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Neue Vortragsreihe : „SHFam Online-Forum Familienforschung“

https://www.compgen.de/2026/05/neue-vortragsreihe-shfam-online-forum-familienforschung/

Neue Vortragsreihe : „SHFam Online-Forum Familienforschung“

https://www.compgen.de/2026/05/neue-vortragsreihe-shfam-online-forum-familienforschung/

New York State Library: Scanning with FamilySearch. “The NYS Library is working with Family Search International, a global nonprofit genealogy organization, to expand access to some of the New York’s most important ancestry records and historical collections. Since January 2026, Mark and Lynne Hamp, a retired couple from Utah, have been hard at work […]

No miracle it took me forever to find the wedding of Emil Ruch and Carolina #Pfefferle:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3C-HV11

#FamilySearch #Genealogy

No miracle it took me forever to find the wedding of Emil Ruch and Carolina #Pfefferle:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3C-HV11

#FamilySearch #Genealogy

No miracle it took me forever to find the wedding of Emil Ruch and Carolina #Pfefferle:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3C-HV11

#FamilySearch #Genealogy

No miracle it took me forever to find the wedding of Emil Ruch and Carolina #Pfefferle:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3C-HV11

#FamilySearch #Genealogy

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Direktlinks zu den 2024 digitalisierten Zivilstandsbüchern von 1895 bis 1906 im rumänischen Staatsarchiv sowie weiteren Links, z.B. zu den Kirchenbüchern bei #FamilySearch (via Günter Junkers)

https://matrikula.blog.hu/2024/05/02/erdelyi_anyakonyvek

#Donauschwaben #Ungarn #Rumänien #Ahnenforschung

@bethroots @AncestryRoads

I would be interested to know if they have one for Savoy / Savoie - my "French" GGF had an older half-brother that was born before it was officially folded into France.

A kind person on the old French chat at #FamilySearch offered to look up records for non-French persons. I asked for both half-brothers because the US records weren't consistent for their mother's maiden name. And within a 5-year span they had different types of birth records, which my #genealogy angel explained to me.

Did you know that you can access any ONLINE #RootsTech2026 session for free? Their on demand library is open.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/library?cid=SO-00058708

#RootsTech #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FamilySearch

Genealogy’s Star: What’s New from FamilySearch at RootsTech 2026. “Here is a summary from this recently uploaded video with announcements about changes coming to the familysearch.org website in 2026. You may wish to check back to the RootsTech 2026 website for any additional announcements that were not contained in this video.”

Internationaler Tag der Familienforschung: Genealogie-Treffen von FamilySearch in Ramstein

https://www.compgen.de/2026/02/internationaler-tag-der-familienforschung-genealogie-treffen-von-familysearch/

@geneapleau I too have had some great success with the full text search. Particularly with #wills, finding those executors and beneficiaries you might never have otherwise located. #familysearch #fulltextsearch #genealogy @genealogy

@geneapleau I too have had some great success with the full text search. Particularly with #wills, finding those executors and beneficiaries you might never have otherwise located. #familysearch #fulltextsearch #genealogy @genealogy

@geneapleau I too have had some great success with the full text search. Particularly with #wills, finding those executors and beneficiaries you might never have otherwise located. #familysearch #fulltextsearch #genealogy @genealogy

@geneapleau I too have had some great success with the full text search. Particularly with #wills, finding those executors and beneficiaries you might never have otherwise located. #familysearch #fulltextsearch #genealogy @genealogy

@geneapleau I too have had some great success with the full text search. Particularly with #wills, finding those executors and beneficiaries you might never have otherwise located. #familysearch #fulltextsearch #genealogy @genealogy

Sitting in a hospital room waiting for my spouse to come back from scans and tests, distracting myself by attaching records to profiles in the Family Search Family Tree, and filling out dates and places in their preferred format ...

Pretty sure that location is NOT Connecticult.

Or IS the devil in the details?

#Genealogy #FamilyTree #FamilySearch
#Geneadon

#OFB #Lampertheim aktualisiert: https://ofb.genealogy.net/lampertheim/

Über 1.350 Personen und umfangreiche inhaltliche Erweiterungen sind hinzugekommen.

Ich habe mich die letzten 6 Monate insbesondere mit #Auswanderung nach #Chillicothe #Ohio #USA beschäftigt, so dass inzwischen fast 1.000 Personen aus dieser #amerikanisch​en #Stadt, der früheren #Hauptstadt des #Bundesstaat​es enthalten sind.

#Ortsfamilienbuch #Onlineofb #Genealogie #Ahnenforschung #Genealogy #Familyhistory #Familysearch #Imigration

**Genealogy tools and migrating data from FamilySearch to WikiTree**

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TL;DR

– Just start with WikiTree as a main tool for building your family tree, but also check other platforms to find your ancestors.

– Moving ancestry data between platforms is possible, but far from from trivial

– A combination of several online tools (presented below) and offline research is needed to progress in genealogy research

– Dealing with long dead has very real impact on living.

Intro

I have a strange urge to research my roots and store the information to some system. I started entering my ancestors 10yrs ago in FamilySearch portal. I choose this one because it looked the least suspicious. Now I’m moving to WikiTree.

FamilySearch

FamilySearch uses the principle ‘collaborate on one big tree’. It’s free to use and it has some nice functions, like search old scanned church archives. In all these years I didn’t found any downsides, except … it’s a closed system. And they’re entering AI train heads-on. I accept the usefulness of ML for handwriting recognition, but chatbots and similar … no, thank you.

One of the most positive sides was I found my wife’s relatives in the US . One day I was checking the log of edits of her ancestors and found someone was editing her part of the tree and adding ancestors back to 1660. I contacted her and established a contact that was missing for almost a 100 years, from their migration to US around 1900. She told me about some other relatives from other parts from Slovenia, that I wasn’t aware of. We meet with them and received a thick genealogy book of forgotten branch of the family.
Interesting, dealing with long dead has a very real impacts on living 🙂

Some stats of my edits:

Ancestry

I also tried out Ancestry briefly, but I quickly dropped the idea because I don’t like the principle of private ancestral trees. Also, it’s a closed system, behind a paywall.

WikiTree

This year, as a part of my broader de-centralisation and de-corporatisation efforts, I choose to move my ancestors from FamilySearch to WikiTree.

WikiTree also uses ‘collaborative one big tree’ approach, but it is open and governed by a community.

For the purpose of data migration, I had to get the data out of FamilySearch first.

I installed Ancestral Quest Basic under Wine under Linux Mint, connected it with my FamilySearch account and exported the data in GED format to a local database. It took a little gymnastics, because if I exported only all my ancestors, it left out the parts of the family tree that are not my direct ancestors. I had to click on all my ancestors and export their descendants. This way I built a local database and hoped it contains all the data I inserted in FamilySearch.

Then imported GED archive to WikiTree. I assumed it will automatically merge the data, but no. It’s GEDCompare tool takes a smarter approach. Firstly it check the WikiTree data and compares with the imported data. Then it offered a table with all the persons I imported and their existing records in WikiTree. I have 2 options: 1. to compare and merge each person or 2. add it if it doesn’t exist.

Currently I’m halfway of my 460 records, but I’m progressing.

During my migration activities I found what I like and dislike about WikiTree:

Like:

• Collaborative type of building a shared family tree.
• The community is welcoming.
• I can invite other people to help me with editing. I can add email address to living persons and they’re invited to the WikiTree.
• I can set privacy for each record in details.
• 20+ various tree visualization tools, for example timelime tree:

Dislike:

• some data is not imported well. For example, some birth/death dates are interpreted wrongly (esp. from … to) and meta data like ‘burial site’ is just dropped to ‘bio’ section
• group photos can be tagged with names, but faces related to names can not be selected (as in FamilySearch)

Geneanet

During the research I recently found out about Geneanet portal. The nice thing about it it has a database of cemeteries, tombstones and their photograps. Some of them are even indexed and searchable. It’s a collaborative community effort: people photograph and index tombstones.

I found some my distant relatives using this tool I didn’t know about them before.

Matricula Online

Matricula Online includes scanned old(1600-1900) church documents (baptism, marriage, death) for some European countries: Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Luxembourg, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Italy. This is the best source for my research. The script gives me headaches, especially Kurrant (Gothic).

Additionally, local archive has a ‘status animarum’ books that are not available online. This books include a list of addresses and all the people that lived at the specific address. Useful to research whole families.

Arcanum maps

Arcanum maps help me to research old place names. It includes scanned Austro-hungary military and catastre maps.

Old place list – Seznam krajev

Seznam krajev is also a good resource to research how names of the places changed through the history.

Conclusion

My overall impression is I will stick with WikiTree as a main database for my family tree with the help of other tools. I hope I will pass the information to my children or other relatives to continue the work. The work of ancestry research is never done.

Interesting blogs

Genealogy research has a lot of traps: https://ancestryroads.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-magic-is-gone.html

https://blog.rozman.info/genealogy-and-migrating-data-from-familysearch-to-wikitree/

#ancestralquest #familysearch #ged #geneanet #wikitree #wine

FamilySearch CET: Nutzer-Stammbäume zum eigenständigen Forschen und Vernetzen

Der Weltbaum von FamilySearch bekommt Gesellschaft. Die Genealogie-Plattform bietet einen neuen Dienst zur Erprobung an: Nutzer-Stammbäume, die man eigenständig und im Team bearbeiten kann. Im Blog des Vereins für Computergenealogie (CompGen) haben wir bereits mehrfach über neue Funktionen im „Labor“ von FamilySearch berichtet – zuletzt etwa über die Volltextsuche mit KI. Nun ist eine weitere Funktion in die öffentliche Testphase gestartet, die das Potenzial hat, genealogisches […]

https://www.compgen.de/2025/07/familysearch-cet-nutzer-stammbaeume-zum-eigenstaendigen-forschen-und-vernetzen/

Well, f*ck.

BYU Family History Technology Lab (https://fhtl.org/) has some nice tools extending the FamilySearch tools. One is the RelativeFinder (https://www.relativefinder.org/), which can show you your relation with famous people.

#FamilySearch #RootsTech #FindYourRelatives #DonaldTrump #Trump #RelativeFinder #BYU #BrighamYoungUniversity #FHTL #genealogy #Ahnenforschung #Verwandtschaft #famous #famousPeople #Prominent #Promi #USPresident

Couldn't sleep anymore and took the chance to document one of the Polish forced laborers, who used to work for my great-grandfathers brother Joseph #Steurenthaler. Meet Marianna Pióro:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pióro-7

I really like, how one can link people on #WikiTree with each other, regardless of their relationship. That's a big advantage in comparison to the collaborative trees on #FamilySearch and #Geni

#Genealogy #Poland #Świętokrzyskie #Opatów

Konferenz Wien 2025: Digitise.Transform.Inspire

https://www.compgen.de/2025/09/konferenz-wien-2025-digitise-transform-inspire/

Wie MyHeritage und FamilySearch lebende Verwandte verbinden https://www.compgen.de/2025/05/wie-myheritage-und-familysearch-lebende-verwandte-verbinden/

#Ahnenforschung #MyHeritage #FamilySearch

Wie MyHeritage und FamilySearch lebende Verwandte verbinden

https://www.compgen.de/2025/05/wie-myheritage-und-familysearch-lebende-verwandte-verbinden/

@my_millennium Auf #FamilySearch gibt es zumindest Profile für Erdmann/Jeske https://www.familysearch.org/de/tree/person/details/GNWB-YCR und Witt/Kazmin https://www.familysearch.org/de/tree/person/details/G7N8-GZ5 . Vielleicht lohnt es sich, dort die Bearbeiter anzuschreiben und die Bearbeitungshistorie anzuschauen (falls die Profile nicht alle bereits von dir sind). Abgesehen davon, könnte es sich lohnen bei #WikiTree Profile zu diesen Personen anzulegen und alles reinzupacken, was du weißt, sodass der geneigte Amerikaner dich vielleicht zufällig beim Suchen findet.

Genealogie-Events in 2026

https://www.compgen.de/2025/12/genealogie-events-in-2026/

Okay, I double-checked and apparently "Descendants with Hints" is available in the app only.

From the FamilySearch app NOT the desktop!
* Open your Family Tree >
* Select an ancestor who's at least a Great-Grand-Parent >
* Open Person / Profile >
* Top right corner (3 dots / hamburger) has "Descendants with Hints" as an option

#GenChat #FamilySearch

On the desktop, your Home Page is the default landing. In the center options about the 3rd is Record Hints

@genchat

When you're logged in and click on the left-hand corner menu, it should offer Tasks; also if you start from your home page.

"Descendants with Hints" is from a personal profile (which I do thru the Tree to do one generation at a time), then the Right-hand corner menu selections.

#GenChat #FamilySearch

@genchat

Nope, FamilySearch. I was poking around one day when I got frustrated with the Tasks that hadn't shown any new records to consider for an ancestor.

#GenChat #FamilySearch

It takes individual documents, and pulls potential profile matches for a human (TM) to evaluate.

I've found a lot of bare-bones profiles, and hints for 1950/1940 censuses as well as the 20th century military draft registrations that went live "recently"

#GenChat #FamilySearch

@genchat

With Real Life intruding, it tends to be quick 'n' dirty.

FamilySearch has some useful options for me; the ever-popular Tasks on the drop-down menu.
If you've run thru all the easy/simple ones from there, try the "Descendents With Hints" option - from the Tree, select an ancestor (at least a great-grandparent if not further back), open their profile, and look at the menu selections from the top right (3 dots / hamburger). It will pull from far reaches of these people.

I also receive the 5-a-day emails, and have saved the most recent email they send to prompt checking of hints.

#GenChat #FamilySearch

„Familienbuch 6.0“ für den FamilySearch-Datenaustausch zertifiziert

https://www.compgen.de/2025/10/familienbuch-6-0-fuer-den-familysearch-datenaustausch-zertifiziert/

75. Deutscher Genealogentag – Rückschau und Ausblick

https://www.compgen.de/2025/10/75-deutscher-genealogentag-rueckschau-und-ausblick/

75. Deutscher Genealogentag – Tag 2

https://www.compgen.de/2025/09/75-deutscher-genealogentag-tag-2/

75. Deutscher Genealogentag – Tag 1

https://www.compgen.de/2025/09/75-deutscher-genealogentag-tag-1/

Auf nach Frankfurt! Der 75. Deutsche Genealogentag startet am Freitag

https://www.compgen.de/2025/09/auf-nach-frankfurt-der-75-deutsche-genealogentag-startet-am-freitag/

Einsatz von KI bei FamilySearch

Der Vortrag von Torsten Kux, Area Manager Europe von FamilySearch International, am 3. Juli 2025 im Zoom-Meeting des Ahnenforscherstammtischs Unna über den Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) bei FamilySearch fand großen Zuspruch. Da nicht alle den Vortrag verfolgen konnten, wollen wir hier auf das sehenswerte und gerade veröffentlichte YouTube-Video verweisen, das der Organisator Georg Palmüller auf der Webseite des Ahnenforscherstammtisches verlinkt hat. Neben der Aufzeichnung […]

https://www.compgen.de/2025/08/einsatz-von-ki-bei-familysearch/

75. Deutscher Genealogentag im September 2025 in Frankfurt/Main

https://www.compgen.de/2025/08/75-deutscher-genealogentag-in-frankfurt/

Im heutigen #geniatip möchte ich auf den #Mitglieder- #Bereich der @HfV_eV hinweisen.

Auch wenn die meisten #hessisch​en #Kirchenbücher auch auf #Archion #Matricula und #Familysearch verfügbar sind, sind sie hier im Bereich " #Digitalisiert​e #Kirchenbuchduplikate " in hervorragender #Scan-#Qualität gut geordnet von A wie #Alsbach bis Z wie #Zwingenberg gut zu recherchieren.

Im Bereich #Transkription​en sind zudem bereits viele Passagen von Mitgliedern transkribiert worden.
#Genealogy

Im heutigen #geniatip möchte ich auf den #Mitglieder- #Bereich der @HfV_eV hinweisen.

Auch wenn die meisten #hessisch​en #Kirchenbücher auch auf #Archion #Matricula und #Familysearch verfügbar sind, sind sie hier im Bereich " #Digitalisiert​e #Kirchenbuchduplikate " in hervorragender #Scan-#Qualität gut geordnet von A wie #Alsbach bis Z wie #Zwingenberg gut zu recherchieren.

Im Bereich #Transkription​en sind zudem bereits viele Passagen von Mitgliedern transkribiert worden.
#Genealogy

Im heutigen #geniatip möchte ich auf den #Mitglieder- #Bereich der @HfV_eV hinweisen.

Auch wenn die meisten #hessisch​en #Kirchenbücher auch auf #Archion #Matricula und #Familysearch verfügbar sind, sind sie hier im Bereich " #Digitalisiert​e #Kirchenbuchduplikate " in hervorragender #Scan-#Qualität gut geordnet von A wie #Alsbach bis Z wie #Zwingenberg gut zu recherchieren.

Im Bereich #Transkription​en sind zudem bereits viele Passagen von Mitgliedern transkribiert worden.
#Genealogy

If you missed CeCe Moore talking about her involvement with the #PBS show Finding Your Roots at the recent RootsTech conference, then you should check it out!

#FindingYourRoots #DNA #GeneticGenealogy #Genealogy #RootsTech #FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/telling-stories-with-dna-case-studies-from-pbs-finding-your-roots

Who is going to #RootsTech2025?

Who is already there?

Are you my long lost #cousin? Check out My Relatives.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/find-relatives-rootstech-2025

Stop by and see me at the @wikitree booth. I will be the one in an orange tshirt. 😉

#genealogy #RootsTech #CousinBait #WikiTree #FamilySearch

Not too keen on the #LDS running the #FamilySearch site, but I must admit that they're really on to it. Collecting family trees. Trying to get as much info on to #Gramps, but have to go back to 1620...so far. A mission that I'll work away at, little by little, day by day. All saved locally. #genealogy

Der #geniatip heute kann natürlich nur die #genialogica sein: https://genealogica.online/

Heute mit interessanten Vorträgen über #mastodon, über #software #ahnenblatt & #heredis, #auswanderer , #google #maps in der #ahnenforschung und das #Nationalarchiv von #israel. Daneben auch Aussteller wie #compgen #familysearch #gendi & #archion. Auch recht nett: das #Padlet mit Orten.

Vielleicht sieht man sich ja dort #online

Aktuell gerade mit 145 #Teilnehmer

#Genealogy #genialogie #genealogica2025