Do You Need Help With Your Family History?

What happens if you decide you want to start investigating your family history? Where do you go for help? From my own standpoint, there is an overwhelming flood of information about beginning to do family history research but the real question is do you want to do family history research, i.e. find out about your family or are you merely looking for a "name to take to the Temple." Taking a name to the Temple has just become easier with the new Ordinances Ready app. This app is available on the Family Tree App for both Apple iOS and Android. The Ordinances Ready app is also linked from your Temple Reserved page on the FamilySearch.org website. By using the app, you can quickly find a name to take to the Temple. Our experience with the app so far shows that it is fairly accurate an avoids some of the issues involved in just looking for and clicking on green Temple icons.

Now, if you are really interested in finding out about your family and helping to find additional family members to add to those already in the FamilySearch.org Family Tree, you could sign in to FamilySearch.org and click on the Help link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

There is quite a list of links that include the following:

The Help Center

This is mostly links to places where you can find additional help. Of course, you can guess what is coming next. You can start with the comprehensive, structured, completely organized website; The Family History Guide.

Now, the advantage of The Family History Guide is that it links to thousands of additional resources. So it is really a one-stop solution to learning about family history. Please click on the Quick Tour and Get Started links if it is your first time on the website. By the way, The Family History Guide links to most of the resources you will find in the FamilySearch Help menu.