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    1. [BKLYN] How to find TONS of data at familysearch.org
    2. Joyce Presnall via
    3. I hope this helps many folks out as familysearch,org is a fantastic resource that I have only recently begun to tap into. Finding WHERE the info is located can be difficult but I learned a trick on a video I watched about a year ago. GOOGLE for almost any topic you can imagine, if you google the term with the words familysearch.org AT THE END OF YOUR SEARCH TERM you will get many hits. Usually what you are looking for is in the first few hits. YOU MUST ALREADY BE SIGNED INTO THE FAMILYSEARCH SITE BEFORE THE LINKS YOU GET WILL WORK DO NOT USE QUOTES IN YOUR GOOGLE SEARCH If you are looking for info about Queens County as an example google the terms Queens County, New York, familysearch.org If you are looking for death records anywhere in New York State google Death records New York State familysearch.org (doing that brought me to ALL vitals--birth marriage and death) https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/New_York_Vital_Records Use it to google town names that you need more info on and need local resources. ALWAYS google the town, county and state you are looking for in the same way, making sure terms familysearch,org are at the end of your search terms OR you will get an error message. You are going to be amazed at the info you will find. Here are a few handy ones chart with probate links all over the state https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/New_York_Probate_Records Link for CHART of ALL Federal and NY State Census' tells you exactly where NY State Census' were done--not ALL counties have NY State Census--Westchester is one that was skipped for many years (or destroyed) https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/New_York_Census Here is a page with tips on browsing Fulton Postcards https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Old_Fulton_NY_Post_Cards HERE is a link for a list of ALL of their Collections BUT looking that through can be a bit tedious so always try to "zero in" on what you are searching for first. https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list Many of the county and state links also have addresses for people to write to for information such as clerks offices, courts etc. There is tons of info on that site, and I hope this trick will help you find what you are looking for. I am going out of town soon, so if you see someone looking for the WORD doc and I have sent it to you, please be kind enough to send it to them. Please feel free AS ALWAYS to share anything I post to other lists In fact I encourage you to PLEASE share this info with other lists. The more we all know about where to find info the more successful we will be. We should ALL be helping one another with how to find information, especially when that info is free. There are many things you need in genealogy that DO cost $...you cannot get around some of those, so DO take advantage of free info. Have a great day Joyce -- Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, Norton, Gerard, and many more...

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