FamilySearch Hidden Records: Full Text Search: 2024
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- HUGE! Familysearch has created handwriting recognition to search the full text of our ancestors records. This is a game-changer. I'm finding so many records my head is spinning!
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OUTSTANDING! I have been using it, and agree! Thank you for the added tips! Can't wait to see it grow! YOU ROCK!❤
Ah thanks!
Thank you so much. I watch your show every week and this tip has been one of the best. I just found the record for my African American ancestors who were freed in the deed of their master in Virginia, 1796. I am ecstatic!
Oh Yay! I knew this would help find enslaved ancestors. This is huge. Good job.
How wonderful!
That is amazing!!
OMG!!!! I found a bunch of good records!!!!this is amazing I will be busy for the next couple of months!!!
Excellent. I think this is going to be a game changer for a lot of people.
As an Aussie, I'm so jealous! This looks terrific and I look forward to the technology being broadened out to other records sets. Thank you for the excellent tutorial.
I'm sure it will be worldwide soon. Fingers crossed.
This is so AMAZING! I've found 4 deeds in the last 2 hours that I hadn't seen before even though I've looked. I'm excited about them rolling out more collections soon.
I’ve had some trouble finding relevant records due to relatively common names. I had meant to go back and check whether Boolean search methods worked but hadn’t had a chance yet. Thanks for showing the quotes!
wow wow wow. I have already found records, and haven't even finished watching the video!!! Thanks Family Search!
West Virginia was formed June 20, 1863. I am from WV and it can be a challenge but I love researching in WV. Can't wait to try this out.
Greetings from West Virginia, and thank you SO much for the great demonstration on how to use this fantastic new feature. This will be very, very helpful. BTW, Cabell County is pronounced “CAB-bel” (cab, as in taxi cab). 😊
Thanks for the clarification.
Thank you! I found a piece to my brickwall puzzle!
Wonderful!
This is great! Thank you!
I haven’t found anything yet for that 2nd great-grandmother’s brick wall, but, I did find what amounts to a pre-nup for her mother- and father-in-law, my third great-grands. I was quite pleased! My 3rd great-grandma came from some very prominent citizens of that area, so had, and was expected to inherit, a great deal of property. Her 2nd husband, the one I descend from, would never be able to lay hands on it. It was hers and hers alone, for the benefit of her and her children- 3 from her first marriage. She ultimately had two children with my 3rd great-grandfather. Their son together is my 2nd great-grandpa and husband to the owner of my biggest brick wall.
I have even more hope now to find the information I have been searching over 40 years for. A surname that has been a mystery to me in the obit of one of their daughters shows up as a witness in several of the documents that I have found so far.
Thank you again. I am so glad that I was allowed a few minutes to watch this video!
Outstanding! Thanks, Connie, for always being on top of things and sharing with us! Definite game changer!
It really is!
another American only feature (so far). Thanks for the heads up anyway. I'll pop back to family search in a year when it might be available to the UK. Love your content.
This is so amazing! Thanks for the update.
Connie - great video. Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize the group data tab gave additional information. I agree - this is a game changer. I already found records I needed and I had already been to the Elbert County, Georgia courthouse and records center and missed a number of these documents.
Glad it was helpful!
I am so excited to check this out!
Yahoo! I have located several exciting records. Thanks for your tips...
Wonderful!
Oh my goodness. I tested this out tonight for an ancestor I had been working on who was alive 1788-1877 in Indiana. Within about 5 minutes, I found a land indenture from 1822 that not only listed him but also his first wife’s first name (who I have been able to find no physical evidence about except one document with her last name). I’m beyond excited!!
Also, this document had never been indexed before and I haven’t seen it attached to anyone else’s trees with this common ancestor!
Wow! As I'm watching, I found a deed from my 3rd great-grandfather. Fantastic!
That is awesome!
Signed on and within 4 minutes found the will of my ggggrandfather. Astounding. I'd never seen this before, and had been looking for it for years. Thank you for putting us onto it.
Yay!
Thank you for this!! I have been stuck for a while on my tree, and this will help.
Wonderful!
Such an awesome video!!! I have difficulty with Family Search, thank again!!!
I just found the Application for Marriage License/Marriage License for my gr-grandfather's sister (1887 - Cambria Country, PA). Thank you SO MUCH!!
Wonderful!
Thank you for explaining this. I can’t wait to get started researching relatives. Kris
Holy Cow!!! This is so awesome and oh my gosh a giant rabbit hole!!!🤣😂🤣😂 for my ancestor that was my brick wall, So far I have found 6 different deeds and 5 of the 6 name his wife and the other one names his oldest son!! This is so awesome, Thank you for showing this to us!!
My pleasure... Like really... I'm having so much fun sharing and finding records. :)
I just had a major break through with my brick wall Thanks Connie!!!!
Yay!
I have started using this and discovered that in many counties the marriage records are in PROBATE records. WOOT WOOT. There they are
Fabulous information! Thanks a million!!!
You are so welcome!
OMG Connie, this is amazing, I have been looking through these newly searchable records all morning. Game changer!!!!! 🥳
I know, right?
Very useful and exciting, thanks
Oh my!! What a treasure trove of records! Thank you, Connie for sharing this! Not looking to get much sleep this weekend--so much to look at.
Sleep is overrated. :)
I agree; especially when it's either sleep or genealogy!! Thanks for all you do!!@@GenealogyTV
OMGNESS🙌🙌 im so excited it's FRIYAY...I get to go home n play💃💃👏👏
Thks Connie❤ have a great weekend!!
Have fun!
I informed my 4th cousin about the You Tube videos coming out of Roots Tech 2024. This video was in my que, but I hadn't watched it. She did and searched for our 2G grandparents (siblings). We previously had them in the 1850 and 1860 Federal Census of Laurens County SC. The head of the household was named. However, we were uncertain of her relationship to the four siblings. This search option produced a land record wherein the land grantor listed his wife by maiden name, plus their four children by their full names. One of the census reports gave a middle initial for my 2G grandmother. She named her 1st born son for her late father and brother (Jeremiah). Thus, we determined the names of our 3G grandparents and full names of their four children. What a boon!
Wow. Awesome.
Can't wait to dive into this new tool, thank you!
Very welcome!
Amazing 🎉
❤❤ you are amazing and I learn so much from you. Such an awesome instructor. 🎉
Thank you
I found a Will for someone in my tree, but not THE person I was looking for. I was looking for my 2 X Great Grandmother's father. But the will I found was for her maternal Great Grandfather. LOL! Close, but not exactly what I was looking for. But still a cool find. Just have to keep digging.
OMG! I have found so many more records that I didn't know were out there! Thank you, Connie!
I tried it... and immediately found a possible ancestor.. it at least proved he was in the area that my 3rd ggfather and his possible son lived in the 1840s. AI makes a lot of mistakes...but...still helpful
Thanks for the prompt to dig in again. I found some estate administration files from the early 1700s that I didn't have. CAUTION: I downloaded using the arrow in the transcription box because it will create a document to save locally (after it opens in your browser) with the image and the transcript and the citation. BUT I just discovered that the default is to save with a jpg extension when really it's a pdf. Be sure to change the extension or check the format for saving. I think it's a bug in their system. It says it will save as a PDF, but it doesn't rename to that. This is an experimental beta program, so one expects bugs.
If you do download and it saves as jpg, just rename it with .pdf so your computer knows what to do with the file. Otherwise it won't open because there is a mismatch.
Thanks for the tips Jan
Thank you so much. I finally found part of my brick wall by discovering the proper name of my husband's possible Great-grandfather through a DNA match. Now I know the name to search for.
Great job!
Really cool. Some records have births, marriages and deaths and names of family members.
Such a great step by step video- I have been trying this new feature as well but learned valuable tips watching you. Thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your support of the channel.
Great tips- thank you!
You are so welcome!
All i've gotta say say WOW!!!! I found so many deeds from just 1 couple. Information I didn't know existed without having to travel to the state they lived in.
Yay!
Holy Cow! Game Changer for Family Search! Thanks for your great videos!
I used this new function to find a string of deeds for an ancestor, the last of which references 6 of the earlier deeds, that may conclusively confirm that what has been claimed as 2 people with the same name living in the same place, at the same time, was in fact the same person with a first and second wife (an assertion that many have made without being able to show evidence), and that the birth records showing all of his children being born to this first wife (this is the primary source used to substantiate the claim of 2 people) are in error.
Fantastic
Thank you! Found two land records right after watching your video! They confirm she is his wife and I actually see signatures!
Well done!
Connie, it works. I just tried it out and up popped the land transfer upon the death of my G-G-grandfather to his children. From this it appears that a person by the name Emma I thought to be a fourth child appears to be the same person as the wife of his son, her name being Emeline.
Yay!
I recommend saving it as a Source on the Ancestry tree, with the URL included in the source citation instead of just adding a weblink. This method allows you to then associate the record with multiple events in the ancestor profile.
YES!
I can't wait to search for my hard to find relative Phraortes!
It's crazy!
I hope this experiment gets expanded to all of the images on their site. I am doing Portuguese research in Madeira and the Azores. This would help me a lot.
While you were talking about enslaved persons named in documents related to our ancestors, it dawned on me, that is would be nice to have in Ancestry (and other software) a "relationship" where enslaved persons could be connected. I have run across a couple of those myself, and wondered how I could capture them in my tree, for others to find in their searches? I could make a disconnected tree, but the connection with the landowner is key in those relationships. I know there is a big push right now to connect together those folks and if software gave us a tool, that might connected people to their ancestors. I transcribe what I can, but it doesn't seem searchable right now. Anyway, on with your great video....
YES! People are doing this now creating floating tree. I have several episodes on Floating Trees. You can connect someone in your tree and then disconnect them so they are floating... use tree tags to ID them. Also you can add them to the enslaver by using Edit, Edit Relationships then choose Other... and make notes. Alternatively, you could use the source column and use Add, Weblink to link to the document where ever it is.... or do all the above.
FamilySearch already has this capability - scroll to the very bottom of on of the person pages, and have the other person's ID handy. Be sure to have the roles correct before closing the profile
Benjamin Garrett is one of my ancestors, too.
This is my favorite and most helpful video that you have ever made. Thanks so much. Now I finally feel like a real genealogist, tying my family members together with land deeds.
Do you think Family Search has added all of their records here, or is it only what they’ve run through OCR? Do you know if they will constantly be adding to this?
It is only US Land and Probate Records and Mexico Notary Records are currently the only available collections to browse.
OMG. First try and I got a hit!
Oh Yay!!!!!
Love watching you and I have learned so much. FYI. Cabell County is pronounced Cab-ell( as in a taxi). I live in next county. Love you anyway.
Thanks for the info!
Connie, you do one heck of a job explaining the awesomeness of this new feature. And I say that as someone who can't really use it now; or not likely can to any great extent (being as I am in Canada). As such, do you know or has anyone at FamilySearch indicated when they might expand this beyond the current "borders/limitations"?
I don’t know offhand
Good news.
OMG yes. Three brickwalls down. I shall not sleep tonight. (Is there an NC chapter of GA (Genealogists Anonymous)? I need help.
LOL... I know the feeling.
This has been phenomenal! Imagine when the Irish Catholic Church records get digitized!
You can get to the Family Search Labs from the home page. Log in and scroll down…it’s on the right. 🥰
Yes... I found it after uploading the video. Thanks.
Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for all you do! :)
OMG first hit is a never before seen will!
YAY! This is going to be a fun tool.
I new to your channel
Welcome
One thing I wish someone would talk about is how the Depression affected the 1930 & 40 census. Also the WPA cemetery project. I think it would be very informative. Thank you for your videos
Thanks for the ideas.
Thank you. I use Family Search and have only found a couple of the WPA cemetery records. I do most of my research in NC & VA
Question... the ancestor I found was in a deed record..not his deed..but his property was referred to. I wonder if that means he was still the owner of the property at the time...or could he have died or moved but the document still referred to property he owned at one point?
If the property owner is no longer there, sometimes I've seen something like "the old Henley line" or "formerly" used. I would research that county deeds for your ancestors deed. You likely can find when it was sold by your ancestor or other references to that property. Often you can find them at the county registrar of deeds office online (depending on the location) too.
It is on the web site. Over on the right hand side!
Yes... I realize that now, of course after recording the video.
Hi. I have a question. A couple of years ago, you did a piece on a new device that we could buy that was used to scan documents, etc. It would then send it to your system where you could save it and/or load it into your genealogy records. I saved that site. But it was on a system that crashed and I lost every thing that I had saved there. I can t find your video on this equipment. I still think that it would be a very useful tool. Can you tell me what that equipment was called? And, if you know where I can find it, that would be a big help, too.
Thank you.
Karen Crawford
I use two different things but I save everything to my computer, not someone else's system unless it is like Ancestry. SnapScan is the big scanner... Here is my affiliate link amzn.to/43ksmdv and I use TurboScan for scanning from my cell phone.
FamilySearch labs is unstable on Microsoft Edge. It' flickers and jumps around, but works great on Chrome.
I find it curious that they would start the Lab Experiment with records that can be found using Grantor and Grantee indexes. The most underutilized records are Court Minutes and Court Records that record deeds, bastardy bonds, prenup agreements (yes they existed in pre 1800 records), guardianship assignments, etc. I recently revisited a family I hadn't looked at in over a decade. I spent many hours over 3 weeks and found an obscure Court record that debunked a decades long parental assumption by hundreds of descendants. How many more records such as that will be found when the Lab Experiment includes those records?
When I did my experiment just now, I ran across some bastardy records-the first time I've seen those come up. That was in North Carolina in my case.
I think they are working as fast as they can adding different record types. Land and deeds are some of the more popular and more accurate records (being legal docs), so I think that's where they started.
@IowaKim You're lucky. Bastardy bonds are typically only found in NC and VA... they originated in England. They were designed to force the fathers to take responsibility for their illegitimate children so the county didn't have to pay for their care.
@@GenealogyTV I'm thinking they chose land records because they have the ability to cross reference the AI with the indexes to determine accuracy. Regardless, I;m waiting on pins and needles for those court records!!! I had a situation a few years ago where a brick wall was broken by reading the full 97 pages of a NC family lawsuit in the 1810s that on page 90 connected the wife to her husband verifying the relationship, and which no one else seemed to have had the patience to read.
@@sharontabor7718 I was thinking the same thing. Data checks are so important when rolling out a new product.
One very jealous Brit at this end😔
I feel your pain. My mom's side is all American, my father's is all Great Britain. My tree is so lopsided and I spend 2x more effort getting the British records (plus the cost to order records).
Hang in there... once they get the bugs worked out... I'm sure it will be heading your way.
I am unfortunately still hitting a brick wall.
Are you related to Elizabeth Ann Ferguson. My family is from Virginia before it was a state. We founded Virginia.
I have an Elizabeth Ferguson 1785-1862 from Tazewell, VA. Same?
@@GenealogyTV I'm looking I have a lot of dates places and years in my head. She was born in Ireland in 1734. According to Ancestry my great grandfather was in Colorado in 1765 but Colorado wasn't a state in 1765 weird. They were in Massachusetts and she married Daniel Archibald Elliott from South Carolina . He was shot by the red coats when opened the front door unless it was Elizabeth's father James to many great grandfather's to keep straight from the Revolution.
West Virginia was created as a result of geographic and demographic differences with the eastern portion of the state and its (West Virginia's) much heavier white population. In 1863 Lincoln approved the creation of the state with the proviso that it would emancipate its black residents held in slavery. It's a mess as far as records go as birth places changed over the years to reflect the division of the state. But before 1863 you will find it was all Virginia. After, it depends on the person doing the record keeping. Census takers were guided by the reporting family member who might or might not change the birth place to reflect the new state's creation.
Interesting
How can he be in West Virginia in 1824? Didn’t West Virginia become a state only in the 1860s?
Yes... but some of the records from that territory were moved to WV. Always look in both places. I'm sure the AI has that out figured too.
I'm a bit surprised that you don't have birth and death places on your tree. Is there a reason? This is one of my pet peeves in DNA matches' trees.
I do. Perhaps they just were not showing.
Enter slave* with owner's name to find slaves. Be sure to narrow year and place. Thousands
There must be too many using this. I can’t get in to the site.
It is in beta. Try again.
That's pronounced Cabbel.
Thanks.