Family History Tips and Tricks

You need to thoroughly check the sources before reserving available ordinances for relatives on FamilySearch.org or you run the risk of missing people who need ordinances done. In this video, I show how a husband and multiple children would be missed if I didn't check the sources, since there were unfinished attachments in the sources that led to multiple instances of a spouse and children for the relative I was looking at. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The target audience of this channel is members of the Church of Jesus Christ who are doing temple work for dead relatives. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions. I found this person using Virtual Pedigree, my favorite tool for finding cousins who need temple ordinances done. Here is a link to virtual pedigree (https://virtual-pedigree.familytech.byu.edu/login/) and here is a link to my review of Virtual Pedigree https://rumble.com/v1dchg1-finding-temple-ordinances-for-cousins-with-virtual-pedigree.html

You need to thoroughly check the sources before reserving available ordinances for relatives on FamilySearch.org or you run the risk of missing people who need ordinances done. In this video, I show how a husband and multiple children would be missed if I didn't check the sources, since there were unfinished attachments in the sources that led to multiple instances of a spouse and children for the relative I was looking at. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The target audience of this channel is members of the Church of Jesus Christ who are doing temple work for dead relatives. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions. I found this person using Virtual Pedigree, my favorite tool for finding cousins who need temple ordinances done. Here is a link to virtual pedigree (https://virtual-pedigree.familytech.byu.edu/login/) and here is a link to my review of Virtual Pedigree https://rumble.com/v1dchg1-finding-temple-ordinances-for-cousins-with-virtual-pedigree.html

Virtual Pedigree is my favoriye tool for doing descendancy research to find relatives who need temple ordinances done, but I didn't know if it worked on a phone instead of a computer (I jave an Android fyi). Here, I show you that it does!! (Context: I'm a member of the Churxh of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) I'll update this later with a link to the other video where I explai. virtual pedigree more in-depth.

I review Puzzilla.org as a tool for conducting family history work. I use the free version and the premium version ($40/yr w/ 30 day free trial). Verdict: the premium version has some great tools if you're willing to pay (I'm not)

I'm Mark Lindsay, and today I'm reviewing the GET INVOLVED app. I think it is a very useful tool for doing indexing on your phone. It only takes a couple minutes, and it's super easy and user-friendly. (indexing is the digitization of records for doing Family History work in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) In the GET INVOLVED app, you check other people's indexing work. You see a record and a name someone else has typed. You click "Match" if the name and record match up, "edit" if you think the record and name are different, or "unsure" if you can't tell. That's it! It's a great way to participate in family history work.

Want to find temple ordinances on Familysearch.org but don't know where to start? I show you a handy tool or two that familysearch has that help you find ordinances ready for use in the temple. The tools are called Hints and Tasks, and I show you where they are and how to use them. HOWEVER, these auto-generated hints are not always accurate. I show an example of a hint that leads to an person who I don't think is properly listed in familysearch, so I don't feel comfortable reserving the suggested ordinances.

I review Puzzilla.org as a tool for conducting family history work. I use the free version and the premium version ($40/yr w/ 30 day free trial). Verdict: the premium version has some great tools if you're willing to pay (I'm not)

I show how to do indexing on FamilySearch.

I show how to reserve temple ordinances in FamilySearch for deceased family members who do not have all of their ordinances completed.

I go through the basics and fun tools of FamilySearch, a family history tool developed and used by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to find ancestors and relatives who have not had all their temple ordinances done.

Virtual Pedigree is a family history tool that I use to find cousins who still need temple ordinances. Here, I show how to use Virtual Pedigree to find some cousins without all their temple work.