Avoiding the FamilySearch Tree

There is much more to FamilySearch than the online tree. There are images of thousands of original records from across the world. The indexes to the these records are of varying quality, but it’s worth remembering that one can use FamilySearch without ever looking at any of the collaborative tree. One can use the finding aids and indexes to find some things, but sometimes the original indexes created by the original holder of the record will locate things other indexes to do not. And the original records can be manually browsed for searching if that should be desired, although sometimes (depending up the quantity of documents in a record set) that may not be practical.

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