search? There are a variety of ways to search and filter results. We’ll see how each one works to help determine the best strategy.

Creating search strategies—how full-text search changes your approach and why just dumping terms in search boxes is not always effective.

Determining what you found The interface does not always make this clear. We will show you how to get beyond the confusion and help you get enough detail for a citation.

Creating effective problem-solving approaches—what to do when you cannot find something you want.

Demonstrating practical new examples—completely new people and families from our previous presentations.

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