The Promised Blessings of Family History

See all the recent promises given by General Authorities about doing family history work, and how it will bless our lives here and now, not just our deceased ancestors as you find, take, and teach.

Watch the Video

How Partner Sites Can Help You Find a Name to Submit to the Temple: Records

Use the unique record sets on partner sites to find more ancestors to take to the temple!

Read More

Releasing Reservations After Two Years

Starting in the next few months the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will begin releasing user temple reservations that have been inactive for more than two years. See what you can do.

Read More

Help Prune the Family Tree

A new feature on Family Tree aims to alert and prompt users to fix duplicate entries and data issues before requesting temple ordinances.

Read More

Partner News

FamilySearch is pleased to announce that the following genealogy sites are now FamilySearch certified:  Kinpoint, Missing Parents, Research Indicators For Descendants, Research Indicators For Your Relatives, and Tree Hints For Your Relatives.

Read More

RootsTech Lives On: Have You Scheduled Your Family Discovery Day?

The tremendous joy and fun of discovering family can be shared in your ward or stake, branch or district when you sign up to host a local family discovery day. With content from RootsTech and other time saving planning materials you can easily create an event to engage members in your area to Find family names, prepare to Take them to the temple, and begin to Teach others to do the same.  Sign up to host an event today and learn more at www.LDS.org/hostfair.

Nothing Is Impossible

Since my childhood, my heart has been turned to my ancestors, so when the invitation came from my bishop to participate in indexing, I readily accepted.

Read More