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Announcements
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The Logan FamilySearch Library will be closed Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3 for installation of new computers and server. We will also be closed Saturday, April 4 for General Conference. Normal operations will resume Monday, April 6 at 9:30 am.
Upcoming Stake Discovery Days
Smithfield South Stake Discovery Day
451 South 250 East
Smithfield, Utah
Saturday April 25 from 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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| Whats New in Family Search? | 
New Genealogies Search User Interface - Community Trees Available
FamilySearch has released a significant update to the Genealogies search form, search results and the person details page. https://familysearch.org/family-trees Search Form: * Now looks and functions similar to the historical records search form * Search button allows search all or 1 collection. * Has descriptions of the data collections in Genealogies Search Results: * Has filters that allow visualization of results only from selected collections Person Details Page: * Uses the new Family Tree landscape pedigree view * Has a new Find in submission feature in the top right * New left side data panel with all the data, sources & notes * Expandable submission description header bar Community Trees: This release also introduces a new collection of data called Community Trees. This is a collection of sourced genealogies from specific times and places that have been linked according to family lineages and relations. These trees have been built by skilled researchers using all available records from the place and time frame. Enjoy. -Robert Kehrer sr prod mgr, search familysearch
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| Help Desk | 
Question--Landscape View
I love the new landscape look. However, it only comes up on my Internet Explorer and not my Chrome browser. Can you tell me why.
Answer: It's being slowly rolled out into production. Its random if you get it or not.
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| Favorite Websites | 
Take Advantage of a Family Discovery Day
FamilySearch is sponsoring a series of local events called "Family Discovery Days." They are providing a turn-key package to Stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout the world to organize, publicize and conduct these local events. If you are involved in family history, you should be asking your Ward and Stake leaders if they are planning on conducting a Family Discovery Day in your area. go online at Family Discovery Day, Blessings for the Living and watch the videos and you will certainly see why this is an excellent idea.
Puzzilla Premium now on Family History Centers Portal
Free access to the Puzzilla.org Premium edition is now available for free on the Family History Center Portal. In a blog post from FamilySearch entitled, "Puzilla Premium Services Now on the FHC Portal" it was announced:
Family history centers now have free access to Puzilla Premium on the Family History Center Portal under Premium Family History Websites. Members with very full trees often struggle to find ancestors who are in need of temple work. Puzzilla Premium offers new tools to help members look at their ancestors' descendancy charts in new ways. Using the family history center portal, locate the link to Puzilla and click to enter their webpage. Once on the website, users must sign in with their FamilySearch account. In the control panel on the left, select which data request will be sent to the Family Tree. The button will change from gray to color.
This is the program that started the revolution in finding cousins on the FamilySearch.org Family Tree. Coupled with the Descendancy View on the Family Tree, these valuable utility programs add an extended level of analysis to the Family Tree giving users the ability to more efficiently find families that may have been overlooked in past research efforts. Click here to see some of the features.
How to Make Google Cache Pay Off in Your Genealogy Research
Google "crawls" the web constantly indexing websites. It also takes a snapshot of each page it examines and caches, or stores, the image as a backup. It's the behind-the-scenes information that Google uses to judge if a page is a good match for your search queries.
In the case of a website that no longer exists, the cache copy provides a snapshot of the website when it was still active. Practically every search result includes a Cached link.
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| Family History Consultants |  I have been called as a family history consultant.
How do I register to access online training and resources?
Family History Consultants can register online to access online training, get regular family history updates, and early access to new systems so they are prepared to help members. To learn how to register, go to:
https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history?lang=eng
Another way to find the registration page:
- Go to: LDS.org and sign in
- Click on Resources
- Click on Family History - Note: Page down here to the link for Family History Callings
- Register on the Stay Informed link and the Newsletter link
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| Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought | 
"Thousands of our faithful people seldom go to the temple, and of those who do go, most are not working on their own ancestral lines. They are not saving their own dead. They seem to believe they are fulfilling their responsibilities by merely attending the temple occasionally. This is simply not so. We all must learn to save our own dead. We must properly identify them so that we can then perform the work for them in the temples ..."
Spencer W. Kimball, Regional Representatives Seminar
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Remember...
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lipstick in school
Author Unknown
According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem.
A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick, they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night the maintenance man would remove the lip prints, and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers... and then there are educators.
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Upcoming Classes
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Logan FamilySearch Library Class Schedule
Register online at loganfsl.org or call (435) 755-5594
| 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 | | Wed, Apr 1 | Roots Magic | Dave Winkler | 3 wks | 10 am | | Wed, Apr 1 | Hints and Sources | Dave Winkler | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Wed, Apr 1 | Organizing Your Family History Records | Arlene Miller | 2 wks | 5 pm | | Wed, Apr 1 | Reading Gothic Script | Collette Howard | 4 wks | 7 pm | | Thu, Apr 2 | Legacy Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Fri, Apr 3 | Family History Consultant Workshop (No Reg. Needed) | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | | Mon, Apr 6 | Indexing I--Beginning Indexing | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | | Mon, Apr 6 | Roots Magic Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Yvonne Curry | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, Apr 6 | FamilySearch | Robert Curry | 2 wks | 3 pm | | Tue, Apr 7 | Ancestral Quest Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Robert Gerber | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Tue, Apr 7 | Introduction to Swedish Websites | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Thu, Apr 9 | Mobile Apps--FS Tree, FS Memories | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Fri, Apr 10 | Ancestry.com | Dedee Dalebout | 2 wks | 10:00 AM | | Sat, Apr 11 | How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Gail Bartholomew | 1 wk | 10 am | | Sat, Apr 11 | FamilySearch: Introduction and Overview--Beginner | John Burton | 1 wk | 1:00 PM | | Mon, Apr 13 | Indexing II--Beyond the Basics | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | | Mon, Apr 13 | My Heritage | Yvonne Curry | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Tue, Apr 14 | Ancestral Quest | Robert Gerber | 5 wks | 10 am | | Tue, Apr 14 | A Closer Look At Swedish Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Tue, Apr 14 | Family Tree Sources | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Thu, Apr 16 | Family History Research | Robert Curry | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Fri, Apr 17 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | | Mon, Apr 20 | Legacy | Yvonne Curry | 4 wks | 10 am | | Mon, Apr 20 | Indexing Obituaries | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, Apr 20 | Cloud Storage--How It Can Help | Dave Winkler | 1 wk | 3 pm | | Tue, Apr 21 | How to Write Your Personal History | John Clark | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Tue, Apr 21 | Young Women Family History Workshop | Linda Clark | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Wed, Apr 22 | Photo Enhancement | Burnis Skinner | 2 wks | 10 am | | Wed, Apr 22 | Introduction to Danish Online Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1:00 PM | | Wed, Apr 22 | You Can Find Cousins Using Puzzilla | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Thu, Apr 23 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 6-9 pm | | Fri, Apr 24 | Intermediate FamilySearch | Lynn Miller | 6 wks | 10:00 AM | | Sat, Apr 25 | Probate and Family History | Gail Bartholomew | 2 wks | 1 pm | | Mon, Apr 27 | Indexing Arbitration | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, Apr 27 | Find My Past | Robert Curry | 1 wk | 3 pm | | Wed, Apr 29 | Family Tree (Taught in Spanish) | Joe/Martha Thurston | 1 wk | 7:00 PM | | Thu, Apr 30 | Family Tree | Robert Curry | 5 wks | 5 pm | | Fri, May 1 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | | Mon, May 4 | Roots Magic Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Yvonne Curry | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, May 4 | Indexing I--Beginning Indexing | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 3 pm | | Tue, May 5 | Ancestral Quest Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Robert Gerber | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Tue, May 5 | Learn How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Wed, May 6 | Intermediate FamilySearch Family Tree | Lynn Miller | 6 wks | 5 pm | | Wed, May 6 | Ancestry.com | Dedee Dalebout | 2 wks | 7:00 PM | | Thu, May 7 | Legacy Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Thu, May 7 | Computer Basics | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Sat, May 9 | You Can Find Cousins Using Puzzilla | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 10 am | | Mon, May 11 | Indexing II--Beyond the Basics | Von Taylor | 1wk | 3 pm | | Wed, May 13 | Introduction to Swedish Websites | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Fri, May 15 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | | Sat, May 16 | Using Facebook in Family History Research | John Burton | 1 wk | 10:00 AM | | Sat, May 16 | How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Gail Bartholomew | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, May 18 | Indexing Obituaries | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 10 am | | Mon, May 18 | Family History Research | Robert Curry | 1 wk | 3 pm | | Tue, May 19 | Young Women Family History Workshop | Linda Clark | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Wed, May 20 | A Closer Look At Swedish Records | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Wed, May 20 | Family Tree (Taught in Spanish) | Joe/Martha Thurston | 1 wk | 7:00 PM | | Thu, May 21 | Mobile Apps--FS Tree, FS Memories | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Wed, May 27 | Photo Enhancement | Burnis Skinner | 2 wks | 10 am | | Wed, May 27 | Danish Research (May 27, June 3, 10, 24) | Ida Niederhauser | 4 wks | 1:00 PM | | Wed, May 27 | Ancestral Quest | Arlene Miller | 3 wks | 7 pm | | Thu, May 28 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 6-9 pm | | Sat, May 30 | Probate and Family History | Gail Bartholomew | 2 wks | 10 am | | Mon, Jun 1 | Roots Magic Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Yvonne Curry | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, Jun 1 | FamilySearch | Robert Curry | 2 wks | 3 pm | | Tue, Jun 2 | Ancestral Quest Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Robert Gerber | 1 wk | 1 pm | | | | | | | Thu, Jun 4 | Legacy Users Group (No Registration Needed) | Irene Burton | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Thu, Jun 4 | Research Methods | Martin Peterson | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Fri, Jun 5 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1-4 pm | | Sat, Jun 6 | FamilySearch: Introduction and Overview--Beginner | John Burton | 1 wk | 1:00 PM | | Mon, Jun 8 | My Heritage | Yvonne Curry | 1 wk | 10 am | | Mon, Jun 8 | Indexing I--Beginning Indexing | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Tue, Jun 9 | How to Separate Records in FT with the Same PID | Robert Gerber | 2 wks | 10 am | | Tue, Jun 9 | How to Write Your Personal History | John Clark | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Thu, Jun 11 | Computer Basics | Stacie Gomm | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Thu, Jun 11 | Find My Past | Robert Curry | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Sat, Jun 13 | Family Tree Sources | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Mon, Jun 15 | Indexing II--Beyond the Basics | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Tue, Jun 16 | Roots Magic | Dave Winkler | 3 wks | 5 pm | | Tue, Jun 16 | Young Women Family History Workshop | Linda Clark | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Mon, Jun 22 | Indexing Obituaries | Von Taylor | 1 wk | 1 pm | | Tue, Jun 23 | Learn How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 7 pm | | Wed, Jun 24 | Making a Family History Page in Facebook | Dave Winkler | 1 wk | 10 am | | Wed, Jun 24 | You Can Find Cousins Using Puzzilla | Dedee Dalebout | 1 wk | 5 pm | | Thu, Jun 25 | Family History Consultants Workshop (No Reg Needed) | Wade Nicholas | 1 wk | 6-9 pm | | Sat, Jun 27 | How to Merge Records in Family Tree | Gail Bartholomew | 1 wk | 10 am |
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Billy K. Jones
Director of Training
Logan Utah FamilySearch Library
Phone: (435) 755-5594 |
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