Family Search Blog Updates

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I cannot stress enough about how valuable the Family Search Blog Updates have become.  The blog can be found as a link at the bottom of the homepage and every staff member should check in weekly for the news.  In fact anyone using the site should do so.  They have stopped revising the official manual updates for the use of Family Search because so many new and exciting things are being added each week or so.  Sometimes it is even faster than that.  These enhancements just keep making it better and easier to use.  Don't miss out on the news.  Check this out from them on the blog today.

FamilySearch Online Training is a Click Away

"March 10, 2014 By Steve Anderson

One of the great challenges that face any organization that makes use of technology is providing easy to use and useful help about how to use the products the company offers. FamilySearch.org deals with this challenge every day. In our efforts to continually provide a better research experience for everyone who uses FamilySearch, we are continually adding more useful features, databases and upgrades. One of the big challenges we face is keeping our training up to date.

One solution that FamilySearch has chosen to use to address this problem is to add online training that can be updated quickly and easily. This means that we no longer create large expensive paper manuals and instruction booklets, which quickly become outdated with each new improvement.

Some of our most useful and popular training has been put online for you to use quickly and easily. Links to this training are found below. If you click on any of the training items and they don’t appear, check to make sure that your popup blocker isn’t the reason. If it is, go into popup options and allow FamilySearch popups to appear.

• The Training Material link will take you to a rich menu of training options. Simply click on the link of the item you want to use.

• The FamilySearch Family Tree Curriculum link will take you to a whole selection of training content. It provides training on how to use a computer mouse, basic beginner training, intermediate training, advanced training and the option to view training in Spanish.

• The Family Tree Quick Start Guide is a 7 page PDF File explaining how to quickly and easily get into and use some of the most basic and popular features of Family Tree.

• The Family Tree Reference Manual is a 204 page PDF file that provides extensive in-depth coverage on all features of the Family Tree. Please note that about 5% of this manual is already out of date. Within the next several months this manual will be redesigned and posted in smaller sections that will allow for faster and easier updates.

• The FamilySearch Learning Center is a library of several hundred classes and video presentations that teach you how to use various FamilySearch features as well as how to do research on a wide variety of genealogical topics.

• The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a collection of over 76,000 research article covering some area of genealogy and family history research. These articles are written and updated by experts from around the world.

These are the most commonly used training tools we offer. We try our best to keep these training tools as up to date and as easy to use as possible."

Steve Anderson is one of the regular bloggers and always gives get tips for improving our use of the website.  They all do.  Make a commitment to read it once a week!  You won't be sorry.  Bonnie