Tuesday's Tip - Playing at FamilySearch.
Tuesday's Tip - something a little different today - let's play!
Has anyone tried this? And by this I mean a very clever idea from FamilySearch.org that just recently went online. If you have a tree on FamilySearch (and remember it can be of any size - just the families you are working with for research purposes or a version of your entire family tree), now when you are at the Person Page there are links to "the big 4" and you can check out what is available on ancestry.com, findmypast.com, myheritage.com and (of course) familysearch.org that MIGHT be applicable to your person of interest.
If anyone in the LVUG community has tried it, let us know how it works (remember it is in early stages, but a very nice idea in my humble opinion). So perhaps add some family from your Legacy Family Tree to check it out! I am going to give it a shot and will have my thoughts later this week.
https://familysearch.org/blog/en/searchgenealogyrecords/
I just tried it. All it does is open a new page on that website with the search already done. The one problem is that you don't have any control over the search parameters.
ReplyDeleteMichele - do you think they are still working on it because the post about it made it sound like it would contain a bit more information (knowing that it was the person in the FamilySearch tree). Hmm, this might be like the export feature they introduced a while back - it took a couple of weeks to get all the kinks out.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure. It will be convenient to do searches from this one page but I like to have control over the search parameters so I will probably just do searches the old fashioned way. Also, I don't work from the FamilySearch page anyway (at least not normally).
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