Today's support is being provided by Kendra Morgan, my name is Jennifer Peterson, I'm excited to have you here.
We're going to get started, we're at the top of the hour.
I'm really excited to introduce our presenter for today, Jim Ison comes to us from familysearch.org he is area manager for the North America northeast area, family history department.
He comes with a wealth of experience and expertise in this area.
And we're so excited to have you here today, Jim, welcome.
>> Thank you, so much, Jennifer.
Thank everyone for taking part of your day to spend and learn more about familysearch.org.
I was especially happy to receive this webinar invitation as a way of saying thank you for many ins stans when librarians have assisted hee over the years.
I can't do without our public libraries.
As we get started thinking about family history, beginners sometimes require extra attention as they learn the ropes.
You might be -- might relate to that.
Also, researchers at any sage may at times confuse the dead and possibly irritate the living, so thank you for your patience and for your assistance.
As you may know family history and genealogy just become more popular with every year.
Is reported to be the second most popular hobby in North America after gardening.
Just a couple of key resources for you as librarians.
I imagine that many of you are already partnering with your local and state and genealogical societies and historical societies.
Early on one of the best items of advice I veefd from a librarian was to make sure that I attended my local Gene logical society.
Also wanted to highlight a website called Usgenweb.org.
It's a website for every county in the United States.
Each county has a little bit different site but that's where they will put resources for that particular county, so you can check out your own local counties but also when you have patrons coming in who are interested in a different state or locality.
This is an excellent way to help them see what resources might be there.
Then in your own local library to see how your description is for your genealogical resources.
Many libraries have just excellent descriptions of what they have for genealogy or contacts for e-mail or phone that people can call in.
I've been helped on on so many occasions by just checking out what the library had on its website.
With that, let's talk about a few things and intro bucks about Family Search.
First, first, something you may already know which is free has ha nice ring to most people.
Using Family Search your library is free, anywhere there is disint connection your patrons can have free access through familysearch.org.
Additionally they will have access to one of the world's largest collections of records.
We have 2.4 million reels of micro film and it's stored what we call the granite mountain vault just outside of Salt Lake City.
You can tell Family Search has some permanence, we're going to be here for quite a long while.
As a matter of fact, we've already been here since 1894.
Capturing records across the world.
Our goal now is to empty our vaults, figuratively, to put all those records online.
So they would be accessible to everybody.
And so you see the number of collections by locality and they are increasing every day hopefully in the next five years or so we'll be able to have all of our records online.
On the other hand, we keep digitizing records, we have camera capture crews, 300 cameras are in operation, here is an image of somebody at an archive, one of our volunteers, service missionaries, and so we're constantly adding new records as well.
In fact you can think of Family Search as a large sprol  untear organization.
Many come from the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints such as previous image with the capture camera operator.
But there are thousands of volunteers who are not of the  LDS faith.
So if any of you have volunteered a as indexer other served in one of our family history centers, thank you, thank you so very much.
Something else that is a little bit unique about Family Search is our tree.
It's a single tree, so instead of hosting thousands of small trees, Family Search has a single large collaborative tree.
Only been out there for three years, so many of our users who have been on Family Search for years still aren't quite aware that we have this tree.
So I'll be introducing some aspects of that to you as well.
So here is the agenda that I've laid out for us, most of your pray trons are going to be in to searching, I thought for a few tips around searching to make that experience more user friendly for them.
We'll talk about the family tree.
I thought we'd pause and have some questions.
Then we pick up again and talk about help.
Over the last year, Family Search has invested quite a bit into its help features, both self help then contacting us live for help.
Then hopefully we'll have enough time at the end to have some additional questions.
So when you can out to familysearch.org we have images, six home page images which rotate through, but the teachers are exactly the same.
In the upper left corner there with our Family Search, wherever you are, you can always get back home, just  clicking on that icon.
I would say that 95% of our users are there using search and most all of them use the records feature.
But I thought I would review just briefly some of the other search features that we have.
Genealogy, catalogs, books and wick keys.
Today we have our tree in the path back in the 1980s.
We had something called ancestral file, that was replaced by pedigree resource file and we've had something called the international genealogical, the IGI.
Conclusions from these past efforts can be searched looking at Gene yolings.
The way you find out what is on those reels is by using our catalog.
When you search the catalog the primary search is to the country, to the place.
But you can also do it through surnames and titles and authors, subjects, as well as the actual film number.
Off on the right you'll see that we have partnership with  OCLC, so from this page you can actually open a browser and go out and use worldcats, likewise our catalog is accessible to a worldcat as well.
In this example I typed in butler because I'm interested in butler county, Pennsylvania.
And select the entry for Pennsylvania for butler.
It bring up your typical agency card catalog-type entry.
In this case I was interested in finding a deed from butler county and so land and property, there are four entries there and one of those I went too fast so let's go back.
One of those is the 1804-1812 timeframe, so I'm interested in 1808.
So I'm going to select this film number 1434214.
Then I can actually order that and have it brought to a local family history center, or if your library happens to be affiliate of the family history library, they can actually be ordered to your library to be used.
One of the nice things about the catalog is any selection that -- it's actually online you'll see the red entry so that you'll know that.
And in this case the probate, wills, estate papers for butler county, Pennsylvania, are online already.
Another thing that you can search are for books that are online.
You may be familiar that the family his thoar rely brear in Salt Lake has quite a number of family histories.
We have digitized many of those, we're in partnership with many other libraries throwlt the country, they are also scan their books and to make them available online at Family Search.
When you go to books, you have your search window.
Murphree was the family I was interested in so it would come up on the first entry so it would be easy to show to you.
I also put the author, otherwise it would have been the seventh entry from the search results.
Then I can open this book, interested in Moses Murphree you can add every name searched there in these online books, it's quite an easy way to navigate.
 then lastly we have a Wiki that you can use, we're going to spend more time second part talking about the Wiki.
 let's jump back to searching itself since that's what most of our patrons are interested in.
Here is our basic search screen.
I wanted to show way off on the lower right, I guess this is the place that people least likely look, but there we have our tips icon.
And when you click on it, it will bring up some tips for use that relate to this particular topic that you're trying to do.
So this is contextual help that only been on Family Search for the last few months.
And so then you can click on any of these entries, in many cases there will be a little video to show you -- that will step you through the process as well as a set of instructions.
So, let's just step through a couple of these tips.
This is a typical screen, many patrons will put -- enter the names in, we should advise that it is the ancestor's name.
I heard from somebody that they really thought this was a terrible site because they put their own name in and they didn't get many results.
Which I guess is a good thing since they were alive and this is for deceased people.
It was searching for -- this is my second grade grandfather, James lynch, just do a search for him click the blue box down there.
What we learn is there were 300,000 results for James lynch.
That's a little bit too much.
That's like a needle in a Hay stack not very good user experience.
And in this case it's showing me 1940 entries when I'm really interested in 19th century entries from Iowa.
Let's see how we could tailor this a little bit easier.
We have snag we call filters, life events and relationships.
So, in this case, after I put in the name of James lynch, I'm looking for his marriage record.
So I'm going to select marriage from there, I believe he was married in Iowa, he lived -- dash once he came to the united saits he pretty much lived in Iowa.
I put a year range there.
Zone I'll click at the bottom there's a blue box.
I'll click the search box.
And so he comes up as the second entry.
Since I know that he had lived in Warren county.
Actually I know that his wife's first name was Ellen.
So I could have done this search by also adding the relationship filter and having put in spouse of Ellen into this search.
Which case he would have been the first result.
And I don't know most of you, but I imagine you actually do like to see your results in the top of the page, if not the first, second or third entry.
Using these filters helps patrons to get to the records that they're interested in.
Let's do this again but we'll combine this with restrict by type.
So we're going to look for James lynch again, but this time we're going to look for him in 1880 census, only want to see him in the 1880 census, don't want to see him in any other census.
What we do here, put his name back into the -- again first and last name.
This time instead of marriage, we're going to select residence.
That is the entry you use for all of our census searches.
Actually knew that after Warren county he lived in another county.
So I used that as my range.
Then down at the bottom you can activate type.
Brings up several different records types and in this case I'm going to check census, the only results I'll get back is a census record, I won't have any military records or any marriage records or any other type of record.
And so we see single, correct result for James lynch in 1880 census.
That is a perfect match.
I think many of you might be familiar with wild cards, but in actuality many of our patrons are not familiar with wild cards.
These are a researcher's best friends.
So in this particular case my grandfather, Alfred Hamsing, he's in most of the census records but he's not in the 1900 sen suggestion record.
He was born in 1889 he sloo be in the 1900 census record.
But no matter what I did I could not find him, he is in small town in Lincoln county, Wisconsin.
I entered that, I entered 1900, since I couldn't find him anywhere I used his -- instead of last name I used H and an asterisk.
Now, this is pretty powerful.
Family Search is one of the few that has a single letter requirement for the wild card.
Many such as an says tore rewill requirely letters before you use your wild card in this case we're going to do Alfred with an H asterisk.
Our results is second entry.
I'm able to tell that it's him because I can see his parents and his siblings.
It shows Haursing, I don't know how that got there.
We could have done this slightly different, beginning with the H we could say that we want any name that ends with  S-I-N-G.
Or I-N-G then given me those names that ended that way.
With this search he's the first result.
Alfred Hoursing.
Just to show you how these -- why it's important to be able sto do these types of wild card searches is that sometimes the handwriting isn't quite what you hope it would be.
And other times the indexing isn't quite what you would hope it to be.
I can look at this perfectly tell that it's HAMSING.
But I think we'd have to 'dre that Hoursing is also a pretty good rendition.
So, wild cards are really valuable.
As well as the question mark wild card, we were searching for George money, we couldn't find him.
Many times the letter that gets messed up is one of those vowels.
So, we searched as a George, question mark, N-E-Y we found him as George Maney but it was our guy.
We needed the wild card to be able to get to the right conclusion.
Also wanted to show you a tip for finding married names, this is one of the toughest things in family history.
Let me give you an example here.
This is an 1870 census from South Carolina.
The family of Alexander Orr, Alex Orr we see highlighted here four daughters, Amanda, Margaret, Marietta and Carrie, 17, 15, 11 and 9.
Would really like to see these in 1880, but more than likely they're all going to be married by that time, they won't be in the house since we don't know who they married we're not going to be able to find them or be very difficult to find them.
So, here is way that we can do this now that we have so many additional records online.
In South Carolina, the death records are online for about 50 years.
And so what we do here is we use -- don't enter a name in the first and last names.
Leave that blank.
I'm going to use death place for South Carolina.
From my life event.
Then down in relationship I'm going to click on parents and in this case I'm going to have Alexander Orr and Malinda.
This will Family Search will go out and search all those South Carolina death records find only instances where Alexander oorr and Malinda are the parents.
So, we see here the four married names for Corrie previously was Carrie she married a Hicxs, Marietta married Smith, Amanda married Stegall and Margaret married a King.
We can look for them in other records, this pairntd search is very powerful search that we can do these days.
And bonus, we are were able to learn that mother's maiden name for Malinda was Couch.
Those are priceless when we can pick up the maiden names.
So, the last tip here is looking for a source number.
Many times what we bring back is what we call an index.
So, it's basically the key information without the image.
We always want to see the image.
So if we can search -- go to the end of the index look for the GS film number we can see that that's the film number which the image actually ex sieses and we can then order that film number and have it brought to our library or family history center.
And here is the image.
It's always good to look to see where the actual index -- the film is nor that index.
So, to use our family tree as well as do couple other features you need to log in.
Everything we've done to date, all that searching, you can do that without having to log in.
But to use the tree we need to have a log in and we can have a free log in, you can see in the upper right.
It's got standard fill in the box sort of thing.
Give your name, user name, your password and either e-mail or cell phone.
And then country for how you want it to appear on the  screen, male-female.
Country, birthday.
Whether you are LDS or not.
The hardest part of this whole log in is making sure you capture those letters correctly and then you create an account.
Then they will send you an e-mail you can validate the fact that you've actually requested this account and you'll be  in.
That gets you entry to our family tree of over one billion ancestors.
Let's take a look at that for a few minutes.
From the home page is couple of different ways you can gain entry through the family tree or through what's called the fan chart.
You have another search screen, but again what we're doing here is we're finding people who are already in the tree.
We are not looking for historical records at all for the most part.
And in this case what I'm showing you is is an entry, a search featuring for my grandmother Lorilla Spencer.
I just went added her husband's first name, Frank, and her father's first chaim, Charles.
With that information I clicked on find.
And here is where we have duplicate we'll click on find again.
Up comes her entry, every person in the tree has a personal identification PID.
So you see her's there.
So, we can also do find using the seven character code.
For people that you are always interested in you might keep those handy.
So, we see her entry, we click on her name.
Up comes what I call a summary card that shows a little bit of information about her and then we can click her tree and we see what I call the landscape view, the traditional pedigree view.
And off on the right we can then extend the generations and reduce them, kind of a accordion type of affect.
Expand the view.
Then we have icons that tell us a little bit about each of the people, you can see here from my four grandparents, that there are records, that's what the blue is.
You can check the boxes that you want to see or you don't want to see any particular one sometimes, uncheck the portraits perhaps.
Then we have four different ways you can look at the tree.
So we just saw the landscape view, there's portrait view, fan chart view and desen Dan see view.
You can pretty much tailor the way you look.
Here is example of portrait pedigree.
This is my favorite, I really like the fan chart view that you can navigate around.
Here I've highlighted my grandmother again.
You see that she's got ten sources associated with her and  44 memories.
Let's take a look at that.
with our tree you can add photos easily.
You can also add documents.
If you have documents in your possession you can scan them and then upload them to the tree.
Or we can easily add documents that are already online and add them to the tree.
Then you can create sources.
What I do with my photos, I will typically create a little story, here is an example, ply grandmother was a teacher there in South Carolina around 1907 here is a little story.
She is the one to the right of the flag.
And so this really personalizes it, many of us have old photos that are in the boxes for safe keeping we just need to -- we can post all these then everybody can have access to them.
We can go in and look at her personal view.
So now I can see her spouse, Frank.
I can see her children, Warren and Lee.
I can see her parents can ts I can see her siblings off on one view, it's easy thing to navigate in each of those are active links you can bring any of those people online as well and look at them.
One of the things that's really powerful now, if you're familiar with ancestry shaking leave.
Here in family search, when you're in the tree we have record hints, in this case for Lorilla showing a marriage record and 1930 census record.
We have about 99% success with the hints.
So this is also very easy way for people to be able to find records.
So we're going to click here on the 1930.
And here is the image for Lorilla and her family from 1930.
We add that to the tree.
Doing a record search, this is a consolidated search, instead of going out on your home page and searching for records, historical records, if you have a log in you can come in and search by way of the tree as well.
Then you can easily attach the sources so that they're there and everybody knows where they are and everybody has access to them.
Because we're all looking at the very same person.
Now here is an entry for somebody named Johann Selchert.
My other grandmother was Selchert.
We trace her line back into a little town called Britzig in Pommern.
I added the birth information for Johann.
And so since this is a collaborative tree here two years later, Lester entered the christening data.
I got a message that said that he had updated Johann's entry in the tree, I got really excited because I can then click on Lester's name there, I'll be able to send him a message.
I knew he must be a relative because there's only -- I practically know all of the Selchert relatives, but not him.
I said, Lester, how are you related?
I'm not related to the Selcherts I just also have ancestors in Brietzig, I said, what?
This is really, really small town in Poland.
But Lester has been to Brietzig three times and Lo and behold he sent me the picture of the church from the  Selcherts were married and christened and, what a wonderful treasure to have because -- all because there was a collaborative tree that we could work from.
You can ask family search to send you a message, I get a weekly message for anything that changes in the family tree.
We can see here that there was a change by Elizabeth Murphree and I could click on her and within seconds I can find out who made the change and what change it was.
A pretty powerful tree.
So, I want to pause here for a few moments and see if we have some questions -- couple of questions at this time?
I'd be willing to take if there are any.
>> Excellent.
Thank you so much, Jim, 24 is so exciting to see.
Kendra was over here doing some Family Searching already, so obviously you're inspiring us.
There were some good questions early on when you  mentioned -- when you were talking about the microfiche.
Somebody asked about clarification about what a family history affiliate is, how do public libraries become affiliates of the Family Search?
>> In just a few minutes we'll talk about help and you can have phone number or e-mail and you can contact Family Search and let them know that you're interested in being an affiliate library.
What that basically means, if you have micro film readers that you can then order, your patrons can order films to come to your library and so they can -- then you would be responsible for kind of the custody of those films while they are there.
Patrons do not take the films personally, they're kept either in the family history center or the affiliate  library.
>> Okay.
If libraries were interested in pursuing that affiliate relationship is contacting Family Search the best approach for that?
>> Yes.
Just call our support number and say that you -- you are from a library, you've heard about affiliate programs you'd like to learn more about it.
>> Okay.
There was a great question, we were curious as well, is there -- do you all have a special sort of icon tool so that folks can make Family Search known on their website?
>> I'm not sure I know -- you can easily, of course, make it your favorite.
So you can access -- there's no particular things people have to do to qualify to use Family Search.
It's available and free to everybody.
>> Okay.
And then is there a fee to be an affiliate library?
>> No, there's no fee.
>> All right.
Then there were some great questions that touched on, I know that you're going to talk a little bit about this perhaps, but in terms of verifying that information is confirmed, is there a way -- how do you guarantee that the information people add is correct and is there a process that you all go through to verify whether that information is correct?
>> The $64 million question.
Like all of our trees the information comes from patrons.
What we do by allowing sources to be attached and allowing people to write, if you will, proof statements or discussions as to why they think something is the case, we can collaborate easily.
But there's no validation by Family Search that any particular thing in a tree is correct.
Which is the case for all trees.
It does take some knowledge and genealogical proof standard.
So, for example, I just had communication this last week where -- through our messaging we were able to share why we thought one person thought this and I thought something else and we were able to look at some records together, because they are posted there at Family Search.
There's no given that everything is correct but you can look at it and discuss it with people.
>> Okay.
So, there is -- is dl some sort of protocol or etiquette in terms of how -- I know somebody mentioned misspelled names.
That happens quite frequently, do you indicate that somehow in the record?
>> No.
There's not any particular -- I've seen records where a name is spelled three different ways and on the same page.
Then you'll have indexing mistakes, at this point Family Search does not have a way of showing at names, per se, other than actually a patron making that note in a discussion item.
Or with each of the pieces of information like name or birth date, you can add explanatory information right there for it to be seen easily.
>> Okay.
There are few more questions I think we can keep going and if we don't get to all of them, I want to be sure folks know that we will certainly follow up with Jim if there are outstanding questions.
But keep posting them, we'll circle back after we've moved through this next section.
>> Thanks, Jennifer.
Let's jump in to help.
So, we have help on every single screen in the upper right, I'd increase the font size a little bit more, but it's always in the same place.
And we have a number of different ways that you can obtain help.
So we're going to kind of step through this in a few  minutes, beginning with self help.
The very first thing with the little icon next to quick start is 3:34 video on getting started.
Then under that you have getting started with three steps, discovering your story, exploring your family tree and  finding your ancestors.
Each of those have both video as well as description of how to get started.
Right from the get go you have some useful information.
Then we have our help center topics there so you have eight choices there.
And as you -- so you can -- I went a screen too much, let me go back.
So, each of the help topics will be -- have the same format with frequently asked questions, tips and tricks, research strategies and other resources.
We also have a learning center, so we've created a very robust set of courses, I think it's way over 200 courses  now, you can see there on the left the number of courses with each of the places that we have.
We also have a search screen, we can put in the name of a locality or topic that you want to use.
So this is particularly useful for beginning people or whatever you're going to a new locality to do research.
If you were interested in Poland, for example, put Poland into the search screen there, you'd see that we'd have introduction to Polish research.
Another class on Polish ancestry.
A class on Polish displaced persons.
And then one on reading the handwriting.
We have this for many of our foreign countries, we have a course on reading the handwriting for that country.
Then I want to spend some time here on the Wiki, because I think this is a pretty powerful.
When I was at the family history library and patrons would come up, of course you didn't have any idea what question they were going to ask you ahead of time.
And while I know allot about certain places in North America I know very little about Canada.
And researching, and it seemed like imbearably when I was on shift many of the questions would be about researching Canadian records.
So the Wiki would become my lifeline, if you will.
So that I could help patrons even though I personally didn't know that much about researching in that locality.
So, a Wiki contains databases and online resersz, strategies and guidance.
Explanation of how to use record types and where to obtain records and how to organize.
What it's not, it's not good place for searching for ancestors or specific individuals.
So you want to do that, back of the historical records.
But it's just great for learning about where to research and how to research.
To go back in the print media timeframe, family history library produced research outlines for each state and for many countries.
So that became kind of the foundation for our Wiki.
Then of course we have a team of research specialists there, the family history library, who spent their life focusing on particular researching in particular parts of the country.
We use their expertise.
Then this is an open Wiki so we receive lots of contributions from the community itself.
And so it's like a family history Wikipedia.
And anybody can use it, anybody can also contribute to it.
It's very likely that you as librarians have specific knowledge that very few other people have about researching in your locality.
We certainly invite to you participate in the Wiki itself.
Here is kind of our home page.
We've been doing some renovation in this, we have that red disclaimer there.
To let us know if you see something that we've missed that we tried to improve things.
We have the red box where we can put in a search term.
But most people use the clickable map to get to where they want to go.
We're going to pick Europe here for our little demo.
You see when we do that we now have all these blue links of places that we can go to learn more about researching in that particular locality.
So we're going to click on Germany.
We'll go to Germany, this is all of our research resources that pertain to places in Germany itself.
We have all these research topics, we'll blow that up a little bit so you can see it better.
This is kind of pretty much the format of all of our Wiki pages.
And so pretty extensive.
And great way for patrons to be able to learn about the particular locality in which they're interested in  researching.
I wanted to just point out this little symbol there next, that symbol tells us that there are resources outside of the Wiki itself and outside of Family Search and that's one of the other strong points about the Wiki, since it's being used by research consultants at the family his thoar rely brear, they and lots of other places where records might be located that can be accessed as well.
So how do we find some of these links so you can do one stop shopping from within the Wiki for other resources that are available.
Off on the left under our getting started panel, we have this online genealogical records.
So that's the best way to get to it.
Of course we've organized these geographically as well so then you can click on the location that you'red into in.
So here we're in Missouri and you can see all types of  links.
Now, some of these will have a dollar sign next to them which will indicate that they are a fee based, so you'll be going out to another provider so this is a way of finding what's available and if you want to use a fee or subscription site you can.
But you can save the ones that don't have the dollar sign.
We've also now put these little buttons, blue buttons, on all of our state pages now have easy way to get to our online resources.
We're adding those for our country pages as well.
We have pages of "How to" so many of the records, vital records are still not available online and you have to write to get to them from a particular repository.
So we've provided the instructions on how to be able to do that.
Then you can also put in your own search topic, in this case I've put in African American research.
Again, you see that there are extensive set of resources off on the left panel then we also have within our state pages we have African American resources and so when you click on a state page, you get to our African American resources for that state.
And for those who are beginning and who want to learn more about the research process and how to do quality research, this is a great place to begin.
We have the five steps to the research process and then for each of these steps we have additional instructions and resources for how to do each one of those steps.
So the Wiki is just a great resource for patrons as well as for librarians.
And as I mentioned earlier you can be a contributor there on the left panel where we have volunteer and helper.
You see we have submit Wiki content.
There's two ways that you can do that, if you -- if you submit to a Wiki content that brings up a Google form that you can easily fill out and just provide us the information.
Then we'll go do the editing and put the information in Wiki for you and you can do it this way without having a log on itself.
Or if you sign in then when you're in the Wiki you'll see the edit, where you can edit every item within the Wiki itself.
So, certainly open invitation for you to check that out and give that a whirl and share some of those specific sets of information and knowledge that you are aware of.
Last of ourself help features is what's new.
We're constantly adding to the Wiki.
And actually we're constantly changing the Wiki, most of the time we hope that means improving the entire Family Search site.
So what's new will give you the most recent things that are happen -- have happened as well as you see coming soon some things that we're working on as well.
As we wrap up we have ways that you can contact us.
You can call us, we have 866-406-1830 number.
You can go live chat if you wish.
You can also send us an e-mail through support  @familysearch.org and if you want to access, see where our Family Search centers you can enter ZIP Code we'll show you the closest family history centers you see what hours they're open and a little map to where they're located and such.
So, a lot of investment recently here on help.
So we -- let your patrons know that exists and come to Family Search, as you can see it's pretty powerful.
And people like free.
So, thank you very much and, Jennifer, I think we have a few minutes for additional questions if you wish.
>> Excellent, yes, we do have some great questions.
I'm going to circle back because right as you transitioned from that weekly update, can you let us know where do people select that they would want those weekly updates on a specific person?
>> Yes, thank you, that's a great question because I didn't cover that.
Right under the name, each person's name, their person page, there's a thing that's typically set to "Watch".
If you want to be notified then you click "Watch".
Then Family Search will send you on a weekly basis any changes that have occurred for that person.
You can determine which people you want to be informed of.
At this time I think I'm at 1800 or thereabouts.
I get -- I know I get a weekly message from Family Search.
You really can go through it in a pretty quickly.
>> Wow.
All right.
Let's see.
There was a great question about, if someone can work on a tree or specific person's information at the same time as another family member might be working on it?
>> Yes.
Family search is able to keep that in sync.
>> Very good.
>> You can also refresh your page any time you want.
>> Excellent.
Perfect.
There was a question related to the issue that we know that many immigrants changed or shortened their names --
>> Oh, yes.
>> To become part that have culture is that addressed anywhere on Family Search?
>> I imagine there's a Wiki article that would deal with that.
I don't know specifically.
Seems like it would be the type of -- that we would cover.
And it's one of the things that you have to be fairly flexible.
I mean, some somebody misspells your name you get a little bit annoyed about it.
But back for our ancestors, you know, as I said, names were spelled many different ways and so you have to be flexible and realize that things were different in the past.
>> Excellent.
There was a great question, two related.
One was our non-population census records, for instance, agricultural, accessible through Family Search.
And also another about whether or not native American information is available.
>> For each of those schedules what you can do is search for them, I didn't show it here but where I had this -- on your home search page where it's got the map, it's got a browse feature.
You can go look for, like under the United States or any country, you can look and see what specific collections are online for that.
My recollection is that we have -- family circles has schedules online.
I'm not aware that we have agricultural schedules or manufacturing schedules online.
I could be mistaken but my recollection is we don't yet.
Native American, we do have native American.
There where I put in African American for the -- on the Wiki you can put in native American and see what sort of resources the Wiki says that we have.
Also when you go into the card catalog you can also look for entries under native American or I think sometimes they have it ethnicity and you can see for any particular records for the locality that would deal with native Americans or African herbs or other types of et thinks tease.
>> There's lots of questions coming in here.
There was a question about whether or not information that someone has collected in the an Tess tree database can that be uploaded to Family Search?
>> All of these databases you find something in one you can put it in another.
I've been an an says tore reuser for a really long time so I have my tree there, my personal research tree.
So, yes -- we have partners, Family Search partners with ancestry.
We partly with find my past, and with my heritage, working on ways so that our patrons can use features from both.
Basically the philosophy that Family Search has is that we want our patrons to be successful.
We're really not all that particular whether they use family search or something else, whatever they think is the best.
I think our relationship with ancestry has been most pronounced at this point in terms of sharing resources.
>> Let's see.
There was -- what do you suggest for someone who is leading a session at their library, slides would be helpful or is there -- I would say we don't necessarily encourage people to direct their patrons to WebJunction archives because we tend to be more focused on training library staff.
But I know that you all have lots of learning on Family Search, so if someone was to do sort of a presentation for their own patron community, what would you suggest?
>> The thing that comes to mind first is to check the closest family history center.
There's likely -- there are over 2,000 in the United States.
So there's likely a family history center fairly close and it may be that the director or members of the staff at the family history center already have existing or could easily put together some material and either work with you or come to your group to share information about Family Search.
>> I did post a link -- you can maybe confirm this, there's page on your site that identifies where those family centers are, we're also curious if the affiliated lie wrears show up on that search as well?
1234.
>> That's a good question.
And I don't know the answer to that.
>> Okay.
>> Another comment in terms of finding resources, is that once a year generally in February a thing called roots is hosted in Salt Lake City.
It's a three-day event and has ton of sessions and number of these are available online, I think if you just Google roots 2016 you'd be able to work your way through to those videos.
And they are across the board with a number of them are specific to family search.
>> Excellent.
We are at the top of the hour.
I feel like we could talk for another couple of hours.
There's so much to talk about here.
And we're really excited to be able to have this archive.
We'll be sharing the archive with all of you once it's posted.
And obviously, yes, it will be of great value to any of our colleagues who weren't with us today.
And reminder that if you do have outstanding questions as Jim says the support team at Family Search will be happy to answer those questions.
I really want to thank all of you for coming today and for bringing your knowledge, your new knowledge to your patron communities and very special thanks to Jim for all the great work that you and your community do and for this excellent, excellent orientation to the great services provided at Family Search.
So, thank you all.
Everyone have a fantastic day.
>> Bye everyone.