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1 Family History Centers
Jody Riddick 11/18/2018

2 FamilySearch Onsite Portal from Family History Centers gives access to multiple databases. Look at a few… 11/18/2018

3 WorldVitalRecords WorldVitalRecords (subscription database) available to FHC patrons free. Just changed name to FamilyLink 11/18/2018

4 WorldVitalRecords List of recent databases - notice that even from home, new ones are free for the first 10 days. Let’s look at Mayflower Descendants… 11/18/2018

5 WorldVitalRecords - Search
And search for Fuller 11/18/2018

6 WorldVitalRecords - Results
Here we have the results…I’m going to look at Samuel Fuller 11/18/2018

7 WorldVitalRecords - Samuel Fuller
And I find his information 11/18/2018

8 Footnote™ Footnote is another subscription database 11/18/2018

9 Footnote™ - Pennsylvania Archives
One of the popular databases is the Pennsylvania Archives…for those who have researched these you know that there are multiple volumes and it can be difficult to find what you’re looking for. With Footnote you can search by name, for example, Witz 11/18/2018

10 Footnote™ Results And find all of the results. Here I have the Index to his Naturalization, including an image of the Card. 11/18/2018

11 Godfrey Memorial Library
The Godfrey is a genealogical library in Middletown, Connecticut. Their databases are also available by subscription. However, let’s say you were searching for an individual and came up with a book you would like to see 11/18/2018

12 Godfrey - Search Unfortunately, you can’t get to Connecticut to view this book 11/18/2018

13 Godfrey - Search Results
Is there somewhere else you can find it? 11/18/2018

14 Brigham Young University
LDS is in joint partnerships with a number of organizations to digitize their content. Currently many of the digitized Family Histories are available at the Brigham Young Site 11/18/2018

15 BYU - Family History Archives
We can search in the Digital Collections under the Family History Collections for this book and 11/18/2018

16 Otis Book - Digital Copy
View it online for free 11/18/2018

17 Otis Story Here is the beginning of the Otis Genealogy and there is a great story here…[click] it tells how Richard Otis and his family were captured by the Indians, he and two of his children were killed, but his wife and one other child were captured and sold to the French 11/18/2018

18 FamilySearch Labs - Databases
This is a public feed-back site. All newly indexed material is put here. 11/18/2018

19 FamilySearch Labs 11/18/2018

20 FamilySearch Labs - Search Results
You can click on the camera to go right to the document. 11/18/2018

21 FamilySearch Labs - Image
Note the hand to move around the document. Highlight an area on the yellow copy, and zoom in to any size you want. 11/18/2018

22 FamilySearch Labs - Image Zoom
Your initial search is at the top of every page. 11/18/2018

23 FamilySearch Indexing
How are the indexes created? People like you volunteering. 11/18/2018

24 The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons)
7001 Beneva Road Sarasota, Florida 34238 Tues.-Fri a.m. Thurs. 7-9 p.m. 11/18/2018

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