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Relative Finder & Other Neat Programs By Bob Heck, MPAFUG, August 2019

1. Free Apps at BYU for Genealogists ? Relative Finder ? Virtual Pedigree: ? Descendancy Explorer ? Tree Sweeper ? Pedigree Pie ? One Page Genealogy ? Family Calendar ? Veteran Finder ? Geneopardy ? Wheel of Family Fortune ? Ancestor Games ? Record Quest

2. BYU Family History Lab ? ? You need to have your data on the web site and be registered in order to take full advantage of these Apps. ? NOTE: should NOT be your primary database.

3. Welcome to BYU Family History Technology Lab

4. Free Programs under RESEARCH ? Relative Finder: How are you related to famous people? ? Virtual Pedigree: Allows you to navigate your family tree with a new and revolutionary fluid interface. ? Descendancy Explorer: For members of the LDS church. ? Tree Sweeper: Will help you find unlikely or erroneous parts of your tree and will help you to fix them.

5. Free Programs under VISUALIZE ? Pedigree Pie: Shows your international heritage in a single easy-to-read chart. ? One Page Genealogy: View up to 20 generations of ascendancy or descendancy on one page. ? Family Calendar: Creates a custom calendar with all of the important events from your family history. ? Veteran Finder: Used to find your ancestors who served in World War I.

6. Free Programs under PLAY

? Geneopardy: The game that tests your knowledge of your family tree. ? Wheel of Family Fortune: The classic party game that tests how well you know your ancestor's names. ? Ancestor Games: Uses information from your tree to create personalized crossword puzzles, word searches, coloring pages, and more. ? Record Quest: An engaging adventure game designed to teach kids family history research skills.

7. Relative Finder ? Ever wonder if you've got some long-lost cousins out there? ? Relative Finder allows you to see how you are related to historical figures, and more!

8. Sign in to Family Search

9. Select a Group of Interest

10. Or Select More Groups

11. Bob Heck is Related to 28 Presidents of the United States

12. Bob Heck & FDR are 8th Cousins 2 X Removed

13. Zoom in to see the detail

14. See Hundreds of More Groups:

15. Wisconsin German Immigrants

16. Virtual Pedigree ? Virtual Pedigree: Allows you to navigate your family tree with a new and revolutionary fluid interface. ? You can expand or contract the Pedigree chart. ? Click on a person and you will instantly have details.

17. Virtual Pedigree

18. Just click and drag to expand or contract

19. One click away from Research Hints on FamilySearch

20. Research Hint on Phineas Chase Sr.

21. Descendancy Explorer ? Members of the LDS church can use their FamilySearch account to find names of their ancestors that are ready to take to the temple. Simply log in and let Descendancy Explorer find the names for you.

22. Tree Sweeper ? Have you ever found that a particular ancestor was born before their parents? Tree Sweeper will help you to find unlikely or erroneous parts of your tree and will help you to fix them.

23. Catharina Juncker Died before being Born.

24. Pedigree Pie ? 25% American. 75% Irish. 100% You. Pedigree Pie shows your international heritage in a single easy-to-read chart. Click on the chart to view details about where and when your ancestors lived, and to trace back your family's path through history!

25. Cheryl Ann Heck's Pedigree Pie

26. One Page Genealogy ? One Page Genealogy is the place for you to view, customize, and download your family tree all in one page! View up to 20 generations of ascendancy or descendancy. Change colors and tree styles. Download and print to show your family and friends!

27. Make a huge chart for printing at a print shop.

28. Family Calendar ? Your family history is made of up important events like births, deaths, immigrations and more. Family Calendar makes it easy to create a custom calendar with all of the important events from your family history. Your calendar can then be exported to Google or Apple Calendar.

29. An 8 Generation Event Calendar

30. Click mouse on dot to show event.

31. Veteran Finder ? Made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the World War 1 armistice, Vet Finder uses handwriting recognition software to find your ancestors who served in World War 1.

? The system uses the 1930 US Census to find a veteran.

32. Wilfred and Archie LaBerge WWI, from Ladysmith, Wisconsin

33. Under PLAY: Geneopardy ? What is the game that tests your knowledge of your family tree? Geneopardy! (like Jeopardy) If you think you know your family tree, try out this fun game and prove your knowledge to your friends and family. Enjoy hours of entertainment in Family Home Evenings, at family reunions or just on your own.

34. Log in to FamilySearch

35. Dates for 100 36. Wrong Answer & Right Answer 37. Places 100 38. People 500 39. Facts 300 40. Other 400 41. Geneopardy will even keep score.

42. Wheel of Family Fortune ? The classic party game that tests how well you know your ancestor's names. ? It pays to know your family history. Play alone, or add other players to create a fun game for the whole family! Wheel of Family Fortune

43. Cheryl Won!!!

44. Ancestor Games ? Uses information from your tree to create Personalized Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, Word Scramble, Coloring Pages, and Matching Game

45. Ancestor Word Search 46. Ancestor Crossword Puzzle 47. Ancestor Word Scramble 48. Ancestor Matching Game 49. Ancestor Coloring Book

50. Record Quest ? An engaging adventure game designed to teach kids family history research skills. ? Do you want to learn how to do family history in a fun and interactive way? Next time your kids want to play a video game, give them something

engaging that will also teach them valuable research skills.

51. Record Quest Adventure Game

52. ? Here is one more, great App that can be a big help in understanding your research. ? It's called PUZZILLA and it is free and works with your FamilySearch data.

53. My Ancestors for six generations 54. My Ancestors for 12 generations 55. Peter McNulty Descendants 56. Here is a descendant's chart on my Burgess family

57. Any Questions?

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