Be a RootsTech 2017 Exhibitor!

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Be a RootsTech 2017 Exhibitor Exhibitor registration is now available for RootsTech 2017, the largest family history conference in the world, happening February 8–11, 2017 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in the heart of Salt Lake City, Utah. With more than 24,000 attendees, RootsTech offers companies an incredible and unique opportunity to increase brand exposure, identify new opportunities, and engage with industry leaders, influencers, and customers. If your product or service helps individuals discover, preserve, and share family connections, we invite you to visit RootsTech.org by clicking on the link below to learn more and to register. LEARN MORE Need housing while exhibiting at RootsTech 2017?  Four Salt Lake City hotels are now taking reservations for Rootstech 2017. Each are offering reduced nightly rates for RootsTech attendees including RootsTech exhibitors. Don’t wait to make your reservation. Rooms usually fill up months before the event. Visit RootsTech.org for more information.

Enter the 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown!

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Enter the 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown! FamilySearch International is looking for the next big innovative idea that will impact an industry worth billions! Held in conjunction with RootsTech, happening February 8-11, 2017 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah, the 2017 RootsTech Innovator Showdown will be a global innovation competition for developers and entrepreneurs seeking an opportunity to impact the growing family history industry while competing for $100,000 in cash and prizes. Innovators in any industry that have solutions directly or indirectly related to family history are invited to enter the RootsTech Innovator Showdown, one of the largest innovation competition in North America. Click on the button below for Showdown details and to enter. Submission portal closes December 1, 2016. ENTER THE SHOWDOWN

RootsTech 2017 Registration Now Open!

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RootsTech 2017 Registration Now Open! Registration is now open for RootsTech, the world’s largest genealogy and technology conference in the world. Happening February 8–11, 2017, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, RootsTech 2017 will empower you to celebrate your family across generations using the newest technologies available. For a limited time, the full RootsTech conference pass is available at a discounted price of $159. Regularly priced at $269, that’s over $100 in savings! A full RootsTech conference pass includes access to: Over 200 RootsTech breakout sessions of all experience levels taught by industry professionals The huge expo hall with hundreds of family history and technology exhibitors Daily keynote sessions with inspiring messages Evening events with popular and exciting entertainment Register today, and learn how to discover your roots through technology! REGISTER TODAY Don’t wait—the price increases to $189 on October 14. RootsTech, hosted by FamilySearch, is a global conference celebrating families across generations, where people of all ages are inspired to discover, preserve, and share their family stories and connections. This annual event has become the largest of its kind in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants worldwide

New FamilySearch.org Collections: Week of September 26, 2016

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New Collections Update: Week of September 26, 2016

Summary

The Find A Grave Index continues to grow with a new addition of over 6 million indexed records. Also, find more indexed records from Austrailia and the United States Revolutionary War. See the interactive table below for these and more historic records added this week at FamilySearch.org. Join our online indexing volunteers anytime and help make more of these exciting collections discoverable to more people. Find out how atFamilySearch.org/Indexing. 

Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers 1818-1872	156,667	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Australia Tasmania Civil Registration of Births 1899-1912	69,290	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Australia Cemetery Inscriptions 1802-2005	352,527	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Find A Grave Index	6,298,610	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection

Searchable historic records are made available on FamilySearch.org through the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. These volunteers transcribe (index) information from digital copies of handwritten records to make them easily searchable online. More volunteers are needed (particularly those who can read foreign languages) to keep pace with the large number of digital images being published online at FamilySearch.org. Learn more about volunteering to help provide free access to the world's historic genealogical records online at FamilySearch.org/indexing.

About FamilySearch.org

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources for free at FamilySearch.org or through more than 4,921 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

FamilySearch New Collections Update: Week of September 19, 2016

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New Collections Update: Week of September 19, 2016

Summary

Over 1.5 million indexed records were published this week. The two largest collections provide valuable Minnesota Obituaries and Argentina Catholic Church Records and the collection of Utah LDS Mission Calls and Recommendations 1917-1918 were also expanded.See the interactive table below for these and more historic records added this week atFamilySearch.org. Join our online indexing volunteers anytime and help make more of these exciting collections discoverable to more people. Find out how at FamilySearch.org/Indexing. 

Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918	4,831	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Utah LDS Mission Calls and Recommendations 1877-1918	39,590	80,863	New indexed records and images collection
California San Diego Chinese Passenger and Crew Lists 1905-1923	1,807	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Texas San Antonio Alien Arrivals May 1944-March 1952	4,445	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Argentina Córdoba Catholic Church Records 1557-1974	449,874	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Minnesota Obituaries 1865-2006	977,877	132,398	New indexed records and images collection

Searchable historic records are made available on FamilySearch.org through the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. These volunteers transcribe (index) information from digital copies of handwritten records to make them easily searchable online. More volunteers are needed (particularly those who can read foreign languages) to keep pace with the large number of digital images being published online at FamilySearch.org. Learn more about volunteering to help provide free access to the world's historic genealogical records online at FamilySearch.org/indexing.

About FamilySearch.org

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources for free at FamilySearch.org or through more than 4,921 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

FamilySearch New Collections Update: Week of September 12, 2016

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New Collections Update: Week of September 12, 2016

Summary

Searchable records are becoming more and more available across the globe. The most recent published collections are great evidence of that. From the large indexed 1911 census in Denmark to browsable images from Korea, see the interactive table below for these and more historic records added this week at FamilySearch.org. Join our online indexing volunteers anytime and help make more of these exciting collections discoverable to more people. Find out how at FamilySearch.org/Indexing. 

Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
Denmark Census 1911	2,792,790	447,167	New indexed records and images collection
Hawaii Obituaries Index ca. 1980-present	9,943	10,000	Added indexed records and images to an existing collection
Iowa State Census 1925	15,530	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Czech Republic Church Books 1552-1963	9,497	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Germany Schleswig-Holstein Kreis Schleswig Civil Registration 1874-1983	135,479	192,128	New indexed records and images collection
United States Freedmen's Bureau Land and Property Records 1865-1872	102,418	70,540	New indexed records and images collection
Wyoming Star Valley Independent Obituaries 1901-2015	101,038	8,671	New indexed records and images collection
BillionGraves Index	431,746	431,746	Added indexed records and images to an existing collection
Korea Civil Service Examinations and Records of Officials and Employees 1392-1910	0	933	Added images to an existing collection
Korea Collection of Genealogies 1200-2014	0	4,296	Added images to an existing collection
Maine Crew Lists Arriving at Robbinston 1947-1954	3,025	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Massachusetts Boston Passenger Lists 1820-1891	8,450	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Australia Tasmania Miscellaneous Records 1829-2001	13,934	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Hungary Civil Registration 1895-1980	50,279	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Sweden Gävleborg Church Records 1616-1908; index 1671-1860	5,124	577	Added indexed records and images to an existing collection
Sweden Jönköping Church Records 1581-1935; index 1633-1860	4,942	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Arkansas Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Records 1867-2013	84,121	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Maine Civil War Enlistment Papers 1862-1865	34,697	96,711	New indexed records and images collection
West Virginia Naturalization Records 1814-1991	242	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Virgin Islands US Church Records 1765-2010	12,967	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Ohio Crawford County Obituaries 1860-2004	45,287	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Texas Laredo Index of Arrivals 1903-1929	616,001	623,774	New indexed records and images collection
North Carolina Discharge and Statement of Service Records 1940-1948	196,206	205,954	New indexed records and images collection

Searchable historic records are made available on FamilySearch.org through the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. These volunteers transcribe (index) information from digital copies of handwritten records to make them easily searchable online. More volunteers are needed (particularly those who can read foreign languages) to keep pace with the large number of digital images being published online at FamilySearch.org. Learn more about volunteering to help provide free access to the worldís historic genealogical records online at FamilySearch.org/indexing.

About FamilySearch.org

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources for free at FamilySearch.org or through more than 4,921 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.