FamilySearch a service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Description:
This site, maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is a well-known and important source for most genealogists. The cleanly designed home page offers searching for ancestors, which allows you to search for a person's name, use a keyword Search, a subject search on the Web and in the SourceGuide and Custom Search, where you can limit your search to any of the specific files offered. Files include the U.S. Census, the U.S. Social Security death index, and the International Genealogical Index, among others. The site accesses the catalog fof the Family History Library. It also provides tools and information for doing genealogical research, including providing free downloadable software designed for genealogical work, the Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and a companion chart producing software
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