Archive guide · World
FamilySearch (partner review pending)
connected, not yet live
What it holds
Billions of historical records and the shared Family Tree — via hint → link-out only, per partner terms
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- FamilySearch International
- Licence for use here
- FamilySearch partner terms: display title + confidence, link out, no storage beyond session
- Attribution
- FamilySearch Compatible logo + persistent record link
- Cost to search
- free API; programme fee [?]
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://developers.familysearch.org/
Status: owner applies at familysearch.org/innovate/apply; needs FS_CLIENT_ID. Until it is live, Provara tells you when this archive is where to look and you bring the record in yourself.
How to search it in Provara
- Birth, marriage and death records: ask Provara for a birth, marriage or death by name, place and year.
- Census returns: ask Provara where a family was living in a given census year.
- Church books: ask Provara for a baptism or parish marriage.
- Shared family trees: ask Provara to treat a shared-tree hint as a lead to verify against a record.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Birth, marriage and death records — Civil registration and church registers: the dates and parents that anchor every generation.
- Census returns — A household on one day: names, ages, birthplaces, occupations and relationships to the head. The backbone of placing a family in a decade.
- Church books — Baptisms, marriages and burials kept by parishes, often the only record before the state began counting.
- Shared family trees — Collaborative trees compiled by other researchers. Useful for leads, never for facts: a tree is a claim, not a record.
No card needed. Build and source your tree free; search these archives free; the assistant's research runs on tokens.
Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.