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. The data in familysearch.org is stored in five separate data centers across the country to ensure safety of the data. This class will teach how to build a login, how to add your immediate family history, and how to research your ancestors. New records are constantly digitized and indexed so that computers can read them. About one million records a day are indexed. Attendees should bring a fully charged laptop computer (tablets and cell phones do not work as well) and have an email address to validate a new familysearch.org account.