It’s with a note of sadness that we bid a fond farewell to Find-A-Record, one the most popular and effective online tools for FamilySearch Family Tree. In Project 1: Family Tree (FS) of The Family History Guide, Goal 9 was dedicated to learning and using Find-A-Record, which helped you find data problems, research opportunities, and possible duplicates across your family tree.

Here’s the adjustment we’ve made:

The second half of Goal 8: Add Sources has been moved into Goal 9, which is now called “More about Sources”. The revised Choices for each Goal are listed below:

Goal 8: Add Sources

• Choice A: Learn about sourcing and why it’s important.
• Choice B: See record hints for ancestors in Landscape view.
• Choice C: Review and attach a source to an ancestor’s Person page.

Goal 9: More about Sources

• Choice A: Tag events to the sources you have found, or edit or detach sources.
• Choice B: Print sources on a Family Group Record.
• Choice C: Use the Sources feature in the Person page to find and attach sources.
• Choice D: Use the Source Box feature in FamilySearch to keep track of available sources for your ancestors.

What Find-A-Record is Saying

Below is part of the notice posted on the Find-A-Record website, to clarify why Find-A-Record is no longer available:

“We are no longer compatible with FamilySearch.

Will Find-A-Record come back?

Probably not.

What happened?

On September 18th, FamilySearch made a change that broke our integration. The change would be very costly to adapt to.

That’s not nice.

FamilySearch gave us plenty of notice that this would happen. We chose not to adapt.

What should I do now?

If you used Find-A-Record to improve the data quality of your tree then our best recommendation is to use the data problems identified in the tree. Thankfully they now include possible duplicates in their data problems.”