1. ‘I have never tried to find my ancestors, How can the new FamilySearch help me?’

2. The New FamilySearch (nFS)

3. The Research Process  1. Identify what you know.Identify what you know  2. Decide what you want to learn.Decide what you want to learn  3. Select a record to search.Select a record to search  4. Find and search the record.Find and search the record  5. Use the information.Use the information

4. This time start with a letter  Let’s start with something you have in your possession.  The document has information  The record causes you to ask questions  Analyze the letter

5. You Possess a Letter

6. 1. Identify what you know.Identify what you know  Letter written in Payson, Utah  Dated January 1959  Letter to Mrs. Young  Widow of Ezra Bain Lewellen since 1933  Ezra son of James Harrison and Sarah Louisa Keeth  Ezra’s mother sister of Mrs. Young’s deceased husband  Signed Mrs. Lillian Lewellen Hancock

7. 2. Decide what you want to learn.Decide what you want to learn  Who was Mrs. Young?  Who was Mrs. Young’s husband?  When did he die?  Who was his mother?  Who was Lillian Lewellen Hancock?  Does the information found in the letter match what you see on nFS?

8. “Pedigree Analysis”  What do I already know?  What does this suggest?

9. 3. Select records to search.Select records to search  Search Lillian Lewellen Hancock on nFS

10. Refine search if necessary

11. Analyze the available records What matches?

12. Were your expectations met?

13. 3. Select records to search.Select records to search  Select Lillian Eva Lewellen’s record to see more on her mother  A  B  Click on her mother to view her record

14. 3. Select records to search.Select records to search  View her spouses

16. 4. Obtain and search the records.Obtain and search the records  Check the box of record from possible duplicates to compare  Compare the 2 columns of the 2 records  Click on any underlined name  Compare all relationships of each underlined name  Check the contributors – do you know any?  What sources are attached to the records?

17. 5. Use the information.Use the information  Decide if the same, combine  Is this the correct person?  Anything you add to nFS is instantly viewable by anyone registered.

18. Identify What You Know  Letter written in Payson, Utah  Dated January 1959  Letter to Mrs. Young  Widow of Ezra Bain Lewellen since 1933  Ezra son of James Harrison and Sarah Louisa Keeth  Ezra’s mother sister of Mrs. Young’s deceased husband  Signed Mrs. Lillian Lewellen Hancock

19. What Do You Want To Learn?  Who was Mrs. Young?  Who was Mrs. Young’s husband?  When did he die?  Who was his mother?  Who was Lillian Lewellen Hancock?  Is the information about these people on nFS correct?

20. Select Record(s) to Search

21. Obtain and Search the Record  Show Lillian  Pedigree to parent of Sarah to show descendants  Analyze nFS data with information from letter

22. Family Tree Descendants