New Family Search Features

For those who use Family Search for their researching like I do, will find a few changes when they log in.
Quite a few records have been updated these past few months including marriage and death records. My family ties are in New York so I was so excited to be able to see the names of my great grandparents on my father's side. Until now we did not know his great grandmother or if we were sure of his great grandfather's first name. Lots of holes were filled in. Being they were from Germany I wasn't able to go back too far but I will continue to research. I was even able to find out when some of his family died and where they are buried. Just wish they were buried a little closer.
The next big change was being able to search not only on the Family Search website when researching a particular relative, but now we can also research Ancestry, Find My Past, and My Heritage. Now these other sites have subscriptions but when you use the link from your relatives page to search it does give you search results. This may lead to a little snippet of info that you did not have before. I have been able to get some more info on my family just by doing this.
I hope you find this useful and have luck with your research.

What Flag is That?

Maybe some of you would like to add your ancestor's country's flag to your research. I know with me some of my ancestors have very little information on them. Just dates for some and where they were born. I try to add information of their country of birth and other historical information concerning the town they lived or died in. Just so I have a little more information on them. Which occasionally leads to information I did not have on them before. But anyways...getting back to adding research; I found a site that lists flags. It is easy to navigate around and it seems flags are being added.

It is called the Easy Flag Identifier . If you are researching ancestors from America don't forget that every state here has a flag of their own. Or you might have pictures that may have a picture of or the flag itself to help you identify the picture.

I hope that helps some people out with their research.

* Just a little note here: It has been really busy for me in the last few weeks. Spring is here and I have been cleaning up our garden. Veggies have been planted. Trying to get myself settled in because I found out I will be staying in New York indefinitely. Sometimes relationships end when you least expect them to. But I will be ok and have alot to keep me busy with. ALOT lol.