Life is busy and many of us want to climb our family tree on the go. In
today's video we're going to talk about how you can use to FamilySearch mobile
app to research your family tree when you're not at a computer to do it.
Howdy, I'm Devon Noel Lee with Family History Fanatics and FamilySearch has a
mobile app that is free to use and the tree and records are also free to use
and research so let me tell you just some of the ways that I like to research
when I'm on the go so what I like to do is to start off by clicking on the left
side button because typically when I'm on the go I'm just looking for ways to
kill time while waiting for my kids or if I'm stuck in a situation well you get
the idea. So one of the things I like to do is look for "Ancestors With Tasks" and
what I do in order to get that is click the hamburger icons on the left
now if you're using a Mac device the icons will be a little bit different and
the placement will be different then I like to do is hit "Ancestors With Tasks"
now depending on the Wi-Fi connection you have it can take a long long time to
download so keep that in mind but if it downloads quickly one of the things you
can do is get in here and start looking for some of the names that you recognize
or people you're willing to go ahead and explore so I'm gonna look at Delbert
Arthur Hankinson now Delbert is the biological father of my grandmother he
did not marry my grandmother's biological mother and the biological
mother passed away and I don't even know if Delbert knew about my grandmother
Louise but there's a hint for him so where do I get to the hints cuz it's not
right there if I click on sources it won't be there either well before I
click on what's the hints let's go ahead and make sure we get to know a little
bit about Delbert before we try to figure out if the hint applies to him or
not the first thing we need to know is that he was born in 1887 and it shows us
where it tells us where he died and there's
only two additional pieces of information that has been added to his
extra facts about him yet so 1920 he was in Newark Ohio and then in the 1917 he
was also in Newark Ohio because that was where he was in the military draft so we
still need to make sure that I look for the 1940 census the 1930 census the 1890
census in this part of the United States it's not in existence there are some
fragments so look for a link in the description below to learn more about
these surviving almost 7,000 names that you might be overlooking and if you
think the 1890 census looks completely destroyed but back to the case so now I
know a little bit about him I want to go and check out his spouse's so Agnes
Anderson was not a spouse she was the mother of his illegitimate
child so I'm not gonna find any records for her but there's a Lillian Gordon and
an Estella D okay y'all tell me in the comments below what you think how you
think to spell that pronounce H-O-U-K-E so these are his spouses if I click on
since there's multiple spouses here if I click on the little drop-down arrows I
can see when they were married and the children they have so there's a Gordon
and then it with Esetla it doesn't look like they had any
children because when I click on her it goes back to the spouse page so
no children there so we just had one child with the exception of Louise but
Louise was adopted away and so there won't really be any records to help us
find Delbert using her so we're gonna go look at the parents Joseph Joshua
Woodruff Hankinson Adeline Kramer and then his siblings okay so now that you
have a rough overview how do you go look at the hints you click you got to be
careful because if you click on this circle yeah I gotta be careful where you
but if you click on this circle it's gonna ask you to change the picture I
don't want to change the picture I want to click on that little blue icon right
up there and when I do oh my goodness that's a lot of hints but remember
you're on the go so I typically like to get the ones that are easy to look at
first so I'm gonna go to Find A Grave and hit continue now this is the part
that's a whole heck of a lot easier on a mobile device than it is on the FamilySearch
browser and there's one other thing that I want you to make sure you
do so stick around because if you don't do this part people on FamilySearch are
gonna be really mad at you we don't want that okay so we're looking at
Find A Grave index so we're at the top on the left under Find A Grave index or
whatever source you find there will be an option to actually try to look at the
original record good genealogist try to always go to the original source so
we'll click on that and then it will ask me to open the webpage and this will
take me to my browser and there is the stone for Delbert Arthur Hankinson in
Licking County Ohio ok so that looks good so I'm gonna go back to FamilySearch
and then begin transferring information over now this is what's exciting on the
mobile app so on the left the birth date was listed as 1889 on the right I had a
date and a place if I want to change information I can click the edit icon
and it takes me straight to where I can edit the date and then explain why am i
changing it any time you make a change on FamilySearch being the mobile device
or the browser you need to tell people why you're making a change so I'm not
making a change so I'll just go back out of that
and there's a death date the burial information I do want to move over so
I'm gonna click add and it pops right over and there's nothing else to do
haha that's false the thing that you need to do is reason to attach the
document hold on a second while I type a good reason statement page for Delbert
Arthur Hankinson period the stone provides his birth date and death date
commas though there are some potential error this information supports
information found on his death record so this is the start of a good reason
statement I'd like to tell what information was on the record that I
found the other thing I like to say is how do I know that this is accurate well
in this case it supports research that I already found even though there's a
little bit of discrepancy now I can go further and explain it but remember I'm
likely on the go so I can go and improve my reason statement when I get home
while I'm on my device I can hit "Done"yes attached to do tree and now I've made a
record attachment so the next one I'm going to look at is hopefully to find a
record where it lists Delbert and some additional relatives because it's kind
of cool what you can do here on the mobile app so in the 1910 census I found
Delbert with some other household members so I'm gonna go ahead and click
compare because Joshua remember I looked at that information at the beginning
Joshua was his dad and and the other the women Amanda in here as well so again
always go and look at the original record look for any variances and look
for any crazy spellings and look for biographical details that helps you know
about the family you you're on my device I just spread it
apart and I'm able to zoom in and find the family so there we have Joshua and
Addie oops, maybe I got a mistake we'll have
to find out Delbert and Katie so we're gonna go oh and look this is one of the
reasons why you would go look at original records next door is a Samuel
Hankinson and Samuel is 69 years old and Joshua is 54 if I didn't know about
Samuel I'm gonna have to go check out Samuel and see how they might be related
so always go to original records so now I'm gonna start moving information from
the record on the left to the tree on the right and I can go ahead and put
that arrow yep 1910 bringing over that source
absolutely "Reason to Attach" let me go ahead and do that right now so I have
just added a reason statement I'm going to go ahead say yes attached but notice
there's some more work that I can do I can attach that one record to the other
relatives so if the record has not have been attached before you're gonna see
where you're not able to move this door over so it looks like Delbert got left
off from somebody doing research don't do that
add everybody when you're researching so Joshua is done and Addie's information
is done Adaline ah I forgot her names Adeline not Amanda and then we have the
sister and she's done as well but what's really great here on the app is that if
you come across a record that has multiple names and you do not have those
individuals in the tree already or facts about them in a tree then in this source
link you can go ahead and process that in formation
now there are many other things that I can tell you about
researching on the go but with the mobile app I like to just exhaust the
hints when I'm around towns and away from the house go ahead and try this and
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