[Genealogy] Recent Genealogy Tips of the Day and Fan Thoughts

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** Recent Genealogy Tips of the Day
** Full-Text Webinar
** FAN Thoughts

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Recent Genealogy Tips of the Day
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   - Is Yours the Only One?
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/07/is-yours-the-only-one/>
   - Genealogy Goals?
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/06/genealogy-goals-4/>
   - Place Names from Home
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/05/place-names-from-home/>
   - First Associates and Home Folks
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/03/first-associates-and-home-folks/>
   - The Analysis of Each Statement
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/02/the-analysis-of-each-statement/>
   - Preserve the Memory
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/02/01/preserve-the-memory-2/>
   - All Associates are Not Equal
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/31/all-associates-are-not-equal/>
   - The “Wrong” Church
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/30/the-wrong-church/>
   - Another Way To Use Full-Text Search at FamilySearch
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/29/another-way-to-use-full-text-search-at-familysearch/>
   - Children Are Always Named for Sponsors
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/28/children-are-always-named-for-sponsors/>
   - 1850 and 1860 Census Land References
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/27/1850-and-1860-census-land-references/>
   - US 1890s Era Research
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/26/us-1890s-era-research/>
   - Dates’ Purposes
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/25/dates-purposes/>
   - At Least Three
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/24/at-least-three/>
   - Incomplete Land Claims Referenced in the Paper?
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/23/incomplete-land-claims-referenced-in-the-paper/>
   - The “Not Mine” List
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/01/22/the-not-mine-list/>
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   January 2026 Full-Text Search at FamilySearch Webinar

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   We’re excited to offer this revised presentation on the full-text
   searching at *FamilySearch*--reflecting changes made to the site since
   this was recorded in August 2025. We’ve redesigned our presentation as this
   functionality continues to change. And…we have an extensive handout
   complete with forms to help you find more people.

   If you have purchased an earlier version of this presentation--email me
   at mjnrootdig at gmail.com for the code to order this revision for $10.
   Fully Utilizing Full-Text Search: Revised for January 2026

   Your purchase includes:
   - *A 90 minute (or more 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 examples*—completely new people and families
   from our previous presentations.

   Available for immediate download for $30
   <https://michael-john-neill.dpdcart.com/cart/add?product_id=246272&method_id=268990>.
   Complete handout included and additional forms.
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   - Fan Thoughts
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   Upon occasion, I think people carry the FAN methodology concept a bit
   too far. The concept is excellent in theory, but there are some for whom it
   has become a bit of an obsession.

   I was working on the first cousin of a great-great-grandmother…just
   really trying to document an overview of her life, her vital dates, and
   some basic information on her children. This is to help me get a larger
   picture of the extended family of my great-great-grandmother. I discover
   that the first cousin’s husband was married before he married the first
   cousin.

   How much do I need to know about that first wife?

   Then I think about myself.

   I have first cousins. I think one of them has a spouse that was married
   before they married my cousin. What impact does that have on me?

   None.

   Are there situations where it is necessary to research that far afield?
   Perhaps, but those times and places are where records are scant,
   information is confusing, or there are other confounding issues. Many times
   that is not the case at all.
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