{"id":14040,"date":"2021-09-22T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:27:53","slug":"webinar-on-getting-most-from-familysearch-24-sept-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/webinar-on-getting-most-from-familysearch-24-sept-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on Getting Most from FamilySearch 28 Sept 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Getting the Most from FamilySearch 7:30 pm. central 28 Sept 2021 (note date\/time change). Attend live (handout included) or pre-order recording and handout<\/strong>&#8211;registration information below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>FamilySearch<\/em> site contains images of records from around the world\u2014most available right from your internet connection. This presentation will focus on the actual records that are on <em>FamilySearch<\/em> and the finding aids that have been created to some of those records. We will not be discussing the online trees in this session and will concentrate on the \u201cdigital microfilm\u201d and how that information can be navigated and used for your research. We will break the material down into two large categories: indexed and unindexed digital records. Presentation will be made by Michael John Neill and will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Generalized search strategy<em>. <\/em><\/strong>It is easy to\nbecome overwhelmed with what is on <em>FamilySearch<\/em>. We will start with a\ngeneralized organizational strategy to effectively and efficiently navigate\nwhat is on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Searching indexed digital record sets<\/strong>: determining what\nrecords are in the database, determining what names from the records are in the\nindex, creating effective search queries, and organizing and tracking conducted\nsearches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Searching the catalog for non-indexed record images<\/strong>:\nmaking certain all political jurisdictions covering a specific location have\nbeen searched, determining if locally created indexes were created to records, and\ntracking manual searches of unindexed digital images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Requesting copies of records will also be discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live presentation\u2014via GotoWebinar\u2014on 28 September 2021 at 7:30 pm. US Central Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=ULFWLQGZEAGVJ\">Register\nfor live attendance<\/a>&#8212;$16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=F42GV75PSRKQE\">Pre-order\nrecording and handout from session<\/a>&#8211;$12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the Most from FamilySearch 7:30 pm. central 28 Sept 2021 (note date\/time change). Attend live (handout included) or pre-order recording and handout&#8211;registration information below. The FamilySearch site contains images of records from around the world\u2014most available right from your internet connection. This presentation will focus on the actual records that are on FamilySearch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}