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When you sign up for a free membership, FamilySearch asks you to fill out a form with the basics: full name, gender and birth details; a username for the site and a publicly viewable contact name; and a password, along with an email address or phone number (used only to recover login details). There is also the option to let FamilySearch know that you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; whether or not you are doesn\u2019t change the fact that you can create an account. After the form is submitted, you\u2019re just a confirmation email and an activation process away from complete registration.<\/p>\n
From there, FamilySearch is filled with tips and suggestions to start you off on your hunt for family records. Of course, you can also just dive right into searching through their archive. When you key in an ancestor\u2019s name, the site makes it easy to narrow search results by location as well as date; and further by added facts like birth and marriage dates, or the name of a spouse or parent. It\u2019s worth noting that because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints focuses on genealogy for the purpose of performing temple rites for their kindred dead, FamilySearch is more efficient when searching for facts about deceased family members in\u00a0much older sources. When searching for living relatives, it\u2019s difficult to get one or a few results, if at all–even if it\u2019s more likely for them to have easily accessible information elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>