Instructor: Brent Ruggles is a volunteer at the Center for African American History, Art, and Culture Genealogy Lab. He has been working with familysearch.org for a number of years and has specialized in helping others research their family tree with familysearch.org. Description: Containing information about more than 11.5 billion people, familysearch.org has the largest collection of family history information in the world. This system is free to the public and offers free access from any computer connected to the Internet. Sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, familysearch.org has over 150 million users. The data in familysearch.org is stored in 5 separate data centers across the country to ensure safety of the data. This course will teach how to build a login, add your immediate family history, and research your ancestors. New records are constantly digitized and indexed so that computers can read them. About 1 million records a day are indexed. Participants should bring a fully charged laptop computer to each class and have an email address to validate their new familysearch.org account. Tablets and Cell Phones don’t work well.