Thursday Evening Ancestry Class

At our Ancestry class on Thursday night, we learned something great about the connection between our Ancestry and FamilySearch accounts. Sources can now be pushed back and forth between the two sites. Here is a brief tutorial on how to work with the sources on both websites.

1. Sign into Ancestry.com

2. Pick the person you want to work with

3. Click on the FamilySearch Button

 4. Click on Compare person on FamilySearch

 5. Scroll down to the sources, and click on the boxes of the sources you want to push across to either site.

6. On Ancestry you will go to your timeline and it will appear as one of the sources. When you click on that source, it will take you to the citation information. When you click on the weblink you will be taken to document on FamilySearch

7. On FamilySearch you will go to the person page, and scroll to the section called sources. You will notice that it shows up as a web source. You will click on the url and it will take you to the Ancestry website, and the document you were looking for.

With the ability to push sources back and forth between Ancestry and FamilySearch can help make it so we only do the work one time. As we collaborate with each other on the web we can further the work of Salvation faster and better than ever before. This is an exciting time to get involved in family history. We hope you take a look at this new function, and play around with it. If you have any questions about it, please come into the center, and we can help you.

Happy Searching!