For over a year, regular users at FamilySearch.org have been participating in a grand experiment.  A powerful new full-text search experience has already helped testers make genealogy discoveries and breakthroughs in their family history research.

While it is still undergoing further improvements in FamilySearch Labs, full-text search is now also available in the all-collections search on the signed-in FamilySearch home page and in the FamilySearch Catalog.

Watch for the new icon at right. The new document icon is a link to the FamilySearch.org/labs full-text search for that particular collection.

A FamilySearch blog posting earlier this month provides comprehensive guidance about using this amazing tool. 

Have you tried full-text search and found something valuable? Please share details by emailing us at blog@irishgenealogical.org.