WorldCat is the world's largest, most comprehensive database of library collections, allowing users to search the catalogs of over 15,000 libraries in more than 200 countries. This video introduces you to the program

Family Tree Maker is a very popular, stand-alone program that allows you to create a digital tree of your ancestors.

This video shows you the basics of creating a family tree from scratch using any current version of the app.

If you use Family Tree Maker to create your family tree, you may wish to take advantage of its publishing tools. FTM allows users to create, customize, and export books, charts, and reports.

This video explains some of the basics of FTM publishing.

If you’ve accumulated a lot of family history documents and photos and have successfully digitized them using a scanner or by downloading them, you will want to organize them. To do so, you can store them in folders on your Macintosh.

This video describes a useful hierarchy of folders, as well as folder naming conventions, and then demonstrates how to create the folders.

If you’ve accumulated a lot of family history documents and photos and have successfully digitized them using a camera, scanner or web download, you will want to organize them. To do so, you can store them in folders on your Windows PC.

This video describes a useful hierarchy of folders, as well as folder naming conventions, and then demonstrates how to create the folders.

Many of us our cell phones in genealogy, such as when visiting a cemetery to take photos of tombstones.

But how do you transfer those photos to your computer? In this video, learn how to transfer cell phone photos to an email address, the cloud, or to your laptop.

A GEDCOM file is a standardized, text-only file format used to transfer family tree data between different genealogy software programs, websites, and researchers. It ensures compatibility, allowing users to share, back up, or move research—including names, dates, places, and relationships—without losing information.

This video demonstrates how to create a GEDCOM of your Family Tree Maker (any version) data.

If you write family stories or histories using Microsoft Word, they can get quite large if you insert a lot of photos. This can make the file impossible to send via email and share with others. To reduce the file size tremendously, you can save it as a PDF.

This video will show you how.

If you use Microsoft Word and have a document written in a foreign language, you can use the Translate tool to convert it into English.

This video provides a quick demonstration.

If you come across a massive document on the web and wish to search it for occurrences of an ancestor’s name, town, or other text, doing so can be tedious. To save lots of time, you can use the Find command.

Newspapers contain fascinating information about families. Today, millions of pages of newspapers, dating back to the 1800s, have been digitized and made available on the web. Many of these sites are free, and enable the user to locate articles such as obituaries, wedding announcements, and even family scandals.

This video demonstrates how to capture an article using one of these free online resources.