New LDS Accounts to Ancestry, MyHeritage & FindMyPast - - How Can I Best Use these??
This class will show how to sync Ancestry.com
and FamilySearch Family Tree with the new
options in the LDS Ancestry account. Also an
introduction to MyHeritage and FindMyPast and
ideas of how to use all these sites in tandem to
build AND source your family tree.
If you haven’t received the letter from the church
to get your own account or have lost the original
email; you can now access the webpage at
http://tinyurl.com/access3sites Scroll down to
the listings for each website, making sure to
click on each individual link to set up a free LDS
account with each of the databases. NOTE: you
may choose to start a new account OR link the
new LDS account with an already existing
account.
Create GEDCOM to have your tree on each of
the sites to access the technology to help you
grow and source your tree. As a general set
up, if you have used a genealogy program ie.
PAF, RootsMagic, Legacy data file: create a
GEDCOM file to upload to each of these sites.
 Open your genealogy program, click on
File/Export, click Everyone.
 NOTE: my suggestion is to leave out the
LDS information, so as your tree is viewed
on these public shared sites, that would not
be an issue. LDS info is only really needed
on FT. Click OK or Save, name the file and
save it on your desktop.
 Each site has the option under “(My)Family
Trees” to upload a GEDCOM. This is how to
populate your tree on each of the new sites.
Having your genealogy file on each site will
best allow the database to search and find
other trees that match and historical
documents for sourcing.
If no GEDCOM: Ancestry allows you to Import a
tree from Family Search of 4 generation. As
MyHeritage and FindMyPast developes their
links with FT that option should become
available in the near future.
Ancestry.com
As of this time, Ancestry is the first to link and
sync with FS Family Tree. Since Ancestry and
FamilySearch have the largest available record
collections, a large part of the class will be on
how to best use these two sites together.
The new addition in the LDS Ancestry account is
found on the person’s Profile Page. Just under
person’s name/vital info and to the right of the
portrait
Option to Connect person to FamilySearch and
once connected this window becomes available.
We will review these options in class.
A new person in Ancestry can be directly added
to Family Tree. And visa verses.
Some great training for Ancestry
Help at Ancestry
http://help.ancestry.com/app/home
Get the most from Ancestry by Crista Cowan
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid22261
30202001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAsMO7iuE~,0a6boL_a
MzSWZIl-kKDeicdLK0u0bfLF&bctid=3168869866001
Getting the Most out of Ancestry AND Other
Sites:
http://mpfhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A5Ancestry-and-other-sites.pdf
Ancestry Channel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/AncestryCom
Ancestry.com Desktop Education Series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2F65E9
7B57EF8279
Ideas:
 Use Ancestry.com family trees to compare
with your own tree to see if someone is
working on the same family/person. The
information and new people they have can
be moved into your tree and then to FT.
First SOURCE with historical documents to
make sure the information is correct!!
 Connect your first 2-4 generations of families
to get use to the process, THEN connect
families/people as you work on that part of
your tree.
MyHeritage.com
Includes some very unique technology for
helping the genealogist to build and source their
family tree: need to have a tree up on the site!
Smart Matching-is a specialized genealogy
technology developed to match people in your
family tree with people in other trees that
members all over the world have created on
MH. It compares millions of names, facts and
connections intelligently and finds potential
matches for the people in your family tree.
These potential matches are presented to you
with a percentage score, indicating how closely
they match. You can then confirm or reject them
as being the same person.
Record Matching- automatically compares the
individuals in your family tree to billions of
historical records in MyHeritage’s SuperSearch
and notifies you if any matches are found.
The records matched with individuals in your
tree are all records within the public domain.
SuperSearch SuperSearch includes more than four billion
genealogy records such as birth, marriage,
death, burial, census, military, immigration,
yearbooks and other types of records, plus
scans of the original documents.
 SuperSearch provides worldwide coverage
with content relevant to all countries.
AppsMobile App-for Apple and Android to carry your
tree with you
Family Game-like the old concentration game
Look-Alike Meter- to see if a child looks more
like his mother or father.
At this time MyHeritage isn’t linking with Family
Tree so all updates on this site will have to be
manually updated to Family Tree and then to
Ancestry. The linking should be available in the
near future.
Ideas:
 While working on an individual/family-check
the search results from MyHeritage MH and
see the historical documents they suggest to
add to the sources for your ancestors
 If electing to receive emails-compare what
you receive from MH with Ancestry and FT.
 MH has “group” Record Matches (underFamily Tree-Record Matches) in areas of
Find A Grave, Newspaper Archives, SSDI,
Census grouped by years, etc. Newspapers,
Find A Grave and SSDI are great ways to
add specific sourcing to your ancestors.
Training:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MyHeritageLtd
And http://www.myheritage.com/help/en/videotutorials/
FindMyPast.com
Has records from US, UK, Australia & New
Zealand, Ireland and more. Search A-Z
http://search.findmypast.com/historicalrecords?region=united%20states&page=1
Additional Information for Members
There are no time limits when using findmypast.
Due to specific agreements with records
custodians, some records collections may not be
available to access regardless of whether you
have a free or paid account. Other than that, all
features of the site will be unrestricted.
When full integration between FamilySearch and
findmypast is complete, you will be able to
transfer the sources in your FMP tree to
FamilySearch Family Tree. This work will not be
complete until late 2014.
NOTE: Sometimes clicking in and out of records
too quickly will bring up a window to pay since
these records are available by credits. Try again
a little later.
Ideas:
 Use again to compliment and source your
tree
 At this time you will have to manually update
your tree until syncing with FT is available.
Training:
http://www.findmypast.com/content/gettingstarted
Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/findmypast