FamilySearch has a New Search Records page and today, we're
going to walk through the things you need to know to find
your family. Welcome to Family History Fanatics. Be sure to
check the link in the description to the free
resource guides that we have to help you climb your family tree
but today, you want to know how to find your ancestors in the
New Records Search page. Now, FamilySearch has slowly been
improving a number of its resource pages to help you find
your family tree, the Genealogy page, the book page, the
Historical Images page, and now they've rolled out the Search
Records page and there are number of things to help you
dive into the discoveries. Now, this video will only focus on
the top search form. Be sure to check out a future video that
will talk about the other two search boxes. You'll want to be
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be notified when that video goes live. So, let's go ahead
and do a search of records. Now, if you think why is your
so large? That's because I zoomed in. So, it might look
like this to make it easier for you guys to view at home. I've
zoomed in to 175 view. So, I'm going to start with a simple
search and there's a couple of things that I'm going to
recommend. So, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
type in an ancestor's name. So, I'm going to search for my
Civil War Ancestor's William Townsend. Now, his name is
William J Townsend but right now, I just kind of want hints
that have William, an abbreviation of a William, or a
W in it. I'm not a fan of just putting any place in any year.
I want to be more specific. So, I'm going to do more options
and notice how the view changes. So, I have William and
I have Townsend and I'm going to put a birth. Now, I don't
have to be super specific. Ohio, United States is good
enough and I'm going to put in range from 1840 to 1845, even
though I know that he was born in 1842. It's always best to do
a range. I'm going to leave everything else as it is but
let me show you there's something that you may or may
not want to do. Let's say you have a John Smith and there's a
million and a half to John Smith plus there's John Smiths
and some others. Then you can click on show exact. Now if
that's all you do it's not work. You're going to hit
search results and you're going to have the same search
results even if you didn't put this on. What you have to now
do is then put exact. I only, in this case, want William
Townsend who were born in Ohio. I don't want them if they were
born in Pennsylvania. I don't want them if they were born in
England. I only want them if they were born in Ohio. So,
that is how you get the exact search. So, it will be exact
for the place and this birth reign. I often start without
the exact search so let's reset William Townsend Birthplace
Ohio somewhere between 1840 and 1845 and I click search so now
there's the new view let's go ahead and zoom out to the 100%
view and that it looks like this it'll have your person's
name the events the relationship sub icon and then
it's possible you don't have that option screen but it is
also possible that it is open there as well. If you want to
see the more options, let's remind remind you what I did.
I'll zoom in here. I clicked on not the search button but the
more options and that brought out that side panel. I'm
going to zoom in just a little bit further to make it easier
to read but notice some of those columns have been hidden
by this bar in order for us to read. So, let's review some of
the options that we can go through now. First, we can sort
by collection. Let's say I just want to find him in census
records to start with. So I can click on collection and it'll
will bring out that side panel and notice I have birth
marriage and death records. I could show all 69 options.
There are 69 options because remember I didn't filter to
birth to just be from Ohio. But I could pick any of them here
but remember that's not what I really wanted to look for. I
wanted to look for Census Records. So, it's not working.
I have to click this back arrow. If you click that X,
it's going to take you out. I do that all the time. Just
takes a little bit of time getting used to. Click on birth
marriage death. Go back and now, I can see show all census
records. He was born in 1842. So I don't need this census
record 1840 because you shouldn't be in it but I can
click 1860 1880 1800. He died in eighteen so that's not
going to be helpful. I'm going to pick up these two and
you get the idea. Pick up the ones that fit his timeline or
her timeline and click apply filter and now I only have one,
two, 3, 4, just a handful of records. There's two pages of
hints at 20 per page so up to about 40 results for that. I
don't really see the number. Oh, there it is. There's the
number of how many results it was. It doesn't really stand
out because it kind of blends in with this filter results
thing. So, what if I want to filter to just Franklin County?
I just want people from Franklin County, Ohio in this
collection. So, another option is to click on residence and I
can click United States of America and I want to go to
Ohio and then I want Franklin and then I click apply and now,
I only have anyone who's William Townsend born between
1840 and 1845 who in this collection because I'm filtered
by those collection. They have to be in Franklin County, Ohio
and noticed that there, well, that's Cincinnati. That didn't
really work, did it? Well, that's interesting that it has
the Hamilton in there. I didn't, I don't want Hamilton.
So, there might be some more tweaks to go through in order
to understand your results. So, I'm going to go ahead and take
the residence off and I'm going to take the census
collections off. So, now I have those 4, 610 results once
again. There are couple of other things that we can do.
Actually, I'm going to change my person So the next person
I'm going to look at is Harrison Hayes who was born in
Kentucky in 1832. So again I do the birth range. It's 1830 to
1835. I'm going to close this out and one of the filters I'm
going to put on Mister Hayes is race. The reason why I want to
do that and why this is really neat is because Mister Hayes
served in the color troops in the Civil War. So I'm going to
go ahead and click that for and press apply. And now I am
really loving these results because I can see this is his
entry in the Missouri Colored Troops enlistment and this is
the location in Cheritan and it also said John Hayes well for
other. What's really great if you're looking for African
American Ancestors this collection if you view into the
actual records there's an image and it doesn't have a key above
it that means I can actually look at this image there Henry
H Harrison. Don't want ham. I want haze. There's Napoleon
hay. That's neat. Robert Hayes. Travis Hayes. And Harrison
Hayes down here way at the bottom. Harrison Hayes. He's
thirty-two. He's black. He's from Kentucky in Madison.
There's May 29. Let's scroll back to the top to find out
what that meant. He enlisted May 29 and we had his
occupation and where. So, there's lots of judos. So, my
guess he was a farmer. May 29th farmer in Benton is that place.
So, he wasn't in Benton. He was in Brunswick. So, that's where
he was from. The other column headings enlisted by whom
claimed to have been the slave of oh this is fantastic. Let's
go find out what that name was, Harrison Hayes. He claims to
have been a slave of John Hayes. So, I don't often do a
lot of African-American research here on the Family
History Fanatics Channel but if I stumble across something that
would be helpful, then I try to bring it to your attention. If
you're looking for what the slave owner's name, the slave
owner's name might have been for any of your ancestors who
served in the colored troops then this could be something
that'll be valuable to you. If that if that serves your needs,
let me know in the comments. I'd be happy to know that this
was a valuable tool for you guys. Now, with mister
Harrison, it was nice to go from this record to the 1870
census and notice that the locations are the same. There's
also a number of people in his household, that's great. There
were quite a few hazes listed on this record so I can just go
back and see if there are any more entries that would be
helpful for searching for other relatives of Harrison but it's
really nice that I was able to filter to this record
collection this 1870s census by race in order to filter down to
this entry. I would have to do a little bit more research to
decide if this 1880 census record was for him as well.
Right now, I don't know. One of the things you're going to see
here on some record collections if we go back William, you're
going to see these little icons over here on the right. If you
see those icons, then, this record is attached to a
specific person on the family tree and then you can go and
navigate to that person and learn more about them and they
have two sources. They're from England and then here are the
potential parents. So, that's kind of handy. Look for those
and then, if you don't see any image icons and you just see
this, that just means it's just the index page that looks like
this. There isn't a image available. So, let's go to the
more options. Another thing you can do is you can add a
birthplace. So, I'm going to say Frank Ohio over here as
well. Scroll down to click search and now I have a
birthplace Ohio and back to those 4, 610 results and I'm
able to see, okay, this one has an image in addition to that
index. There are some other icons. There might be a little
key above that. That means that you have to look at it in a
Family History Affiliate Library or the actual Family
History Center. Talk about some other options that are over
here that you may use. Life events, you can add a marriage
or residence that event. Let's say you don't know when your
ancestor was married. You can put that in instead. Marriage
year was 1860 to 1865 so I can go ahead and click on that and
I'm just going to be looking for marriage events. Look at
that. Now, there are some of these other dates because some
of the records are different. Right now, just a lot of
marriage entries because I was looking for marriage facts. You
can add multiple filters if you have too many results. That's
fine or you can just do one at a time to see what kind of
results come up. Another thing you can do is you can add
spouses and so let's say that you want to find all the
children of William Townsend and Mary Claybaugh. Let me show
you how to do that. So, instead of having the marriage event,
I'm going to add the spouse. So, I'm going to start first
with Mary Claybaugh and not going to make it exact because
I know this name is butchered a million times this side of
Sunday so let's go ahead and click search right here Mary
Claybaugh that one's right this one is right this one is right
so I'm going to actually filter to just Ohio to birth or maybe
there's a marriage event or there's a death event or
there's all kinds of other events maybe at Probate Land
Records so on and so forth and I'm going to filter this way so
United Statesboro Ohio Hello. Remember I just kept it kind of
broad now I'm going to look at Franklin County there's 10 hit
apply and now for the residents of of Franklin County Ohio I
have a number of people how about I try something different
as a way to filter those results so I have the spouse is
William and Mary Clayboss so I'm going to do more options of
what I'm going to filter now by is type so I'm going to do
birth marriage death and about crisp being searched by those
and this is one of the ways that you can potentially look
for the information about the children of your ancestors and
you can add other filters in there to make it more distinct
because there still are quite a lot of records. So, another
thing you can do that is kind of handy is that you can set
some preferences. First, you can have this view, the one you
see right here but we can you a data sheet view and this will
put every fact in its own column. So, I have name, birth
date, birthplace, marriage date, marriage place, marriage,
residence date, you get the idea, death date, parents,
spouse, children, so on and so forth. Let's say you don't want
all of those options. So, come back here to preferences and we
can customize that data sheet. Let's say you really don't want
the the other people and you don't want the death residents
information so we're going to customize the table and now
you're just going to see birth marriage residence notice the
death date and place is gone and we just have parents spouse
children and siblings if we scroll out we'll see better all
the what if that look like so for now we don't have a lot of
content but as we go through we're going to start seeing
some of these columns fill up with details now the final I
want to share with you is that you can actually export some of
your results. We're going to do everyone named Townsend and not
any place. We're going to remove any place. They have to
have been in Franklin between 1870 and 1890. This is way of
doing a surname search on FamilySearch. There's still too
many. I'm going to do one more time in making sure I'm only in
Franklin Ohio. I have a hundred thirty-seven results. Now,
another way to have done that is to click on exact. I can use
the bubbles or I can use exact hit search, and again, I have
137 results. So that's more manageable for a certain search
project. So, what I can do now is I can download those search
results into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or I can download
it as a TSV which is a tab separated file. I'm not really
sure what the piece for but I know it's tab separated versus
a comma separated and with the types of files, I can import
them into any spreadsheet program that I have. Um number
of results, they're going to limit you. So, I have 137, but
I can only do 100 at a time. So, that is something to keep
in mind. I'm not entirely sure how to grab the next thirty7.
So we'll have to handle that in a future video or if somebody
knows how to get the next 37, just drop a in the comment
section. I hope this video helps you to familiarize
yourself with the new FamilySearch Records Search
page. I know it has a little bit of a learning curve but we
can do it and if you have further questions, be sure to
drop those in the comment section below. For more tips
and tricks on how to use FamilySearch, be sure to check
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