Be a Super Sleuth: Accessing & Using Images and Full Text Search

Leeds & Grenville Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

Join us on Monday, February 3rd at 7:00 pm via Zoom for our first presentation of 2025! Author and speaker Jill Morelli will speak about Family Search research techniques. Her topic is “Be a Super Sleuth: Accessing & Using Images and Full Text Search”

Did you know that Family Search is placing their recently digitized material online in less than 24 hours after it is scanned? Did you know that they are placing them, not in the Catalog, but in Images? This makes the images tab (under Search) the most up-to-date repository of FS records–not the Catalog. Did you know that using Artificial Intelligence, you can conduct an all-word search for certain documents in their “Lab”? What is a Super Sleuth to do? We will learn how to access these two features of FS to find your ancestors. Treasures await!

Jill Morelli, CG, CGL is a writer, lecturer and co-founder of the online Applied Genealogy Institute, providing hands-on educational opportunities for intermediate and advanced genealogists. In 2017, she founded the Certification Discussion Group, an online series discussing her certification journey in order to demystify the process for others. Jill is past president of the Seattle Genealogical Society, co-chair of SGS Centennial 2023, program director for the Puget Sound-APG chapter, and a member of many local and national genealogical societies.

To register for this presentation, visit our Branch website leedsandgrenville.ogs.on.ca for more details.