Friday, September 25, 2026

Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 19 to 25 September 2026

  The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by "Date Updated" during the period from 19 to 25 September 2026: 

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.

By my count, there are 6 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above. There are now 34,003 collections available as of 25 September, an INCREASE of 5 from last week. 

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Disclosure: I pay for an All-Access subscription from Ancestry.com. In past years, Ancestry.com provided a complimentary All Access subscription, an autosomal DNA test, material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and hosted events and meals that I attended in Salt Lake City.

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Complex Genealogy Use Cases for “ChatGPT Work” - Part 1

I have not used the high-end Artificial Intelligence tools that require a subscription, but I want to stay informed about them and how they can enhance, improve and amplify genealogy and family history work.

Recently, I asked OpenAI ChatGPT5 (the free version) to "Please describe complex use cases that ChatGPT Work could perform for genealogists and family historians."

(AI Google Gemini Notebook Inbfographic - Complex Genealogy Use Cases for ChatGPT Work)

The ChatGPT5 response was (split into two parts - this is Part 1) is:

The big difference is that ordinary ChatGPT answers a genealogy question; ChatGPT Work can take on a genealogy project—researching, navigating websites, handling files, comparing evidence, producing a finished artifact, and continuing through many steps. 

OpenAI describes Work as an agent that can work across apps, files, and the web and stay with complex projects for hours.

For a serious family historian, that opens up some pretty interesting possibilities.

1. A complete “brick-wall investigation”

Imagine giving Work this assignment:

“Investigate the parentage of Devier James Lamphier Smith, born about 1839 in Jefferson County, New York. Use my research files, my family tree, census records, probate, land records, newspapers, court records, and DNA evidence. Identify every plausible parentage hypothesis, test each one against the evidence, document negative evidence, and produce a research report with citations.”

Work could potentially:

  • Search your genealogy files for everything you've already discovered.
  • Examine your tree and existing notes.
  • Search relevant online repositories.
  • Open record images and transcriptions.
  • Build a chronological timeline.
  • Compare households in the 1830 and 1840 censuses.
  • Investigate the Lanfear families in Jefferson County.
  • Examine land transactions and probate.
  • Compare the evidence against your DNA-match hypotheses.
  • Keep track of which sources support or contradict each hypothesis.
  • Produce a research report rather than merely a pile of search results.

That's a fundamentally different workflow from asking, “Who were Devier's parents?”

2. “Research what I already have before searching”

This may actually be one of the most useful applications for you.

You have decades of accumulated genealogy material. Work could be given a folder containing:

  • genealogy sketches
  • PDFs
  • census images
  • obituaries
  • correspondence
  • research notes
  • newspaper articles
  • photographs
  • RootsMagic reports
  • previous blog posts
  • DNA research notes

Then:

“Before doing any new research, determine everything I already know about Sarah Fletcher Kemp. Organize it chronologically, identify contradictions, identify missing evidence, and list research questions.”

Work can work across files and connected file services rather than treating each document as an isolated upload.

For someone with a 75,000+ person tree and thousands of documents, this could be enormously valuable.

3. An automated Genealogical Proof Standard investigation

You could give Work a person and say:

“Evaluate this person according to the Genealogical Proof Standard. Separate original from derivative evidence, analyze source quality, identify conflicting evidence, search for reasonably exhaustive evidence, and tell me what additional research is needed.”

It could create something like:

  • Research question:  "Who were the parents of Sarah Fletcher?"
  • Evidence located:

  1. 1802 birth evidence
  2. 1820 census
  3. 1830 census
  4. marriage record
  5. children's records
  6. probate
  7. land records
  8. cemetery evidence
  9. newspaper evidence

  • Evidence supporting hypothesis A
  • Evidence supporting hypothesis B
  • Evidence contradicting A
  • Unresolved questions
  • Next five searches

That's much closer to having a research assistant than a chatbot.

4. Census reconstruction across multiple decades

Give Work a family and ask:

“Reconstruct this family's household from 1790 through 1880. Find every census household, identify probable members, compare ages and birthplaces, identify neighboring households, and produce a family timeline.”

It could work across multiple census years and websites, rather than you manually opening dozens of pages.

Even better:

“Look at the households surrounding Henry Carringer in 1850, 1860 and 1870. Identify neighbors who may have been relatives, associates, or migration companions.”

That gets into cluster research, which is where genealogy becomes particularly interesting.

5. FAN-club research at scale

This is one I'd especially like for genealogy.

Instead of researching only:  Henry Carringer

Work could research:

  • Friends
  • Associates
  • Neighbors
  • witnesses
  • sponsors
  • employers
  • landlords
  • business partners
  • nearby families
  • people appearing in probate
  • people appearing in land transactions

Then ask:

“Determine whether any of these people provide evidence about Henry Carringer's origins.”

Work could build a cluster map and identify connections that you might otherwise overlook.

6. Land-record research

Land records are notoriously tedious.

A Work assignment could be:

“Find every land transaction involving Henry Carringer in Mercer County, Pennsylvania between 1825 and 1855. Extract grantor, grantee, dates, acreage, locations, witnesses, adjoining landowners and consideration. Put everything into chronological order and identify relationships.”

The result could be a spreadsheet such as:

Date

Grantor

Grantee

Acres

Location

Witnesses

Significance

1831

…

Henry Carringer

40

Sandy Lake

…

First appearance

1837

…

Henry Carringer

25

…

…

Adjacent tract

1849

Henry Carringer

…

15

…

…

Possible relocation

That turns hours of clerical work into an organized research dataset.

7. Probate investigation

Give Work:

“Investigate the probate of John Smith of Jefferson County, New York. Identify every person named in the probate documents, classify each person's relationship to John if stated or implied, and compare the names with the 1830 and 1840 census.”

It could potentially:

  • locate the probate file
  • download documents
  • OCR handwritten pages where possible
  • transcribe them
  • identify names
  • compare names against your tree
  • construct a relationship hypothesis
  • flag discrepancies

And importantly, you could tell it:

Do not infer a relationship unless the evidence supports it.

That's exactly the sort of constraint that makes AI much more useful for genealogy.

8. Newspaper mining

This one could become addictive.

Suppose you have 500 newspaper references to Seavers.

You could say:

“Search these newspapers for members of the Seaver family from 1850–1920. Extract every article that mentions a Seaver. Classify each as birth, marriage, death, accident, employment, travel, legal matter, social event, military service, property, or miscellaneous. Eliminate duplicates.”

Then:

“Identify events that are not currently represented in my genealogy database.”

That's a very powerful gap-finding operation.

9. Automatically turning research into source-based biographies

You could give Work:

  • census records
  • vital records
  • newspapers
  • military records
  • land records
  • photographs
  • your genealogical sketch

and say:

“Write a 2,000-word biography of Isaac Seaver. Every factual assertion must be traceable to one of the supplied sources. Separate documented facts from reasonable historical context. Do not invent dialogue or undocumented events.”

Then another instruction:

“Now create a second version written as a historical narrative, clearly labeling reconstructed scenes as plausible rather than documented.”

That would fit beautifully with your ancestor-story workflow.

10. “Find the holes in my tree”

This is a particularly interesting Work project.

“Analyze my family tree for people who have a birth event but no birth source, a marriage event but no marriage source, a death event but no death source, or census gaps of ten years or more.”

Then: “Rank these research tasks by the number of descendants potentially affected.”

Not a ranking of people—rather, a research-priority list based on objective criteria you specify.

Work could then attack those problems one at a time.


Part 2 will follow shortly with ten more examples.

The Google Gemini Notebook video for this topic is on my YouTube channel here, and also below.

In every complex genealogy use case on this list, there are questions like "how can this be done?" and "what information, and in what format, do I need to provide?"  

A big challenge for many of these complex use cases is that records needed are behind a commercial website paywall (e.g., Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast, American Ancestors).  Some of those websites have explicit restrictions on any AI tool being used to use the website to find records and information.  They require the subscription user to do the searches. 

It is evident that ChatGPT Work, like Claude CoWork, relies on an ongoing dialogue between the user and the AI tool for many use cases, and requires access to the user's files that have the records to be analyzed.

Some of these ten use cases can be performed using the free version of ChatGPT; for instance, #9, "Automatically turning research into sourced-based biographies."

Other researchers have performed some of these use cases using ChatGPT Work, Claude CoWork, and other AI Tools.

I may write blog posts about some of these complex use cases to answer those questions about them. 

Note that ChatGPT5 uses my own research names, dates and places as examples for these use cases.

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Links to my blog posts about using Artificial Intelligence are on my Randy's AI and Genealogy page.  Links to AI information and articles about Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy by other genealogists are on my AI and Genealogy Compendium page.

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Findmypast Friday: Discover Even More Records From the Prestigious Royal School of Needlework

  I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Delve into the stories behind the embroidery this week.

This week's two new collections offer an in-depth insight into the Royal School of Needlework between 1889 and 1946.

With records for both teaching staff and students, you can glimpse what it was like to study and work at this unique school in years gone by.

Royal School of Needlework Teaching Staff Records

This new collection comprises 5,140 staff records from the Royal School of Needlework.

Royal School Of Needlework Student Records

This week's second new set contains 3,441 records, spanning 1895 to 1944.

New titles from Aberdeen to Armagh

We've added three new titles to our newspaper archive this week. We've also updated 22 existing publications, with a total of 266,842 pages added.

New titles:
  • Highbridge and Burnham Gazette, 1874, 1877
  • Musician of the Salvation Army, 1897–1985
  • Portadown Express and County Armagh Advertiser, 1906–1920
Updated titles:
  • Aberdeen Press and Journal, 1748–1959, 1963–2008
  • Argyllshire Advertiser, 1887–1888, 1974–1975, 1986, 1988–1994
  • Banffshire Advertiser, 1881–1902, 1905–1982, 1986–1989
  • Bicycling News, 1877, 1885–1887, 1890–1893
  • Birmingham Weekly Mercury, 1889, 1897, 1912, 1918–1921, 1923–1945, 1947–1999, 2001–2003, 2005
  • Blyth News Post Leader, 1986–2004
  • Catholic Standard, 1933–1963
  • Church in the West, 1885–1886, 1888, 1890–1891
  • Co-operative News, 1876, 1881, 1885, 1887–1888, 1890–1891, 1893
  • Doncaster Chronicle, 1889, 1950
  • East Cumberland News, 1898, 1900–1901
  • Hertford Mercury and Reformer, 1834–1837, 1840–1889, 1897, 1913, 1916–1918, 1939, 1950, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963–1967, 1980–1999, 2002, 2004–2005
  • Isle of Wight County Press, 1884–1919
  • Knutsford Guardian, 1911–1913, 1919
  • Lloyd's List, 1801–1884, 1887–1890, 1892–1894, 1896–1919
  • Macclesfield Express, 1981–2003
  • Nation and The Athenaeum, 1907–1931
  • Pink (Newcastle), 1987–1990, 1993–1999
  • Shipping World and Herald of Commerce, 1883–1918
  • St. Mary Cray & Swanley Express, 1900–1917
  • Uxbridge Leader, 1986–2005
  • Wokingham Times, 1931–1942, 1944–1958, 1977–1981, 1983–1999, 2001–2002
Rise, Power, Ruin: A Family History of the Industrial Revolution

Forgotten workers. Remarkable archive discoveries. For this special episode, Jen Baldwin is joined by National Trust curators Helen Antrobus and Lauren Collier for a peek behind the scenes.

Watch the video on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EAVWxz0tE

Together, they explore why the story of Ironbridge is far from finished.

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 18 to 24 September 2026

 The following Record Collections were ADDED or Updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of 18 to 24 September 2026:

The number of collections at the top of the list shows 1,729 collections (an increase of 6 from last week) with  41,086,067,445 records (an increase of over 10 million records from last week).  The list above shows no ADDED collections.  

I collected the latest numbers for the Family Tree collections from the "Number of Records" list which has the Family Tree collections (and a total of 1,729 collections).
 The number of entries in the family tree collections were last updated this week.

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See previous Genea-Musings posts about MyHeritage record collections and features in https://www.geneamusings.com/search/label/MyHeritage.com.

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The Life of Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952) in Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario in 1883

I wondered if the FREE AI tools could provide me with information about my great-grandmother Georgianna Kemp's life at age 15 in Norfolk County, Ontario in 1883.  The ABC Biography for Georgianna is in ABC Biography of #15 Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952) of Ontario, Illinois, and California.

My Prompt for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 was:  "Please describe the life of 14-year-old Georgianna Kemp in Norfolk County, Ontario in 1883, based on the attached biography. Consider family, work, education, community activities, entertainment, fun."

(AI Gemini Notebook infographic -- Georgianna Kemp's Life at Age 14 in 1883)

Here is the Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 response:

Georgianna Kemp's Life in 1883 in Norfolk County, Ontario At Age 14

Family Situation

In 1883, fourteen-year-old Georgianna lived in Middleton township, Norfolk County, Ontario, with her father James A. Kemp (age 51), her stepmother Melissa Wilson Kemp (age 37), and her brother James (age 10) and half-brother Alfred (age 3). Her stepmother, whom she had now lived with for seven years since her father's 1876 remarriage, was firmly established as the head of the household's domestic operations. It was a blended family, but by now the relationships had settled into their patterns.

Her older sisters Sarah (age 20) and Melvina—nicknamed "Minnie" (age 16)—were no longer living under their father's roof. Sarah may have entered domestic service in nearby Delhi, a common path for young women of their class and era. Minnie was residing in Windham with her Sovereen grandparents. Sarah would have had limited freedom but gained some independence and modest wages. Despite their separation from the family home, they likely visited when they could manage time away from their living place, bringing news from Delhi and Windham township and maintaining their bonds with Georgianna and their younger brothers.

Education

At fourteen, Georgianna was still attending school, which was typical for rural Ontario children of the 1880s. Most young people in farming and artisan communities would have had access to a one-room schoolhouse where they learned basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and moral instruction. Given that her father was a carpenter with some means and the family was respectable, it's likely Georgianna received a reasonable education for a girl of her time—enough to read well, write a clear hand, and manage household accounts, skills that would serve her well in her future life.

However, school attendance was often interrupted by seasonal work and family needs, and by fourteen, formal education was winding down. Her real education now was increasingly practical: learning the skills she would need as a wife and mother, or potentially as a servant herself if circumstances required it.

Household Chores and Work

Georgianna's days were filled with the endless work required to run a rural household. Under her stepmother Melissa's direction, she would have helped with cooking, cleaning, mending, and laundry—the heavy physical labor of maintaining a home without modern conveniences. Doing laundry alone was an all-day affair: heating water over the fire, scrubbing clothes on a washboard, wringing them out, and hanging them to dry. In winter, this work was particularly grueling.

The garden would have been her particular responsibility as the season progressed. She would have helped plant seeds in spring, tended the vegetables through summer, and harvested them in fall for preserving—canning, pickling, and storing for the winter months. Every vegetable grown meant food security for the family. She likely helped milk any cows they kept, churn butter, and tend to chickens. Caring for her youngest half-brother Alfred, now three years old, would also have fallen partly to her—the traditional role of an older sister in a large household.

The Kemp household was not wealthy, but her father's carpentry trade provided steady, respectable work. The family would have been self-sufficient in food production and maintained a modest but orderly home. Hard work was simply the fabric of daily life.

Community and Church

The Kemp family's life was firmly anchored in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Sunday services would have been a cornerstone of their week—a time for worship, social connection, and moral instruction. As a young woman, Georgianna would have been expected to attend faithfully and to conduct herself with propriety and piety. The church taught values of hard work, honesty, temperance, and family duty that shaped her character.

Beyond church, the rural community of Middleton township was small and interconnected. Everyone knew everyone. There would have been barn raisings where neighbors gathered to help build or repair structures, harvests where community members assisted each other, and social gatherings centered around church events. Georgianna would have known the families around her, attended picnics or gatherings, and been part of the tight social fabric of rural life.

Entertainment and Recreation

Entertainment was modest by modern standards. There was the social life of the church—Sunday services, prayer meetings, church socials, and perhaps Sunday School gatherings where young people could interact under supervised circumstances. These were precious opportunities for a girl like Georgianna to see friends and, in a few years, to be noticed by suitable young men.

Reading was likely a source of pleasure if books were available—perhaps the Bible, hymnals, or perhaps some modest fiction if the family had access to such materials. Storytelling around the fire on winter evenings would have been entertainment, as would simple games and pastimes with her brothers and visiting sisters.

Seasonal activities punctuated the year: sleighing in winter, picnicking in summer, gathering berries and nuts in autumn. The natural rhythms of rural life provided their own entertainment—the changing seasons, the work of harvest, the simple pleasures of outdoor life in Ontario's beautiful landscape.

As a Wesleyan Methodist girl of fourteen in rural Ontario, Georgianna's life was defined by work, faith, family, and community. In just seven years, she would make the daring decision to leave all of this behind for the unknown opportunities of Chicago. But in 1883, she was still firmly rooted in the life her father had built for her in Middleton township.

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The Google NotebookLM Video Overview of this story is on my YouTube channel, and below: 

After I read these types of social history summaries, I wish that I could be a time traveler for one day to visit the Kemp family in Ontario in 1883 and witness their daily lives.  I'm glad that the general lifestyles and occupations are known from historical records and witness accounts.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - 1609 Baptism of Thomas Gleson (1609-1686) in Cockfield, Suffolk, England

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1609 baptism record for Thomas Gleson in the Cockfield, Suffolk, England parish registers: 

The baptism record for Thomas Gleson is the first entry on the page in the 1609 section for Baptisms (continued from the page before):


The transcription of the baptism entry is:

" Thomas Sonne of Thomas Gleson bap. the 3. of September [1609]"

The source citation for this record is:

Cockfield, Suffolk, England Parish Register, Thomas Gleson baptism record, 3 September 1609, son of Thomas Gleson; imaged, Ancestry.com   (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62751/images/62751_372055000018_1450-00040), "Suffolk, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812," > Cockfield, 1561-1760 > image 39 of 248. 
This is an image of an Original Source record in the Cockfield Parish Register for St. Peter's Church with the baptism of Thomas Gleson, son of Thomas Glrson in Cockfield, Suffolk, England.  It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of Thomas Gleson's name, baptism date, and his father's name.
Thomas Gleson (1609-1686) was the son of Thomas and Anne (Armesby) Gleson of Cockfield, who married 28 October 1602 in Cockfield.  The son Thomas Gleson married Susannah Page (1614-1691), the daughter of Thomas and Susanna (--?--) Page, on 31 July 1634 in Cockfield, Suffolk, England, and they had 10 children.  Thomas and Susannah (Page) Gleson migrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1640s, settling in Watertown. 
Thomas and Susannah (Page) Gleson are my 9th great-grandparents, through their son Joseph Gleason (1640-1715) who married Martha Russell (1647-1684) in 1667.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

FamilySearch News: Registration Opens for RootsTech 2027, the World’s Premier Family History Event

I received this information from FamilySearch today:

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 Registration Opens for RootsTech 2027, the World’s Premier Family History Event

FamilySearch announces genetic genealogy expert CeCe Moore and actress and philanthropist Jane Seymour as keynote speakers for RootsTech 2027, held 4–6 March 2027, online and in Salt Lake City, with the theme “Celebrate!”

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, 23 September 2026—Registration is now open for RootsTech 2027, the world’s premier family history event, taking place 4–6 March 2027, both online and in person in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hosted by FamilySearch International, RootsTech invites people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate family connections, discover their heritage, and learn new ways to preserve and share family stories. This announcement can be found and shared in the FamilySearch Newsroom.

The theme for RootsTech 2027—“Celebrate!”—encourages participants to see family history as a living celebration of people, cultures, and stories that connect generations. 

 

RootsTech 2027 at a Glance

  • Event: RootsTech 2027, hosted by FamilySearch International
  • Dates: 4–6 March 2027
  • Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, and online worldwide
  • Theme: “Celebrate!”
  • Keynote speakers: CeCe Moore, Jane Seymour, and others to be announced
  • Cost: Free to attend online; early bird pricing now available for in-person registration
  • Registration: Open at RootsTech.org

RootsTech has announced the first two keynote speakers who will take the stage in Salt Lake City, Utah: 

CeCe Moore


An internationally recognized DNA investigative expert, educator, and pioneer in genetic genealogy, CeCe Moore has helped transform the way people use DNA to discover family connections and solve longstanding mysteries. Her work has been featured in thousands of articles and television programs worldwide, and she has served 13 seasons as the genetic genealogist on the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. 

Moore’s groundbreaking work has demonstrated the remarkable impact of family history research and DNA analysis, helping establish genetic genealogy as an essential tool for learning more about our ancestors. 

Jane Seymour


Award-winning actress, author, and philanthropist Jane Seymour has inspired audiences for more than five decades across television, film, stage, and literature. Best known to many for her Golden Globe-winning role in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Seymour’s work extends beyond entertainment through her dedication to philanthropic causes and family-centered storytelling. 

In 2010, she founded the Open Hearts Foundation, inspired by the philosophy of resilience and selfless giving passed down by her mother. Today, the foundation supports nonprofits that help individuals transform adversity into opportunity, and it has provided grants to organizations throughout the United States.

Discover What Else Is Coming to RootsTech 2027

RootsTech 2027 attendees can participate in hundreds of classes and interactive experiences designed for both beginners and family history enthusiasts. The event will also feature an in-person and virtual expo hall, opportunities to connect with relatives and friends around the world, and expert-led sessions exploring the latest innovations in genealogy and family discovery. 

“We invite attendees to see family history as a living celebration of the past, present, and future,” said Jonathan Wing, director of events for FamilySearch International. “We celebrate the heritage that grounds us, the cultures that enrich us, the stories that connect us, and the relationships that continue to grow across generations.”

Registration for the RootsTech 2027 online experience is free for all participants. Early bird pricing is now available for those attending in person in Salt Lake City, Utah.

To learn more or to register, visit RootsTech.org. 

About RootsTech

RootsTech is the world’s premier family history and genealogy conference, hosted annually by FamilySearch International. Held in person in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online for a global audience, RootsTech brings together people of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels to learn, share, and celebrate family connections. The conference features hundreds of classes, forums, keynote speakers, an in-person and virtual expo hall, and interactive experiences designed for beginners and lifelong researchers alike. Learn more at RootsTech.org.

About FamilySearch

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 125 years. People access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 6,500 FamilySearch centers in 129 countries, including the main FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Disclosure: I was a RootsTech 2026 "Influencer" (and one from 2012 to 2026) and will probably be one for 2027. I anticipate being an online participant in 2027 because of my health issues.

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