WHAT'S NEW IN NEW FAMILYSEARCH

©2010 by Donald R. Snow

• Instructors are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu , dms34@juno.com ) of Provo, Utah; St. George, Utah; and Nauvoo, Illinois.
• These notes with active Internet links are posted on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website http://uvtagg.org under Class Outlines , Don's Listings .  Many other class notes for family history are linked on the UVTAGG website also.
• This class will be a discussion of the latest things the programmers have added to new FamilySearch.

• New FamilySearch URL -- https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome -- Note the "s" after http - signifies this is a secure website -- You have to register using your LDS Membership Number and confirmation date
• Miles Meyer's Family History Resources webpage has map of Temple Districts and new FamilySearch -- http://milesmeyer.googlepages.com/
• Gary Turner's New Family History page -- http://newfamilyhistory.googlepages.com/home -- has a slide show "New FamilySearch" that shows the new concept that records are combined into "file folders" and not merged, so nothing is every lost, and that nFS incorporates several databases
• 198-page nFS Manual, pdf format -- A User’s Guide to the New FamilySearch Web Site (August 2009) -- go to Help Center > nFS Overview and Guides > New FamilySearch Overviews and Guides 
• 74-page nFS Manual, pdf format, by George Scott -- http://www.usingfamilysearch.com/ -- very helpful and understandable
• KnowledgeBase articles on "What's New" -- go to nFS Helps -- KB 1012406 shows new features as of Dec 2009
• 15-minute Tutorial - Navigating and Finding Information -- go to Help Center on nFS > nFS Overview and Guides 

1. If you are not registered for new FamilySearch, talk to your Ward Clerk and get a copy of your Summary of Ordinances sheet.  See if it needs any corrections.  Use the information (LDS Membership Number and Confirmation Date) to register for nFS.
2. Download the new FamilySearch pdf Manual from the nFS Help Center and look through it briefly.
3. Go to the Help Center on nFS and read the Knowledge Base article on What's New.