Getting Started

Training Guides

For Our Beginning Friends:

General Public Quick Start Training Guide (English)

General Public Quick Start Training Guide (Spanish)

For Our Beginning Patrons, Consultants, Leaders, Trainers and Training the Trainers:

Member Quick Start Training Guide

Second Thursday Trainings

We offer monthly drop in trainings for FamilySearch consultants from anywhere, also open to the public. This is a great opportunity to drop in to improve your FamilySearch skills! We would love to have you join us! Click here to see our next training.

Introduction to FamilySearch - Fourth Thursdays @ 7:00PM - Coming Soon

We offer this monthly public drop-in training for anyone (13 and up) with a permanent email and phone, who would like a FREE FamilySearch account and/or FREE volunteer support building a family tree. We would love to have you join us for a brief introduction and website overview, followed by a computer lab activity to get you going! Just show up! Plan for 60 minutes total, but stay and practice until closing at 9:00PM as desired. Please download, print, fill out the Four Generation Family Chart and bring it to class. Free forever, with no proselyting or solicitation in connection with any FamilySearch account or training. 

FamilySearch Learning Lessons Table of Contents

When you've mastered our Quick Start fundamentals, Learning Lessons on Family Search is a great indexed place to get answers about specific questions: https://www.familysearch.org/en/fieldops/quick-start-learning-lessons-table-of-contents.

You can also find this link through the FamilySearch website. Go to familysearch.org home page (No need to log in!). Click on the question mark in the circle, top right. In the search box, type "How do I" and click Enter on your keyboard.