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Announcements
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The Logan FamilySearch Library will be closed on Friday July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th for Independence Day celebrations. We will open for business again, Monday, July 6 at 9:30 am.
The Library has a small Lost and Found area in our Staff Room. If you are missing a flash drive or photos that might have been forgotten at the scanner, ask our Reception Staff to check our items.
The Logan FamilySearch Library has an excellent oral history recording room for use by our patrons. Ask our staff about bringing in your relatives to begin their life story. Cost is only $1.00 and an advance reservation and you get a DVD of the event.
Free classes for our staff and patrons has almost concluded for the summer. We will have a new system to better serve you beginning in September. If your youth has spare time this summer, consider our Thursday Youth Workshops to introduce Family Tree and Basic Research techniques. Call (435) 755-5594 for more information.
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| Whats New in Family Search? | 
The Family Members Section of the Family Tree Person Page is changing to make the boxes and entries look more like what is in the Landscape View. There will be a color bar added at the edge of each box related to the sex of the individual. A border is being added around each individual as a child or sibling. The words "Edit Couple" or "Edit Relationship" will be replaced with an Edit icon. The person whose page you are on will be shaded. Engineers are also working on a newer version of the Photos page and the People page under Memories. Watch for more information.
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| Help Desk | 
Failed sign-in has locked me out. I received the message: "Your account has been temporarily locked." What is wrong?
The system allows a user to try to log in four times with an incorrect user name or password. On the fifth incorrect attempt, the user gets locked out. If the user name and password are correct on the fifth attempt, the user is allowed access.
Once locked, the account is inaccessible for 10 minutes.
The lockout measure is taken as a security precaution. Without a lockout feature, someone could attempt thousands of different passwords to break in.
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| Favorite Websites | 
A Simple Four-Part System for Naming Digital Photo Files
Denise Levenick
The key to organizing your photo collection is a simple and logical naming system. Start with simple file names that don't require a key to abbreviations. And make it a habit to import and rename images soon after a photo shoot or scanning session. Click here to learn the method.
Fly Around Your Family Tree with ZoomPast
Many of us use computers for storing our data but displaying it to others often is a "herky-jerky" motion as we click on link after link, jumping through generations. Did you ever try to show a non-genealogist relative ten generations of his or her ancestry, including cousins? Within a couple of minutes, that person's eyes probably looked dazed. What is needed is the electronic equivalent of a large rood map. A new web site developed by the Imperial College London seems to solves this problem by allowing huge and complex genealogies to be explored, using an innovative zooming interface, similar to an interactive map. Read more and see a video - click here.
The New Facts View: Make Sure You Are Climbing YOUR Family Tree and Not Someone Else's
Have you seen the new Facts View on your Ancestry online tree? If you haven't let me tell you what you are missing. Just like before, you will find the facts you've discovered and entered about the life of a person in your tree running down the page like a timeline. You will also find that the parents, spouse and children of the person are on the right-hand side of the page just where they have always been. The big change you will discover is that the sources that support those facts and relationships are now front and center. New from Ancestry.com-click here to learn more.
One way to browse census records is to figure out which census enumeration district (ED) the person lived in, then page through schedules covering that ED. But the right ED isn't always the easiest to find. Find a neighbor, then browse. lick here to see how it works.
Looking beyond the letter: what you can learn from a letterhead
Letters in our archives are more than just words on a page - the correspondence as well as the images and logos contained in the letterhead provide an illuminating record of the past, whether it be events, attitudes or the built environment. Call up this link to learn more.
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| Family History Research Help | 
This publication is useful for family historians and local historians alike because it contains an estimated 22,500 name entries and some of these places no longer exist.
Baptist Churches in Quebec 1794-1967
Anyone looking for information about ancestors who were active in Baptist Churches in Quebec between 1794 and 1967 will appreciate Jacques Gagné's latest compilation, which tells you which records exist and where you might find them.
A Guide to WW1 Medals
Millions of men and women who served in the armed forces during the First World War were awarded campaign medals. In the majority of cases they received more than one, and they are the best way to start research into a WW1 soldier. This is due to each medal having the recipient's service number, rank, name, and unit (except for officers) impressed either around the rim, or across the back of the 1914 and 1914 - 15 Stars. With this information, you can quickly find the soldier's Medal Index Card, and begin your search for other records.
Free Webinar-Learn How to Find Your Danish Ancestors
Please join FamilySearch this July for a special webinar research series on Danish genealogical research. The first class in our series will be held on 2 July 2015 at 7 pm (MT). This class will explore the occurrence of liturgical feast days (such as Easter) in the church records and how to easily and quickly determine the numerical date.
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| Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought | 
"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others. By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves."
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Remember...
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The Mental Chain
Most People Are Like The Circus Elephant. Have You Ever Seen A Giant Elephant In An Indoor Arena Tied To A Little Wooden Stake. That Huge Creature Can Pick Up Two Thousand Pounds With Its Trunk, Yet It Calmly Stays Tied. Why?
When That Elephant Was Just A Baby, And Not Very Strong, It Was Tied By A Huge Chain To An Iron Stake That Could Not Be Moved. Regardless Of How Hard It Tried, It Could Not Break The Chain And Run Free. After It A While It Just Gave Up. Later, When It Is Strong, It Never Attempts To Break Free. The "Imprint" Is Permanent. "I Can't! I Can't!' It Says.
There Are Millions Of People Who Behave Like This Creature Of The Circus. They Have Been Bound, Tied And Told "You'll Never Make It," So Many Times They Finally Call It Quits. The May Have Dreams, But The "Imprinting" Keeps Pulling Them Back.
Today, Eliminate The Source Of Your Limitations. When You Mentally Break Free, The Boundaries Will Be Removed From Your Future.
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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
| | | | | | 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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