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Announcements
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The Quarterly Family History Consultants Training meeting will be held Wednesday, April 29 at 7:30 pm
for all Family History Consultants, Ward and Stake Priesthood Leaders and Stake Indexing Leaders. Held in the Tabernacle Chapel. New Family History Consultants and Priesthood leaders will meet at 6:30 pm in the FamilySearch library.
Smithfield South
Stake Family Discovery Day
451 South 250 East, Smithfield, UT
25 April, 2015 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Family History Palooza
197 North 100 East, Smithfield, UT (behind McDonalds)
25 April, 2015 - 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Family History Consultant Workshop
Thu, April 23, 6pm - 9pm Instructor: Wade Nicholas
Logan family Search Library
Ask our staff about our Oral History program and the Outreach Oral History Project.
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Whats New in Family Search? |
New Interface for FamilySearch Family Tree
FamilySearch has started testing a new home page. The new page is called the "Logged In Home Page" and has been released to 5% of the English speaking patrons in the United States. A release date has not been established. One of the testers has written a blog article that you may be interested in viewing. Click here to see Amy Archibald's initial review.
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Help Desk |
How can I order Family Discover Day and Other Support Materials?
Are you hosting a family discovery day and looking into printing customized posters, fliers, and other materials? Are you looking for materials that will help you engage and teach Church members and community members with family history? Problem solved! You can order support materials from two places: BYU Print Services and Store.LDS.org. Choose this link to learn more.
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Favorite Websites |
HistoryLines Oficial Launch and Special Offer
HistoryLines, a leading provider of historical solutions for genealogists and educators, today announced the official launch of historylines.com, a new website for users interested in genealogy and family history. The site allows anyone to better understand the lives of their forebears by describing the historical events and cultural influences that surrounded their lives. Users see their relatives in historical context with a personalized timeline and map, and can read a detailed, editable life sketch based on when and where their ancestor lived in history. HistoryLines.com provides an automatic, editable life sketch for your ancestors based on when and where they lived. What did your ancestors experience? What were their daily lives really like? Don't have the elusive records that tell their personal story? HistoryLines can help! HistoryLines is available online at https://historylines.com.
Digital Microfilm -- Browse Probate Record Collections on FamilySearch
Think of this process as "digital microfilm." You have to manually search for the information you seek. Rather than obtaining a series of microfilms (an Index, a Record Book, another Record Book, etc.), you do it online on FamilySearch; for FREE, in your pajamas. Rather than turning a microfilm crank, you can advance image by image or by guessing an image number to zero in on the desired page. And guessing again. Click this link to learn how to use this feature in FamilySearch.
5 Steps To Finding and Interpreting Clues in a Family Photograph
In an ideal world, a genealogist inherits the perfect family photograph-one in which relatives are thoughtfully posed in a well-lighted photography studio. Family members have passed down the photograph in pristine condition with the photographer's imprint and logo clearly marked, and a legible note in pencil on the back indicating the date the photographer created the image and who is in the picture, along with where and why the photograph was taken. The sum total is a checklist of sorts-four questions everyone must ask when analyzing Jewish family photographs: who, where, when, why. Rounding out the ideal photograph is a full-length view of the family appearing in the latest fashions, replete with hats, jewelry, and clearly visible shoes-the costume clues. Follow the steps by clicking here.
Protect an Overlooked Genealogy Treasure
When it comes to recording, preserving and conservation genealogists have impressive skills. Genealogists will scan or photograph original documents for later review. They will enter their data in a genealogy program - and even cite the sources! They will put family letters into protective sleeves and precious photos into acid free boxes. But there's one area that genealogists often overlook.
When was the last time you saved your email? While all email can be considered important, let's just consider the email related to your family history. This could be correspondence with a distant cousin or sending a request to an archive for a document. It could be a group collaboration on a sticky genealogical puzzle. Or it could be correspondence with a genealogical professional located in your ancestor's home town. Read more here.
Determine the Relationship Between Two Family Members
Your familiar with the titles father, mother, brother, sister, grand father and grand mother but, do you know what "third cousin twice removed" means?
When doing family history, it can be helpful to know the proper terms to describe relationships. Here are some definitions that can help you sort out all the people in your extended family tree. To look at this site click this link.
Hillary Clinton Family Tree a Wake-Up Call for Genealogy
When Irish America requested that I research and write a piece on Hillary Rodham Clinton's heritage (pages 50-52), I was concerned. Why? Because delving into the ancestral past of celebrities has become something of a sub-hobby in the world of genealogy, so I knew that countless others would have climbed the branches of her family tree. What would I possibly be able to add that wasn't already known?
Fortunately for me, but regrettably for genealogy in general, there was plenty of fresh terrain because I soon realized that everyone had a quarter of her family tree wrong. And when I say "everyone," I mean dozens of people on at least eight family history websites. Read the complete analysis at this link.
Finding A Family Hero - An Obscure Canadian Database You Might Not Have Used But Should
Canada, like many countries, presents honours and awards to its citizens as a way of paying tribute to acts of bravery and achievements that benefit the country and humanity. Most importantly for genealogists, the Governor General's website offers a searchable databaseand you might just be surprised to find a relative or ancestor who received a national honour or award. Read more-click here.
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Family History Consultants | Consultant Webinar Series
Need some help getting your members engaged? A series of webinars for family history consultants explores new tools and techniques for helping members with family history and temple work.
Member Triage- Adapting to Individual Needs
Getting the most out of your LDS-Ancestry Membership on Ancestry.com
Engaging Youth in Family History Using BillionGraves New Tools for Finding Our Cousins Igniting Interest Through Stories Descendancy Research: Finding the Past in the Present Go to this website: https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history/family-history-consultants/webinars?lang=eng |
Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought |
"Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine." Gordon B. Hinckley
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Remember...
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Where A Forest Has Grown I was giving myself a bad time of it the other day. It was one of those moments when you question your life. I kept wondering if I had done enough to learn, to grow, to help others, and to make this world a better place. I was being a tough judge on myself too. It was then, however, that God in His infinite wisdom gave me peace by awakening in my mind an old story that I had read many years before.The story begins when a young man taking a lone hiking trip loses his way and finds himself stranded without water in a desolate treeless valley. He is saved, though, when a widowed shepherd finds him and leads him to a spring. The man learns that the shepherd after losing his wife had decided to restore the ruined landscape by single-handedly planting a forest, tree by tree, with only a curling pole and acorns that he had collected from many miles away.
Many years later the man returns and finds a growing forest in the valley and the shepherd, now a bee keeper still at work cultivating and nurturing the woodland. The man continues to visit the valley each year and watches as over four decades the tree planter turns the valley into a Garden of Eden. In the end the man helps his friend to get the government to protect the forest and many people move there. He also visits him one last time as the now very old tree planter peacefully passes away.
Thinking of that story made me realize that each of us is a tree planter too. We plant trees of goodness with every loving thought we think, every kind word we share, and every caring act we do. We plant these trees each and everyday of our lives. We should waste no time judging ourselves then while there are more trees to plant. And at the end of our lives when we face our Heavenly Father, we can smile and see where a forest has grown.
By Joseph J. Mazzella
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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, 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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