Using the Database Tutorials

These videos are intended to help new users become comfortable with the member database more quickly. They are not intended to document all  database features, but should help explain enough to make your experience  enjoyable.

Existing users may find some neat features that they did not know about too!

(Click on the link to get to the tutorial, then the full screen icon     
then start the video
"Escape" key takes you out of full screen mode)

• Logging on to the database

• Changing Database Information

• Simple People Searches

• Interpreting the Person Page
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  Following links to other people

• More information you might find on a person page
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  Relationship views (Family / Ancestors / Descendants / Timeline)

• Maps / Places

• Relationship Calculator

• Advanced Searching

Here are some tutorials about specific activities that may be of interest to you. (Click on the text link below)

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• Recovering lost UserIDs and Passwords!
   

• Finding your living cousins in Iceland and North America

  • short version

  • more detailed version
     

• Interesting / famous people and your relationship to them
   

• Finding people with biographies and obituaries (And putting this information on your ancestors page)

• ​What's in a name? Icelandic & North American Names, Nick Names, etc

• Mapping ancestors locations from generation to  the next

We are working on some more! (Not available just yet)

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• Emigration ships and Passenger lists... coming soon

• Ancestors Timelines