RESEARCH SURVEY

 The "Research Survey" sheet is an organizer to help you keep track of where you have done research to avoid doing the same thing over and over.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY SHEET

 

DESCENDANCY RESEARCH

 Descendancy research is "Cousin Research" and consists of the following:

Start with yourself.  Follow your family line back in time to an ancestor born in the1700s for example.  Then start with a sibling of this ancestor and come forward in time to the 1850s or later to find new names to add to your tree.

You will find that people born after 1850 are going to have a lot more records available and you can much more easily find new names to add to your tree.  This is a rewarding process that is a lot easier to learn than to do research on people a long way back with few records that is better suited to the professional genealogists.

Click this link for a 1 page instruction sheet.

    DESCENDANCY RESEARCH

How to join an Indexing Group

 An INDEXING GROUP is a group of people who are participating in indexing efforts as a group:

1.  It is a fun way to motivate each other to be involved in indexing.

2.  Provides a means to track the number of records indexed or reviewed by the group.

3.  Provides for friendly competition between other groups

HOW TO JOIN ANOTHER GROUP

These instructions assume you already have a Familysearch account.  As a member of the Union Ward, you are automatically added to the Union Ward and Kennewick Stake Groups which at the time of writing this post has 66 members doing indexing in the Union Ward and 678 people doing indexing in the Stake.

STEP 1: Sign into Indexing and find the "Find Groups" button on the opening page.  Members of the Union Ward will see the following:

STEP 2:    When you click on the "Find Groups" button you have two choices.  Choose "Find Groups"

STEP 3: Enter the name of the Group you want to join in the search box.

STEP 4: Click the tab "JOIN" when you find the group you want to join.

STEP 5:  Index!!!  Every record you index or review will be created to all the groups you are a member of.