New York City Family History Center

The Family History Center is Reopening as of October 23!!

Our hours will be limited to start as we ramp up staffing, so check our website to verify before coming. We'll be open most Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for the time being. Masks required.

https://www.familysearch.org/discovery/compare
Here is a fun feature in FamilySearch: see which ancestors you look the most like.

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If you use FamilySearch, we think you will enjoy the free software created by the Family History Technology Lab at BYU.
https://fhtl.byu.edu/
In particular, Virtual Pedigree allows you to view your entire family tree ... even going back hundreds of generations.
https://fhtl.byu.edu/apps/virtual-pedigree.html
And, if you have hundreds of ancestors in FamilySearch, Relative Finder can show you how you are related to lots of famous people.
https://fhtl.byu.edu/apps/relativefinder.html

RelativeFinder - BYU FHTL Ever wonder if you've got some long-lost cousins out there? Relative Finder allows you to see how you are related to friends, coworkers, prophets, historical figures, and more! Use our community features to connect with your relatives from around the globe!

New York City's international character often leads interesting people from around the world to visit our Family History Center. This film crew from a European family history TV show visited our FHC to seek help researching an individual with New York City roots for an upcoming show.

Tip from the FamilySearch Blog
https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/explore-historical-images/
"If you haven’t found your ancestors by using the main search form on FamilySearch.org, it may be that their information is locked inside a waiting-to-be-indexed digital image. In 2018 alone, FamilySearch added over 432 million new record images to its online collections. But it can take years to catalog and index these images so they can be readily searched.

Fortunately, the tools for finding the record image you need online are improving dramatically. Well ahead of any formal indexing or cataloging, the new FamilySearch Explore Historical Images tool can help you find records about your ancestors more easily, even when their information is not text-searchable and seems to be locked inside a digital image."

New Tool for Searching Photographed Records Every day, new records are being photographed around the world and added to FamilySearch. Search these record images almost instantly using Explore Historical Images.