Who Do You Think You Are?

Use Family Search’s free image archive

Here’s a game-changer. Familysearch.org has published billions of digital images from archives all over the world, but many have yet to be transcribed, so you can’t search for ancestors by name. Now FamilySearch has opened access to these records with a brand-new tool that allows you to search them by place, date and record type.

From here you can use FamilySearch’s digital image viewer to examine each image manually for possible references to

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