-----Weekly Newsletter-----                                            28 January, 2015 - Vol 16, Issue 4
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Announcements
Youth and Family History
Questions/Answers
Favorite Websites
Family History Consultants
Bulletin Thought
Remember...
Upcoming Classes
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Announcements
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. 
 

 


 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

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

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.

 

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.

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" 


Remember...

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.
  

 

Upcoming Classes

Logan FamilySearch Library Class Schedule

Winter Term

Register online at loganfsl.org or call (435) 755-5594 

 

 

DateTitleTeacher# wksTime
Thu, Jan 29Family Tree (taught in Spanish)Joe / Martha Thurston1 wk7 pm
Fri, Jan 30Ancestry.comDedee Dalebout2 wks10 am
Mon, Feb 2Indexing I - Beginning IndexingVon Taylor1 wk10 am
Mon, Feb 2Indexing ArbitrationVon Taylor1 wk3 pm
Tue, Feb 3Photos in Family Tree MemoriesBilly / Sherrie Jones1 wk7 pm
Wed, Feb 4Introduction to Online Swedish RecordsIrene Burton1 wk10 am
Thu, Feb 5Computer BasicsStacie Gomm1 wk5 pm
Thu, Feb 5Family History ResearchBob Curry1 wk7 pm
Fri, Feb 6Family History Consultant WorkshopWade Nicholas1 wk1-4 pm
Mon, Feb 9Indexing II - Beyond the BasicsVon Taylor1 wk10 am
Mon, Feb 9"My Family-Stories that Bring Us Together" BookletBilly / Sherrie Jones1 wk1 pm
Mon, Feb 9Search and Source in Family tree - BeginnerJohn Burton1 wk3 pm
Tue, Feb 10BSA Genealogy WorkshopIrene Burton1 wk7 pm
Wed, Feb 11Learn How to Merge Records in Family TreeWade Nicholas1 wk5 pm
Tue, Feb 17Young Women Family History WorkshopLinda Clark1 wk7 pm
Wed, Feb 18Using Facebook in Family History ResearchJohn Burton1 wk10 am
Wed, Feb 18Photos in Family Tree MemoriesBilly / Sherrie Jones1 wk7 pm
Thu, Feb 19Personal History PreparationMartin Peterson1 wk5 pm
Thu, Feb 19Family Tree (taught in Spanish)Joe / Martha Thurston1 wk7 pm
Fri, Feb 20FamilySearchLynn Miller6 wks10 am
Fri, Feb 20Family History Consultant WorkshopDedee Dalebout1 wk1-4 pm
Sat, Feb 21BSA Genealogy WorkshopIrene Burton1 wk10 am
Sat, Feb 21Why You Need a Program in Addition to Family TreeGale Bartholomew1 wk1 pm
Mon, Feb 23Indexing ObituariesVon Taylor1 wk10 am
Mon, Feb 23Introduction to Online Danish RecordsIrene Burton1 wk1 pm
Mon, Feb 23LegacyYvonne Curry4 wks3 pm
Thu, Feb 26Mobile Apps-FS Tree, FS MemoriesStacie Gomm1 wk5 pm
Thu, Feb 26Family History Consultant WorkshopWade Nicholas1 wk6-9 pm
Mon, Mar 2Find My PastBob Curry1 wk10 am
Tue, Mar 3Introduction to Online Swedish RecordsIrene Burton1 wk10 am
Tue, Mar 3Family Tree (taught in Spanish)Joe / Martha Thurston1 wk7 pm
Wed, Mar 4Fun Ways to Find, Write and Use Stories of Your FamilyMary Anderson1 wk1 pm
Wed, Mar 4Family Tree SourcesWade Nichiolas1 wk5 pm
Wed, Mar 4Ancestry.comDedee Dalebout2 wks7 pm
Thu, Mar 5FamilySearchBob Curry2 wks7 pm
Fri, Mar 6Family History Consultant WorkshopWade Nicholas1 wk1-4 pm
Sat, Mar 7Descendancy ResearchDedee Dalebout1 wk1 pm
Mon, Mar 9Indexing I - Beginning IndexingVon Taylor1 wk1 pm
Tue, Mar 10How to Write Your Personal HistoryJohn Clark1 wk5 pm
Tue, Mar 10BSA Genealogy WorkshopIrene Burton1 wk7 pm
Thu, Mar 12"My Family-Stories that Bring Us Together" BookletBilly/Sherrie Jones1 wk1 pm
Sat, Mar 14Learn How to Merge Records in Family TreeWade Nicholas1 wk1 pm
Mon, Mar 16Indexing II - Beyond the BasicsVon Taylor1 wk1 pm
Tue, Mar 17Young Women Family History WorkshopLinda Clark1 wk7 pm
Wed, Mar 18Photo EnhancementBurnis Skinner2 wks10 am
Thu, Mar 19Computer BasicsStacie Gomm1 wk5 pm
Thu, Mar 19Family Tree (taught in Spanish)Joe / Martha Thurston1 wk7 pm
Fri, Mar 20Family History Consultant WorkshopDedee Dalebout1 wk1-4 pm
Sat, Mar 21BSA Genealogy WorkshopIrene Burton1 wk10 am
Sat, Mar 21Why You Need a Program in Addition to Family TreeGale Bartholomew1 wk1 pm
Mon, Mar 23Family History ResearchBob Curry1 wk10 am
Mon, Mar 23Are You Climbing the Wrong Tree?John Burton2 wk1 pm
Mon, Mar 23Indexing ArbitrationVon Taylor1 wk3 pm
Tue, Mar 24Introduction to Online Danish RecordsIrene Burton1 wk1 pm
Wed, Mar 25Descendancy ResearchDedee Dalebout1 wk5 pm
Wed, Mar 25Learn How to Merge Records in Family TreeWade Nicholas1 wk7 pm
Thu, Mar 26Family History Research MethodsMartin Peterson1 wk5 pm
Thu, Mar 26Family History Consultant WorkshopWade Nicholas1 wk6-9 pm
Mon, Mar 30Indexing ObituariesVon Taylor1 wk10 am
Mon, Mar 30My HeritageYvonne Curry1 wk3 pm

 

Sincerely,

 

Billy K. Jones
Director of Training
Logan Utah FamilySearch Library

Phone: (435) 755-5594

 


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