The full-text search at FamilySearch is allowing many of us to make discoveries in local records that could only have been dreamed about years ago. That\u2019s great and it is a wonderful service and a boon to genealogists. But there\u2019s some catches that we need to be aware of as we sift through search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are only searching what FamilySearch has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we\u2019re not even searching all of what FamilySearch has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the full-text transcription of records is helpful, but it\u2019s not perfect. There are errors and there may be references to your person of interest that you are not finding because of difficulties in reading and transcribing the script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you perform that full-text search at FamilySearch, do you know what records it includes for your county of interest? And if it includes court records, do you know which ones? Does FamilySearch have all the court records for a county or does it only have a portion of them?
If you don\u2019t know what you are searching, then you don\u2019t know what you are missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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