FamilySearch Wiki: How to Use the Free Genealogy Research Guide

The FamilySearch Wiki will help you find online genealogy records or other hard-to-find records that might be hiding in archives & libraries. This is your first stop in genealogy research.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction
00:57 Where Do I Find Genealogy Records?
01:29 Using the Wiki to Find More Genealogy Records

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[sherryab]

Wow, thanks for the tip and I just discovered this channel and I’m so happy!!!!

[constanza]

Oh. That's great. I was looking for records in Italy. Wiki has a page for "handwritting", including some italian and latin key words to find on the documents. So helpful! And I have to check it a little longer. I think they have differences between Wiki pages in spanish and pages in english.

I generally use the catalog in my research: i cannot find any of my relatives with the simple search machine, so I have to go to browse by place and search on the scanned books for all the registers. That's a lot of work, but it's given me some great discoveries.

[dreamawhatley]

@Family History Fanatics : I've written a couple of people with the information that I have. Some of it is just educated guesses. 1: Babies born at 3 months gestation did not survive in 1839.
2: And most likely, except a child had died, a second sibling's name would not have been the same as the sibling born right before they had been born.
3: John Boyer #1 was born in January 1839 and I found where he is buried.
4: All of the children were born in one town (I forgot the name) then my ancestor was born in Rochester - I didn't know there were TWO Rochester's! - then moved back to the previous town to have the remaining children? My instinct says 'no', but it's not beyond the realm of possibilities.
5: I've found the parents and at least one sibling (I'd have to go check) in documentation in Michigan as well as they are buried in Michigan.
6: And as of the other day, I went back to the DNA matches and every single DNA match leads to my John Clinton Boyer.
7: I checked to see if the supposed father's descendants had any matches to myself or any of the DNA matches from John Clinton. The answer to that was no. I've emailed at least one of the DNA matches with the second John Clinton and I'm intending to email a couple more to see if they have taken a DNA test and no one is showing up.
I still have found zero records linking New York to my ancestor.
And he has also stated on his Census records that his parents were born in various different places, all the way from Penn/NY to France/France. bangs head on wall I think aliens dropped him off in Arkansas right before the Civil War.
Anyway, I'm putting together the Genealogy strategy you have suggested. As I'm 'writing up' information, I'm also writing out questions.
Could he have been running from the law?
Was he an orphan?
He had the 'audacity' to be born the year before they started recording births in NY and died the year before they started recording deaths in Arkansas. I found some information that he and his first family (he was married twice) were in Texas at some point, but they were back in Arkansa by 1882.
If I am missing anything, please let me know and thank you so very much! I know I'm horribly long-winded.
Those I have spoken to dispute my hypothesis.

[youtubeusername]

Thanks! I’ve never actually found an ancestor before, but I noticed a blank spot on my family tree and wanted to try! Now I have another resource to help!

[ndChanceCrafting]

Wow, this is mind-blowing information. Thank you!

[junecasselman]

How do I check Wiki for the West Indies? The Caribbean does not show on the Wiki map.

[michaelmccuin]

I found some Ancestors Quick from the House of Names then Wiki. THIS Ancestor was A famous Poet which worked with The Royal House of Stewart

[dreamawhatley]

I have been searching for my great grandfather for years. I've found quite a few records as to where he was in the 1860's and on, but nothing to point to who his parents were. I have people adding one specific person to as his parent, and evidence I've found has eliminated this particular person. I also share no DNA data with any of the persons who are related to my supposed great grandfather.

[smpylman]

What makes wiki more reliable or accurate even truthful than another site or way or resources?

[mariacapaldi]

I have not been utilizing FamilySearch Research Wiki enough, time to change that🧐

[millsy]

Im starting to use family search finding some interesting stuff about my family I want to further back, their one thing I can't figure out how to do is how can you find your ancestors even you don't know nothing about them even their name

[jamiewebb]

What do i do i i have a name, date, and, place of death and state of birth., but family just lost, gone. Thank you, just starting out

[PaolaRodriguez-rdqi]

I need help with mine please, I don’t know what to do and I don’t know my grandparents birth year or where they’re born and my parents won’t tell me

[levyzimand]

What do you do if all you know is the name and some what of the location

[baseermirza]

Hi I'm a 14 year old boy interested in discovering more abt my family tree. My family is from Kashmir in Pakistan/India. My uncle sparked this interest in me as 30 years ago he was able to trace his 18 times great grandfather all through the males of the family. He was able to do this as at the time, each village had a RAH whose only job was to record each and every event. He found the grandson of our old village Rah who let him examine the texts. My 13 times great grandfather was a man named Raja Parmes Dev, which is surprising as this is a hindu name and we are muslim. It's also surprising as we are ethnically from the areas of central asian, far from the Rajas of central india. I was hoping to expand on this knowledge through the use of family Wiki but to no avail. I know this is a very long comment but can you please give me some tips. It would be much appreciated. I think its because lots of records india/pakistan are still kept in texts and much have not been posted online. Then again any advice would be received with thanks. Thankyou if you read this far :)

[sharonm]

Looking for obituary for susan young 1880s

[drutter]

So it's a bunch of links to potential sources of info? A bit like a search engine? This video didn't explain what was so special about that tab on famiysearch. Seems mostly pointless after watching this clip.

[baseermirza]

Anyone else here doing research in India/pakistan. I desperately need some advice. I'm new to this whole thing and I'm finding that region to be very difficult

[jamileepiatt]

How can i find out when my parents were married

[TylerRayMattersRUAC]

geni.com findagrave.com and many other websites have family trees and links to parents and relatives. Some go back over a thousand years or more. Searching names with dates is a good way to start. If you hit Royal lines, much more likely it will go way back. I found a lot there. I have a family scrapbook that got passed down, so I found some there. Goes back to Schwenckfeld in Prussia that changed their name to See and married into Chief Cornstalk's family. Doesn't go far back into Prussia, just to George Schwenckfeld (See). They were exiled as the Schwenckfeld family apparently, changing the name in the 1740s. Just what it said. Weird.