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Discover how to use FamilySearch.org! Learn how to tackle the largest free genealogy website with this in-depth user guide, newly updated to reflect the site's latest developments. The Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org, second edition, shows you how to find your family in the site's databases of more than 3.5 billion names and millions of digitized historical records spanning the globe. Learn how to maximize all of FamilySearch.org's research tools--including hard to find features--to extend your family tree in the United States and the old country. This comprehensive guide contains valuable FamilySearch.org tips, including: Step-by-step strategies for crafting search queries that find ancestors fastPractical pointers for locating your ancestors in record collections that aren't keyword searchableDetailed overviews of FamilySearch.



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Dana McCullough

Dana McCullough is a former assistant editor at Family Tree Magazine. She is a writer and editor who writes and edits content on genealogy and higher education topics. She has written or edited content for twenty magazines and several books. Her writing has been published in Family Tree Magazine, The Artist's Magazine, Family Circle, Brain Child, Better Homes and Gardens' Simply Creative Weddings, My College Guide, The Iowan, Wisconsin Woman, and Scrapbooks, etc., among other national and regional consumer magazines. Dana has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Iowa State University.



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