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Por Corrine Ardoin |

I was up late last night searching the Family Search Labs pilot website,
too! It's great! Not only in the 1930 census have I found ancestors, but
in typing in names to do a search on, I found information I have been
looking for without previous luck. It brought up baptism records, marriage
records, death records, Social Security death index, etc. even in the USA,
when I typed in a particular name. It even has some of the actual documents
themselves that you can see and print out. If you click on Save, it will
automatically download it to your computer and, presto, there it is ready to
be fixed up or you can just print it out. One thing I discovered, is that
when you resize them for emailing, so they aren't such big files, they get
real blurry. So, I don't resize them. I leave them huge and they are
actually better for reading even if you have to move the image around and
can't see the whole thing at once.
Corrine Ardoin
Santa Maria, California

I have also been looking at records from Aguascalientes using the new
FamilySearch Labs pilot website, and have a few comments to make. The "look
and feel" of the search engine is great. A huge leap ahead from the old
FamilySearch engine. However, I get a large number of duplicate records,
plus a high number of misspellings and blunt errors in the transcription.
Many are surnames, which is critical, plus the names of towns and ranchos
and a few other transcription errors also abound. I also get lots of
records from Campeche mixed with records from Aguascalientes. All errors are
apparently in the transcription of old manuscripts. I need to find out how
to report these errors. But the search engine is superb. Congratulations
to the software team that put it together !!!

Bill Figueroa

Corrine

What baptism, marriage and death records have you found? From what States in US, or any in Mexico? I did find several death records from the state of Texas in that Pilot site that I had been looking for for years, and when I would write, people would tell me they didn't exist. Now I have the info on their parents and birthplaces in Mexico. Because I could print out a copy of the original document, I could share them with my relatives that don't have computers. I haven't found any marriage or birth records, so I am wondering which states' records are available. I have a cousin in Santa Maria, Armando Marquez.

Thanks,

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: Corrine Ardoin
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Family Search Labs

I was up late last night searching the Family Search Labs pilot website,
too! It's great! Not only in the 1930 census have I found ancestors, but
in typing in names to do a search on, I found information I have been
looking for without previous luck. It brought up baptism records, marriage
records, death records, Social Security death index, etc. even in the USA,
when I typed in a particular name. It even has some of the actual documents
themselves that you can see and print out. If you click on Save, it will
automatically download it to your computer and, presto, there it is ready to
be fixed up or you can just print it out. One thing I discovered, is that
when you resize them for emailing, so they aren't such big files, they get
real blurry. So, I don't resize them. I leave them huge and they are
actually better for reading even if you have to move the image around and
can't see the whole thing at once.
Corrine Ardoin
Santa Maria, California

Tell me how to access the Family Search Labs pilot website. Is it accessible to all

Miggy
----- Original Message -----
From: Emilie Garcia
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Family Search Labs

Corrine

What baptism, marriage and death records have you found? From what States in US, or any in Mexico? I did find several death records from the state of Texas in that Pilot site that I had been looking for for years, and when I would write, people would tell me they didn't exist. Now I have the info on their parents and birthplaces in Mexico. Because I could print out a copy of the original document, I could share them with my relatives that don't have computers. I haven't found any marriage or birth records, so I am wondering which states' records are available. I have a cousin in Santa Maria, Armando Marquez.

Thanks,

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: Corrine Ardoin>
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Family Search Labs

I was up late last night searching the Family Search Labs pilot website,
too! It's great! Not only in the 1930 census have I found ancestors, but
in typing in names to do a search on, I found information I have been
looking for without previous luck. It brought up baptism records, marriage
records, death records, Social Security death index, etc. even in the USA,
when I typed in a particular name. It even has some of the actual documents
themselves that you can see and print out. If you click on Save, it will
automatically download it to your computer and, presto, there it is ready to
be fixed up or you can just print it out. One thing I discovered, is that
when you resize them for emailing, so they aren't such big files, they get
real blurry. So, I don't resize them. I leave them huge and they are
actually better for reading even if you have to move the image around and
can't see the whole thing at once.
Corrine Ardoin
Santa Maria, California

The Family Search Labs site address is: <
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch&gt;. A box comes up that you
can type in the person's name you are searching. It gives you choices as to
how exact you want the surname to be matched up. I found that if I click on
"Exact, close, and partial," I get the most number of records with the exact
same spelling of the surname. If I just click "Exact or close," I get much
less, maybe only a few. I don't know how that happens, but it did for me.
The baptism records I found were for Jalisco: San Diego parish in
Huejuquilla El Alto, Santa Maria de los Lagos parish in Lagos de Moreno and
Jesus parish in Guadalajara. Marriage records were for Guadalajara. But,
in my searches, a lot of other areas would come up for that surname,
Argentina, Texas, Chihuahua, well, I can't remember all of the places, but
some of the records I found, I had already found through research or on
Ancestry.com. The dates and names, all the info matches up the same as what
I've already found. They'll say whether or not a record also has an
original image available, but when I clicked on one, it told me it was not
available yet.

Despite the kinks, it is well worth the time to just check it out. I had no
idea where to go with my research in my Cabral family line, but when I found
the baptism records on this site for Huejuquilla El Alto, I was very
grateful to now have a direction to head. I knew my great-grandfather was
born in Lagos de Moreno, but I had no date to go by to order a film for the
parish there. Now I do, because they had his baptism record on the site. I
think they are doing a great job and.....it's free!

Corrine Ardoin
Santa Maria, California

Oh, I checked the site real quick and right when you come on to the site,
you can see listed all the areas they have records for, from all over the
world, census, military, vital records, etc.
Corrine

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