For more than 125 years, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been gathering, preserving and sharing genealogical information worldwide. Through the website www.familysearch.org, researchers all over the world have free access to billions of records. This presentation will help the attendees find the records of their Jewish ancestors within the records of FamilySearch.

W. Todd Knowles is a Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer at FamilySearch, where he has worked for over 25 years. His own journey in family history, began at an early age, searching for his great grandfather, a Polish Jew. From those early beginnings, the Knowles collection was created. The Knowles Collection is comprised of 6 databases that contain the genealogical records of 1.5 million Jews. The collection is available at FamilySearch.org. Todd is the past president of the Utah Jewish Genealogical Society (UJGS) and also serves as a trustee of the International Society of British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH).