Burley FamilySearch Center
Community Projects
Ongoing community projects you can help with through the Burley FamilySearch Center.
We are so blessed to live in a great community. Founded and settled by many dedicated people. The Burley FamilySearch Center is undertaking some community projects to document the lives of persons who lived here. There are some unique unindexed databases in FamilySearch needing to be attached as sources. The center has partnered with the Cassia County Museum to digitize things contained in their collections. When we finish with Cassia Museum, we will be working with the Minidoka Museum. These include photos, negatives, slides, and oral histories. Other options will include obituaries and cemeteries of the area. We are open to partnering with other organizations. If you know of some group who would like to be a part of this community project, please contact the center.
There are three ways to help with these projects.
- Click on the links below to be taken to specific databases or albums created for these projects. NOTE: Be sure to have signed into FamilySearch prior to opening any of the databases or albums below.
- Projects by Dennis Yancey. He has two main projects. One group is attempting to collect all of the family bibles (and samplers) they can find. The other group is working with African American Artifacts. These are then uploaded to FamilySearch for volunteers to tag.
- Check out Cameron Briggs' website Community Linking about community projects for other options and ideas.
For help in attaching sources, check out Cameron Briggs' SourceLinker101.com website
Cassia Museum General Photos
Goal: 2026-12-31 •Difficulty: medium
There are sixteen binders of photos that will be digitized and uploaded to FamilySearch into the appropriate albums, with individuals tagged when possible.Read more...
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Cassia Museum Negative Collection
Goal: 2026-12-31 •Difficulty: medium
The purpose of this project is to identify all persons possible in each photos. The second step is to tag (attach) each photo or audio file to the person to whom it applies. This might include…Read more...
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Find A Grave
Goal: 2026-04-30 •Difficulty: easy
Review the lists of records and make sure all are attached to a person in the tree. Create a new person if one cannot be found in the tree already.Read more...
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Magic Valley WWII Clippings & Forms
Goal: 2026-05-31 •Difficulty: easy
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1880 Cassia Census Coverage
Goal: 2026-01-31 •Difficulty: easy
Review the lists of records and make sure all are attached to a person in the tree. Create a new person if one cannot be found in the tree already.Read more...
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1880 Alturas Census Coverage
Goal: 2026-02-28 •Difficulty: easy
Minidoka was part of Alturas Co in 1880. Review the lists of records and make sure all are attached to a person in the tree. Create a new person if one cannot be found in the…Read more...
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Numident
Finished. Thanks to everyone who helped with this project.
Obituaries of the Mini-Cassia Area
The currently uploaded ones have been assigned or completed. Watch for more in the future.
Oral Histories
Check back as more will be added as they are processed. Several oral histories were recorded in the 1970's for the Cassia County Historical Society Museum. As they are digitized, they will be uploaded to FamilySearch to the interviewee's page. Please feel free to listen to these histories and add in tags for anyone discussed in the history.