More on the FamilySearch catalog

As a follow up to the last post about searching the Catalog at the FamilySearch website, here are a couple more tips.

• If you are doing a location search, enter the place name in Country,State,County format. For example, search for United States, Ohio, Medina then click the search button. You should get a long list of every collection they have on Medina County.
• If you are already logged in to your FamilySearch account, you can open the Catalog to search without leaving the main part of the website. To do this, click on Search, then Right-click on the Catalog link and then click on Open in a new Tab on the menu that will display. You can then go back and forth between the Catalog and the indexed records.
• I have had a hard time finding the link to search for a nearby Family History Center. The best way I have found is at the bottom of the main page, click on the link for Site Map. When the lists display, the link to the Family History Centers is in the Get Help list.

Good luck with your searches! Remember, the Historian General wants to see images of the original record, not an index.