Go to the FamilySearch Catalog. Click Places to close the Places Search. Click Surnames to open it. Type a surname. Click Search. Click a title to see more details. The record may be a book, a microfilm, or digitized on the Internet.

Once you have entered the information you know, click Find to search for your ancestor’s profile in Family Tree. When the search results appear, click a name to see a summary of that person’s information. Then click on the name in the pop-up window to navigate to the person’s full person page.

you can find anyone in the database using the FIND screen https://www.familysearch.org/tree/find/name