Adding siblings when no parent is listed on the historical record

The FamilySearch Source Linker is a great way to connect a source to multiple people listed in the Family Tree. It can be awkward when the people listed in the historical record do not match the people listed in the Family Tree, This short video shows how to handle one of those situations.

To view it in a larger size, click here. (Sorry, but I have no control of what videos Youtube suggests after my video has finished playing.)

Follow-up on a recent class

 Brother P,

Please share this with the others who were in my class on Sunday.

1. Help Others feature - This lets you sign into someone else's account and help them while seeing everything that they can see. The process is to click Help Others (e.g. on a Person page), then sign in using their (a) Username and Helper Number or 

(b) First Name, Last Name, and Date of Birth and Helper Number
The Helper Number is usually the last 5 characters of the Church Membership Number (which the member can find in the Member Tools app or temple recommend.) The member can also find it when signed in FamilySearch by clicking their name (in the upper right corner of the screen) then clicking Settings and Permissions 

2. Free research account with Ancestry.com, etc. for Church members, go to 

https://www.familysearch.org/campaign/partneraccess/

If you later forget the username or password for one of these accounts, they usually allow you to click Forgot Password and input your email address to recover the password.
From the Person page of anyone in Family Tree, you can easily use Search Records to search for historical records of that person and their family. (We cannot guarantee that you will find what you are hoping for, but we have simplified the process of searching.) 

Always check the blue FamilySearch Source Hints, as these represent research done by indexers that appears to show evidence of this person in historical records 

3. Research Wiki - This will tell you what kinds of records exist for any particular country, and where to find these records. Sign in FamilySearch and click Search > Research Wiki

This can save you a lot of time and effort. The records that you expect may not exist for that country, but there may be other records that you would not expect.

4, Ordinances Ready - The Church has added this easy way for members to find family names to take to the temple. Sign in FamilySearch, click Temple > Ordinances Ready, and indicate what ordinances you would like to do. This will allow you to print a card for the person(s) you have chosen. Under normal circumstances, the card will remain valid for 90 days, but there is no time limit while the temples are closed for proxy ordinances.
These names come from (a) your own reserved ordinances list (if you have them), then (b) family members who have been reserved by other people and shared with the temple, and lastly, (c) unrelated people whose ordinances have been shared with the temple. But you can count on always finding someone to take to the temple.

5. Indexing -  If members find research too hard, they can be encouraged to do Indexing. Indexing makes historical records searchable by computer, Then FamilySearch uses this information to try to find the people who are referred to in the historical record. It then suggests this connection as a Source Hint.

We will be blessed as we serve our ancestors and their families.

Bill Buchanan
Assistant Temple and Family History Leader
Edmonton Alberta North Stake
blog: http://billsfamilyhistorycenter.blogspot.com 
site: http://billbuchanan.byethost17.com/