Search Records
Learn to search historical records - census, birth, death, marriage, and immigration documents.
Search Records
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Introduction to Records
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FamilySearch has BILLIONS of historical records - documents from the past that contain information about your ancestors.
Types of records:
• Census records (who lived where, when)
• Birth, marriage, death certificates
• Immigration & ship passenger lists
• Military records
• Church records (baptisms, marriages)
Learning to search these records is a superpower for genealogy!
Records can fill in gaps and prove connections between generations.
