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Announcements
The Tour of Utah 
American pro cycling event will begin at 138 North 100 East (1/2 block from the Tabernacle) on Monday, August 3.  With the anticipated traffic and congestion for this event we feel it is best to close the FamilySearch Library that day.  Normal operation will resume on Tuesday, August 4.

Quarterly Training
Wed, July 29, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
General Meeting in the Tabernacle Chapel will feature Bryce Roper, Senior Product Manager with FamilySearch.
6:30 to 7:15 New Consultants & Leaders meet in the FamilySearch Library area.
7:30 to 8:30 General session in the Tabernacle
FamilySearch Library Staff, High Priest Group Leader and Ward Family History Consultants are welcome to attend.







 Whats New in Family Search?

FamilySearch Building in Lehi 

FamilySearch is building in Lehi, Utah. Lehi sits between Salt Lake City and Provo. A Salt Lake TV station, KSL 5, broke the news

 last week. FamilySearch owner, The Church of Jesus Christof Latter-day Saints, issued the following statement:

The property at Thanksgiving Point was purchased by the Church with a small portion donated by the Ashton family. Plans for the site have been submitted to the City of  Lehi, as required, and meet all zoning and land use requirements. The proposed site plan allows the Church to construct a two-building campus (four stories each) on the property. One will be used as a key facility of FamilySearch International, the Church's family history subsidiary. Included in this building will be a FamilySearch... Discovery Center, which provides a highly interactive experience for the public to explore their family history. The other would be initially used as commercial office property and later as possible expansion space for FamilySearch. The landscaping and architecture of the buildings has been designed to complement the surrounding golf course, residential properties and other Thanksgiving Point venues.


Volunteer for FamilySearch Worldwide Indexing Event
Become one of a record-setting 100,000 online volunteers expected to participate in the second annual 
Worldwide Indexing Event,  August 7-14, sponsored by FamilySearch.org.  Read more-click here.

 

Help Desk
How does merging prevent ordinance duplication? 
I have been told that ordinance duplication went way down when we were asked to merge individuals in FT (and maybe nFS). But I cannot see how merging by itself reduces duplication,since we determine whether a person is a match BEFORE any merging takes place. 
Perhaps there is another reason driving the reduction in duplicated ordinances? Because the database is now more complete (I am pretty sure that there were ordinances done in 1935 that did not appear in TempleReady)? Or that the matching algorithm is better? 

Answer:  When you merge duplicate records, the earliest ordinance work completed is attached to the new record on the left of the merge. If the record on the left before the merge had a green temple icon alert indicating temple work was needed, and if the record on the right had that temple ordinance completed, then the green icon on the new record disappears after the merge, and the earliest ordinances appear on the Ordinance section of the person page. The earliest work done is the only work that is effective or valid. Thus, the record no longer qualifies for reservation into the temple file since the work is completed. And that how a merge of duplicates reduces duplication of ordinance work. 
When young people were encouraged to get on Family Tree to find possibly hundred of ordinance work for ancestors, they were not told about merging duplicate records where ordinances were already done. The clicking away on green arrows (now temple icons) led to many invalid, ineffective ordinances being repeated. 

Favorite Websites

Common Words Charts 

Here are two pages of commonly used words in genealogy research, translated into 14 languages (the same words, but 7 different languages on each page). The translations may not be perfect, but they should be at least close enough to help you decipher records written in another language. You may download these by clicking on the image, and the PDF document should fit nicely on 8 1/2 x 14 (legal) paper.  Click here.

http://relativelycurious.com/common-words-charts/ 

 

Social Security Applications and Claims Index 

Ancestry.com has recently added "Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 to their list of searchable databases. The information on the individuals in the database (49 million by the Ancestry.com count) appears to have been taken from the SS-5 card ("Application for a Social Security and Tax Account Number"). The information in this database is for deceased individuals.

Click this link to learn more.

http://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/?p=611


 

The Different Camera Icons on FamilySearch.org

Did you know that FamilySearch.org now uses two different camera icons to indicate if a digital record image is available for a particular record?   Click here to learn more. 

http://danamccullough.com/2015/07/20/the-different-camera-icons-on-familysearch-org/


 
 So much of what we do as genealogists in now online. What hasn't changed is that we still need to ask people for help. We still need information that can only be found locally and we need information that is unpublished and resides only in personal family archives.  Click here to learn more.

Family History Research Help
New Brunswick Research Sites
One province where I find a number of branches of my family tree is New Brunswick, Canada. Fortunately there are some great online resources that touch upon that province.   Click here.

Irish Catholic Registers go On-line
The National Library of Ireland this week launched a website which will make a lot of Irish researchers very happy. The Library's entire collection of microfilms of Catholic parish registers has been put on-line at http://registers.nli.ie. The collection contains microfilms of 3,500 registers from 1,086 parishes and is by far the largest collection of such Irish records in existence. The original registers are still in their parish of origin, and only 56 registers are not available for reasons explained in the excellent FAQ section on the site.  Click here.

Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought
     "We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become expert 
     in  family history work without first being a novice.  Therefore,
    Therefore, we must plunge into this work and we must prepare for some                  uphill climbing.  This is not an easy task, but the Lord has placed it upon                you, and he has placed it upon me."
     President Thomas Monson   
Remember...

God's Embroidery
 

When I was a little boy, my mother used to embroider a great deal. I would sit at her knee and look up from the floor and ask what she was doing. She informed me that she was embroidering. As from the

underside I watched her work within the boundaries of the little round hoop that she held in her hand, I complained to her that it sure looked messy from where I sat.


She would smile at me, look down and gently say, "Son, you go about your playing for a while, and when I am finished with my embroidering, I will put you on my knee and let you see it from my side."


I would wonder why she was using some dark threads along with the bright ones and why they seemed so jumbled from my view. A few minutes would pass and then I would hear Mother's voice say, "Son, come and sit on my knee." This I did only to be surprised and thrilled to see a beautiful flower or a sunset. I could not believe it, because from underneath it looked so messy.


Then Mother would say to me, "My son, from underneath it did look messy and jumbled, but you did not realize that there was a pre-drawn plan on the top. It was a design. I was only following it. Now look at it from my side and you will see what I was doing."


Many times through the years I have looked up to my Heavenly Father and said, "Father, what are You doing?" He has answered, "I am embroidering your life." I say, "But it looks like a mess to me. It seems so jumbled. The threads seem so dark. Why can't they all be bright?" The Father seems to tell me, "'My child, you go about your business of doing My business, and one day I will bring you to Heaven and put you on My knee and you will see the plan from My side."


Author Unknown


Upcoming Classes

Classes are closed for the summer during July and August.

 If you have a group and would like to arrange instruction on a specific subject, please call the Library at (435) 755-5594.   We will schedule a time and arrange for our staff to be available to instruct you.

Watch for our new class schedule-it will be published in early August.

Sincerely,

 

Billy K. Jones
Director of Training
Logan Utah FamilySearch Library

Phone: (435) 755-5594

 


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