Navigating new.familysearch.org

New.familysearch.org is the web site members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints use to prepare family names to perform ordinance work in our halela'a/temple on behalf of our ancestors so they can be eternal families.

To set up an account, members just need their membership record number which can be obtained from the ward clerk, or which is also found on ordinance paperwork, and an email account. (A blessing when you've forgotten your username or password.)

(Not to confuse new.familysearch.org with www.familysearch.org.. The latter is a free database of genealogical records and pedigrees which can be accessed by anyone.)

Before we add ancestors into the new.familysearch.org database, it's important to use the 'Search' tab to make sure they have not already been entered. (I spend a good amount of time clearing up duplicate entries on my ancestral lines- largely a result of dedicated family members before the era of new.familysearch.org who were all working independently on our ancestral lines...This site now allows us to see what already has been done so we can focus our attention on ancestors who are missing.)

Today our Family History class started navigating through the new.familysearch site, getting used to the layout. 

I am really excited for the class to get more comfortable with the site, especially since many people have already been heavily involved in researching their ancestors.

I love learning more about our class member's through their family stories. They all have such strong impressions and aloha regarding their families and this work. It has been a huge blessing for me to learn from them and their backgrounds.

Papakilo

Papakilo is a very useful resourceful when looking for your ancestors in Hawai'i. Register for free and get started!

I am extremely excited for summer 2012 when Office of Hawaiian Affairs 's Papakilo in partnership with the Hawai'i State Archives will add:

• Vital Statistics Collections: Marriage, Birth, Death, School Teacher Records from 1826- 1929
• World War I Service Records

In the meantime, these are the other records they have posted online. MAHALO NO!

Sourcing the Poole Line

One of my great grandmother's was Martha Kamaka Lua'ehu. Her parents were John Liona Lua'ehu, or Joseph/ John Pauahi Lua'ehu and Annie Elizabeth Poole....
I am trying to source Annie's line. I found some naturalization records for a Benjamin E. Poole and William Poole on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Papakilo database. Annie's father is listed in new.familysearch as being one Benjamin E. Poole. However, something that corroborate more than just names within time periods but rather RELATIONS is needed. A census record showing Annie as the child of Benjamin would be an example, or her birth certificate....
Some of the data put into new.familysearch on this line appears to only corroborate names within a time period. For example, Benjamin E. Poole is listed as having a birth year of 1824 in Hollis, New Hampshire. When I look for records for someone with this name & data, I do find a match BUT I also find that this person died in New England, when our ancestor supposedly died in Hawai'i...unless they went back to New England....?...

I will continue looking...