If you start searching for names on the familysearch.org website, you might be surprised to learn that you're only. Searching about. 20% of the records available. In addition, if you do a comprehensive search for records on the Familysearch.org catalog you are only adding another approximately 20% of the records. So, where are the additional 60% of the records available on the website?
This huge collection of records from countries around the world is not exactly hidden but it is relatively unknown. Billions of records that are not in the catalog and have no indexes, so they are not searchable by name and will not appear in a catalog search. These unknown digi†al records are located in the "Images" section of the website. The video linked above talks about all the records on the FamilySearch.org website including those in the Images section. If you are in a hurry and don't want to spend the time to listen to me for almost an hour, you can see a similar, but much shorter video by my wife, Ann Tanner. Here is the link to her video.
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