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Announcements
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Family History Consultant Workshop
There is an ongoing Family History Consultant Workshop Friday afternoons from 1:00 - 4:30 pm, twice each month in the classroom at our library conducted by Dedee Dalebout and Wade Nicholas. Come learn more about RootsMagic, FamilySearch, Family Tree, etc. Ask questions and get individual help. The next meeting is February 6.
RootsMagic User Group
The RootsMagic User Group meets the first Monday of each month at 1:00 p.m. in the library's classroom. Everyone is invited. No charge. Suggestions for topics you would like to see discussed should be emailed to the newsletter. Next meeting will be Monday, Feb 2 at 1:00 p.m. Sister Curry conducts these sessions.
Legacy User Group
The Legacy User Group meets the first Thursday of each month at 1:00 p.m. in the library's classroom. Everyone is invited. No charge. Suggestions for topics you would like to see discussed should be emailed to the newsletter. Next meeting will be Thursday, Feb 5, at 1:00 p.m. Sister Burton is in charge of this group.
Ancestral Quest Users Group
Our Ancestral Quest Users Group, conducted by Robert Gerber is held
the first Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome to attend, free of charge. The next session will be conducted Tuesday, February 3 at 1:00 pm in the main Library classroom. If you have suggestions for topics to be discussed please email them to the newsletter.
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Youth and Family History |
Be the First on the Dance Floor
David Dickson
Set trends and make friends. After all, the world could use a little more of your positive influence. Plowing headlong onto an empty dance floor is only one small example of how we can use our agency to lead out in positive activities. If dancing isn't your thing, don't worry. The ways we can influence others and be a force for good are truly endless. No matter what uplifting and exciting efforts you decide to pursue, it's usually a lot more rewarding to participate than it is to watch from the sidelines. Read the entire article here.
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Help Desk |
Sign in to with clicked on for Two weeks - Kicked off next day
What is going on now? I had to sign in every day despite the fact I clicked on to stay in 2 weeks, last few days now.
FamilySearch has a few comments regarding this problem:
If you login to other FamilySearch sites like sandbox or beta this will invalidate your previous login.
The problem may be in the Internet Explorer 10 and 11. Chrome seems to be more stable.
Internet Explorer 11 - the sign in feature is associated with cookies stored on you machine. if they are not saved it will require another sign-on.
Go to Internet Options, Privacy, Sites, & then set familysearch.org to Always Allow. That may keep cookies from being the problem
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Favorite Websites |
7 Easy Steps to Use Photos to Research Your Family History
Stories captured in old photographs can be the key to getting your relatives to share their memories with each other. To help you build your family tree in 2015, we collaborated with Rachel LaCour to develop seven easy steps for using photos to start researching your family history. Interested - click here to see how to spark memories for your relatives, help you get to know the people behind the names in your family tree, and see engaging ways to learn more about your family history.
Here's How to Find Cousin's Names to Submit for Temple Work
With the new "descendancy view" it is easier than ever to find relatives that need to have their temple work done. Watch this video to see how you can begin to find names of cousins to submit for temple work. Please pay attention to the part when he tells us "to verify their information is accurate and their temple work has not been done" before you finalize a temple request.
Are Your Ancestors the Average of 5 Records?
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." ~~Jim Rohn
What about our perception of our ancestors? What shapes that "sense of identity" that we form about them? Since we can't speak directly to most of them, we have to rely on the records they left behind.
The question we need to consider is "What records are we surrounding them with?" Click here to learn more.
Beware of working on duplicates in FamilySearch Family Tree
This post deals with a situation limited to those who have legacy or gateway individuals in their ancestry. If your ancestry includes people who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsbetween 1830 and 1900, you may very well encounter this type of challenge. If your family has more recent membership or none at all, you will not likely see any of these problems. Some of the entries in the FamilySearch.org Family Tree have duplicates that cannot be merged at this time. These entries are usually those who are classified as Individuals of Unusual Size (IOUSs). Click this link to read all of James Tanners Blog post.
The Best Way to Find EVERY Historic Newspaper in America
Got your attention didn't I - all you genealogy researchers of old newspapers! The fact is that all old newspapers ever published in the United States are not online. there are approximately 1,600 online titles and there have been over 150,000 titles ever published in the U.S. The Library of Congress has helped us out with the US Newspaper Directory from 1690 - Present This directory provides not just multiple ways to find newspapers published, but tons of facts about those newspapers. Learn more of this valuable resource by clicking here.
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Family History Consultants |
New Consultant Training - Classroom
There is a lot to learn with family history and temple work. This training was designed to give new consultants enough to get started, but to not overwhelm them. After going through the experience of finding and taking a name to the temple, and getting started in helping others, they can then decide what else they would like to learn. You can download the class outline, videos, and handouts. Go to this link: https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history/family-history-consultants-classroom-training?lang=eng and take this six lesson course.
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Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought |
Our Ancestors Are Deeply Interested
Robert Millet told about Joseph F. Smith's remarkable address in 1916. "He spoke about the nearness of the world of spirits, and of the interest and concern the spirits have for us and our labors. He stressed that those who labored so diligently in their mortal estate...would not be denied the privilege of "looking down upon the results of their own labors" from their post-mortal estate. He said, "they are as deeply interested in our welfare today, if not with greater capacity, with far more interest behind the veil, than they were in the flesh. ... Sometimes the Lord expands our vision from this point of view and this side of the veil, that we feel and seem to realize that we can look beyond the thin veil which separates us from that other sphere. ... And so it is that [this] work...goes forward on both sides of the veil." Robert L. Millet, "Beyond the Veil"
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Remember...
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A Violin With Three Strings
Jack Riemer
On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.
If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches. To see him walk across the stage one step at a time, painfully and slowly, is an awesome sight.
He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair. Then he sits down, slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and proceeds to play.
By now, the audience is used to this ritual. They sit quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair. They remain reverently silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs. They wait until he is ready to play.
But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it snap - it went off like gunfire across the room. There was no mistaking what that sound meant. There was no mistaking what he had to do.
We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage - to either find another violin or else find another string for this one. But he didn't. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again.
The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before.
Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. You could see him modulating, changing, re-composing the piece in his head. At one point, it sounded like he was de-tuning the strings to get new sounds from them that they had never made before. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. We were all on our feet, screaming and cheering, doing everything we could to show how much we appreciated what he had done.He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quiet us, and then he said - not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone - "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left."
What a powerful line that is. It has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life - not just for artists but for all of us.
Here is a man who has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, who, all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, finds himself with only three strings; so he makes music with three strings, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more beautiful, more sacred, more memorable, than any that he had ever made before, when he had four strings.
So, perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
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Upcoming Classes
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Logan FamilySearch Library Class Schedule
Winter Term
Register online at loganfsl.org or call (435) 755-5594
Date | Title | Teacher | # wks | Time | Thu, Jan 29 | Family Tree (taught in Spanish) | Joe / Martha Thurston | 1 wk | 7 pm | Fri, Jan 30 | Ancestry.com | Dedee Dalebout | 2 wks | 10 am | Mon, Feb 2 | Indexing I - Beginning Indexing | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | Mon, Feb 2 | Indexing Arbitration | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 3 pm | Tue, Feb 3 | Photos in Family Tree Memories | Billy / Sherrie Jones | 1 wk | 7 pm | Wed, Feb 4 | Introduction to Online Swedish Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 10 am | Thu, Feb 5 | Computer Basics | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 5 pm | Thu, Feb 5 | Family History Research | Bob Curry | 1 wk | 7 pm | Fri, Feb 6 | Family History Consultant Workshop | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | Mon, Feb 9 | Indexing II - Beyond the Basics | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | Mon, Feb 9 | "My Family-Stories that Bring Us Together" Booklet | Billy / Sherrie Jones | 1 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Feb 9 | Search and Source in Family tree - Beginner | John Burton | 1 wk | 3 pm | Tue, Feb 10 | BSA Genealogy Workshop | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 7 pm | Wed, Feb 11 | Learn How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 5 pm | Tue, Feb 17 | Young Women Family History Workshop | Linda Clark | 1 wk | 7 pm | Wed, Feb 18 | Using Facebook in Family History Research | John Burton | 1 wk | 10 am | Wed, Feb 18 | Photos in Family Tree Memories | Billy / Sherrie Jones | 1 wk | 7 pm | | | | | | Thu, Feb 19 | Personal History Preparation | Martin Peterson | 1 wk | 5 pm | Thu, Feb 19 | Family Tree (taught in Spanish) | Joe / Martha Thurston | 1 wk | 7 pm | Fri, Feb 20 | FamilySearch | Lynn Miller | 6 wks | 10 am | Fri, Feb 20 | Family History Consultant Workshop | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | Sat, Feb 21 | BSA Genealogy Workshop | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 10 am | Sat, Feb 21 | Why You Need a Program in Addition to Family Tree | Gale Bartholomew | 1 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Feb 23 | Indexing Obituaries | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | Mon, Feb 23 | Introduction to Online Danish Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Feb 23 | Legacy | Yvonne Curry | 4 wks | 3 pm | Thu, Feb 26 | Mobile Apps-FS Tree, FS Memories | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 5 pm | Thu, Feb 26 | Family History Consultant Workshop | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 6-9 pm | Mon, Mar 2 | Find My Past | Bob Curry | 1 wk | 10 am | Tue, Mar 3 | Introduction to Online Swedish Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 10 am | Tue, Mar 3 | Family Tree (taught in Spanish) | Joe / Martha Thurston | 1 wk | 7 pm | Wed, Mar 4 | Fun Ways to Find, Write and Use Stories of Your Family | Mary Anderson | 1 wk | 1 pm | Wed, Mar 4 | Family Tree Sources | Wade Nichiolas | 1 wk | 5 pm | Wed, Mar 4 | Ancestry.com | Dedee Dalebout | 2 wks | 7 pm | Thu, Mar 5 | FamilySearch | Bob Curry | 2 wks | 7 pm | Fri, Mar 6 | Family History Consultant Workshop | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | Sat, Mar 7 | Descendancy Research | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Mar 9 | Indexing I - Beginning Indexing | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | Tue, Mar 10 | How to Write Your Personal History | John Clark | 1 wk | 5 pm | Tue, Mar 10 | BSA Genealogy Workshop | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 7 pm | Thu, Mar 12 | "My Family-Stories that Bring Us Together" Booklet | Billy/Sherrie Jones | 1 wk | 1 pm | Sat, Mar 14 | Learn How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Mar 16 | Indexing II - Beyond the Basics | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | Tue, Mar 17 | Young Women Family History Workshop | Linda Clark | 1 wk | 7 pm | Wed, Mar 18 | Photo Enhancement | Burnis Skinner | 2 wks | 10 am | Thu, Mar 19 | Computer Basics | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 5 pm | Thu, Mar 19 | Family Tree (taught in Spanish) | Joe / Martha Thurston | 1 wk | 7 pm | Fri, Mar 20 | Family History Consultant Workshop | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | Sat, Mar 21 | BSA Genealogy Workshop | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 10 am | Sat, Mar 21 | Why You Need a Program in Addition to Family Tree | Gale Bartholomew | 1 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Mar 23 | Family History Research | Bob Curry | 1 wk | 10 am | Mon, Mar 23 | Are You Climbing the Wrong Tree? | John Burton | 2 wk | 1 pm | Mon, Mar 23 | Indexing Arbitration | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 3 pm | Tue, Mar 24 | Introduction to Online Danish Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | Wed, Mar 25 | Descendancy Research | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 5 pm | Wed, Mar 25 | Learn How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 7 pm | Thu, Mar 26 | Family History Research Methods | Martin Peterson | 1 wk | 5 pm | Thu, Mar 26 | Family History Consultant Workshop | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 6-9 pm | Mon, Mar 30 | Indexing Obituaries | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | Mon, Mar 30 | My Heritage | Yvonne Curry | 1 wk | 3 pm |
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Billy K. Jones
Director of Training Logan Utah FamilySearch Library
Phone: (435) 755-5594 |
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