Our workshop this week was "interesting," as the projector was not working and we had to improvise. (It was still not fixed this morning for the computer club.) We were going to focus on "Images" and "Genealogies" on FamilySearch.
Instead of a formal presentation, everyone accessed FamilySearch and we looked first at the images selection under "search." Each member tried one of their ancestors' birthplace or another location where they might have lived. We learned a bit about how this area of the database was created and how to navigate through the digitized microfilms. You can only search for locations in this part of the website.
We also looked at genealogies where many of the "old" submissions of family trees are kept. If you upload your family tree, this is where you will find it. It is possible to search the entire section at once, or you can choose either the Ancestral File, the Pedigree Resource File or the IGI section separately.
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