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A New Way to Search: Exploring FamilySearch’s Full Text Feature

Discover the power of FamilySearch’s new AI-powered full text search. This amazing tool unlocks more than 1 billion records once hidden in images, helping you uncover information that traditional indexes may have missed. In this class, you’ll see how full text search works, explore the kinds of records it can reveal, and learn practical strategies for digging deeper, finding hidden family connections, and maximizing your research with this exciting new resource.

This beginner-level session is sponsored by the BYU Family History Program.

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