Editing FamilySearch (section)

==Website==
===Historical Records===
The main service of the FamilySearch website is to offer access to digital images and indexes of genealogical records. These images can be searched along with a number of databases. While access to the records is always free, some records have restricted access, and can only be viewed at a FamilySearch Center, at an Affiliate Library, or by members of the Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ask/salesforce/viewArticle?version=ka23A000000qfRJQAY&lang=en_US|title=What are the image restrictions in Historical Records?|website=FamilySearch Help|access-date=3 Aug 2019}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Tanner|first=James|url=https://rejoiceandbeexceedingglad.blogspot.com/2017/08/restricted-records-on-familysearchorg.html |title=Restricted Records on FamilySearch.org|website=Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: Genealogy from the perspective of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|date=27 Aug 2017|access-date=3 Aug 2019}}</ref> FamilySearch.org also contains the catalog of the [[FamilySearch Library]] in Salt Lake City, Utah. The library holds genealogical records for over 110 countries, territories, and possessions, including over 2.4 million rolls of [[microfilm]]ed genealogical records; 742,000 [[microfiche]]; 490,000 books, serials, and other formats; and 4,500 periodicals.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHL/frameset_library.asp | title=About the Family History Library | publisher=FamilySearch.org | access-date=March 11, 2010 | archive-date=February 6, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206021655/http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp | url-status=dead }}</ref>

===FamilySearch Family Tree===
FamilySearch FamilyTree (FSFT) is a "one world tree," or a unified database that aims to contain one entry for each person recorded in genealogical records. All FamilySearch users are able to add persons, link them to existing persons or merge duplicates. Sources, images, and audio files can also be attached to persons in the tree.<ref>{{cite web|last=Morton|first=Sunny|url=https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/online-family-tree/|title=The World's Largest Shared Family Tree|work=FamilySearch Blog|date=15 Feb 2019|access-date=3 Aug 2019}}</ref>

There are also several features specific to the membership of the Church, facilitating [[Temple (LDS Church)|temple]] [[Ordinance (Latter Day Saints)|ordinance]] work. In keeping with an agreement with Jewish groups and to prevent abuse, performing ordinances for Holocaust victims or celebrities results in account suspension until the researcher proves a legitimate family connection to the subject of their search.<ref>{{citation |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=53667482&itype=CMSID#:~:text=A%20technological%20crackdown%2C%20telegraphed%20by,called%20baptisms%20for%20the%20dead. |title= Mormon church blocks whistle-blower's access to baptism data |first= Derek P. |last= Jensen |date= March 7, 2012 |newspaper= [[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131021215344/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53667482/church-names-radkey-proxy.html.csp |archive-date= October 21, 2013 }}</ref> FamilySearch allows users to input same-sex marriages or other unions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/12/10/21004733/familysearch-same-sex-family-trees-lgbtq-geneology|title=FamilySearch completes project to allow same-sex family trees|newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|access-date=10 December 2019}}</ref>

===Indexing projects===
{{Main|FamilySearch Indexing}}

Searchable indexes of the records on FamilySearch are created by volunteers of the [[FamilySearch Indexing]] program. To ensure greater accuracy, each batch of records is indexed by an indexer and is then checked by a more experienced indexer. Indexing volunteers need not be members of the Church. FamilySearch is currently working with genealogical societies all around the world to index local projects.
 
At the end of 2010, 548 million vital records had been transcribed and made publicly available through the FamilySearch website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://media.familysearch.org/familysearch-volunteers-have-indexed-over-500-million-records/|title=FamilySearch Volunteers Have Indexed Over 500 Million Records|date=1 Feb 2011|work=FamilySearch Blog}}</ref>  In April 2013, FamilySearch Indexing completed their goal to offer 1 billion indexed records online.<ref>{{cite web|last=Connolly|first=Courtney|date=22 Apr 2013|url=https://familysearch.org/blog/en/billion/|title=Thanks A Billion|work=FamilySearch Blog}}</ref>

===Education===
FamilySearch offers free lessons on FamilySearch.org to help people learn how to find their ancestors. The topics range from basic research to training on specific record types and are designed for both beginners and experienced researchers. Most of the classes come from research consultants in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, but FamilySearch is also collaborating with partners such as the [[Mid-Continent Public Library]] in Independence, Missouri, to record and post classes.

In 2007, it was decided to start a [[FamilySearch Research Wiki]] to help FamilySearch users and others researching genealogy and family history to find and share information on data sources and research tips.  The first version of the wiki was built on the [[Plone (software)|Plone]] wiki software product, but it was soon discovered that [[MediaWiki]] software was much more suitable, so in January 2008 it was moved to the MediaWiki platform.  In the intervening years it was rolled out in other languages, and as of July 2014 it was available in 11 languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Non-English_versions_of_the_wiki|title=FamilySearch Wiki:Non-English versions of the wiki|work=FamilySearch Research Wiki|access-date=3 Aug 2019}}</ref>  The other language wikis are found via links at the bottom of the wiki homepage.  The wiki in English had over 79,500 articles and over 150,000 registered users as of July 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Special:Statistics|title=Statistics|work=FamilySearch Research Wiki|access-date=3 Aug 2019}}</ref>