Tuesday, April 01, 2014

FindaGrave and TreeConnect

When these two websites are used together, one can more easily create a useful Source for their ancestors in the FamilySearch Family Tree database.  The execution steps will become fairly simple:
Go to FindaGrave.com and sign up for a free account, then sign in.
Go to RecordSeek.com and drag the "TreeConnect" bookmarklet (a brown rectangle) up to your browser's bookmark bar (which must be showing), which will put "TreeConnect" on that bar.
Go to FamilySearch.org and sign up for a free account, then sign in and establish your pedigree
Go to one of your ancestors in your pedigree and go to his/her Person Page view
Go back to FindaGrave.com and do a search for that ancestor.
Drag your cursor over the text in the memorial that you want to copy and click on TreeConnect.
Click on Save and sign in with your FamilySearch user name and password.
Go back to the Person Page and scroll down to the Sources section and click on "Attach from Source Box"
In your Source Box, that new source should be at the top of the list. Click on "Attach" on the right
Explain why you are attaching this FindaGrave memorial to this ancestor and click on OK.
Go back to the Person Page and click on the Source entry and "Tag" it for the pertinent items

These steps will be demonstrated in the first class in the Beginner Track in our Family History Fair on April 26th in New Brighton.  Twin Cities Family History Day 2014 With this new Source, you will have provided some documentation for your published Conclusions about your ancestor.