Georgia, Ohio, Texas and Washington Death Records

I’ve spent quite a few hours on FamilySearch labs over the past few weeks gathering death records to add to the sourcing of records in my databases.  see http://www.familysearchlabs.org
If you haven’t visited the site for a while, you will be surprised at the list of titles that have been indexed by volunteers over the [...]

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FamilySearch Indexing – We Need You

FamilySearch Indexing has the promise of becoming the premier tool for family history enthusiasts. We’ve read the announcements about the partnerships between the Family History Society / FamilySearch and many large historical resource companies.
If you haven’t read about the scope of FamilySearch Indexing, start here with the church article about the Scanstone project.
The wonderful [...]

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FamilySearch Indexing – Document Preview

The LDS church is letting a limited number of folks preview the new FamilySearch Indexing images …. If you decide to sign up, go to this page and click on the ‘Register to use Records Search’ below the login box…
Be sure to watch the video that shows how the program works [...]

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Life Browser and other goodies

The folks in the FamilySearch Labs are at it again. I’m certainly happy to see the church turn this small group ‘loose’ to create wonderful web based tools for Family History Research…..
Recently, they asked for comments on a new tool they are creating called ‘Life Browser‘. When I looked at it, [...]

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