These are the notes I took at the family history class the Sunday. Any inaccuracies or mistakes is the fault of the note taker. Hopefully it will be of use.

• Different people have different ways to learn information. If someone has a blank look on their face when you give them instructions, approach the topic from a different perspective or technique. (Mel: I learn better hands on. I recommend you that the student drive the computer.
• When you look at someone’s family tree you can write down their ID number. On the right side account it will give you suggestions and hints that can help you document and move forward on your work. It displays only three hints of the time. As you respond to each hint and remove it, a follows fill the slot. Until the all or responded to. These hints come from various sources that many of them may come from family search.
• Attach a source by clicking on the side arrow – triangle. Click on the arrow. The record comes up. It gives you a choice to review the record and to attach the record. Green boxes mean that the source has already been attached. Attachment is how you document sources for supporting information on an individual.
• When you decide to merge account information, the account with the most of the information should be your primary account. merge the account of less information to the primary. You can write down the ID number of the account that has less information and then you can do a merge by ID number. This will not delete the original file from the database but it will remove from display in your particular family search display.
• You want to be very careful on a merge and be aware of possible mistakes. You can look at the history of your actions to undo something you done. You can go to profile and on the right side should be recent changes or history.
• Select a name. Look for duplicate names.
• Under help you can select a language and it can and on the right should be recent changes or history. The family search names that are needed for that language such as death birth that. Many non-English people can log in the family search under their own language.
• For the ease of copying data, you do a copy (Ctr + C) and paste (Ctr + V).

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