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Announcements
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Youth Workshop "Learning to do Genealogy Research"
Thu, August 20, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Class to teach youth to do their Gen. Research. Instructor: Wade Nicholas
Library will be closed Saturday, 22 August, 2015. The parking lot will be resurfaced that day.
We are almost ready to launch our new series of FREE classes for the next 10 months. We have a new booking system, the ability to see details on each class that is offered and a well rounded
curriculum. Watch for our newsletter next week and we will also have schedules available at the library soon.
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| Whats New in Family Search? | 
Monday, August 17 - FamilySearch Messaging will allow users to communicate with one another through FamilySearch.org without requiring additional personal information (i.e. email, phone, physical address) to be made public through settings. This feature will not force a user to respond to a message.
Performance of FamilySearch.org is so bad on Sunday, it makes us want to stop doing genealogy. What are you doing to fix it?
Ron Tanner from the BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy last week--
"The trick is, don't do all your geneology on Sunday. Seriously, we don't want to discourage that. We're working very hard to get off New.FamilySearch (NFS). Family Tree was designed for 10 times the capacity. Now we are running at 18 times. We are converting every system that we have to a new database and new technologies in order to make the site more responsive, no matter what day you come".
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| Help Desk | 
- How can I contact someone who has not made their email address public?
- Someone changed the information on my ancestor, can I get a message to them?
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Family Tree is a collaborative, universal pedigree best worked on together. A key ingredient of that collaboration is the ability to make changes, updates, additions, and the capability to carry on a conversation with those you are working with. That conversation just got a lot easier through the FamilySearch Messaging feature.
FamilySearch Messaging provides patrons with the ability to communicate with each other. - The messaging system connects each FamilySearch user in a private network using the FamilySearch.org Contact Name, which is already public, allowing patrons to keep their contact information private. Within the FamilySearch.org Family Tree, the user-to-user messaging will work like text messaging. New conversations between users can be initiated on the Contact Card wherever it shows the last change or from the Show All Changes page.
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| Favorite Websites |
If you're deep into your family history research and have not yet been able to find some of your female ancestors, you're not alone. There are actually good reasons as to why you and many others can't seem to locate these elusive ladies from your familial past. Follow this link for Research Tips for Finding Ancestors' Maiden Names.
http://blog.genealogists.com/2015/08/5-time-saving-tips-for-finding-maiden.html
Today's collection is Peel's Prairie Provincesnewspapers. This is a collection of currently 111 titles, 66,000 total issues and 4.8 million articles that have been digitized and are available for full text searching for free. The collection is brought to you by the University of Alberta Libraries.
Most of the collection is for newspapers from Alberta, but there are titles from British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It is one of the few multi-province collections available across Canada.
U.S. Church Record Libraries and Depositories
When ancestors lived in locations that didn't require vital record registration at the time, church records can help fill in the gaps when trying to document their lives. Traditionally, though, church records have often been somewhat difficult to access, not only online, but in paper form, too, because they are often housed at the local level. Little by little, this is changing, and some are becoming accessible online. Click here for some sources to check for specific religious denominations.
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| Family History Research Help | 
Find French Birth Records
The French archives are absolutely wonderful since many birth, marriage, and death records have been scanned and are available online for free. They aren't searchable but, as long as you know the town, you can browse the images to find key records for your family members. Follow this link:
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- Northumberland Baptisms
- British Army, Casualty Index War of 1812
- British Army, Deserters and Absentees in Police Gazette 1914-1919
- British Jewry Book of Honor 1914-1920
- Scottish Covenanters 1679-1688
- Church of Ireland Parish Record Search Forms
- New South Wales, 1828 Census Householders' Returns
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| Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought |  "We need to thoughtfully allocate our resources of time, income, and energy. I would like to let you in on a little secret. Some of you have already learned it. If you haven't, it's time you knew. No matter what your family needs are or your responsibilities in the church, there is no such thing as 'done'. There is always more we can do..."
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Remember...
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Songs In The Night"Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night?" - Job (Job 35:10) Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the world's greatest musicians, was born into a musical family in Germany. As a child he spent many lonely hours practicing his music every day. By the age of eleven he was already composing his own music and conducting an orchestra. In his late teens he went to Vienna for further study. There he reached fame though not fortune. One evening as he was out walking he passed a cobbler's house where he heard someone inside practicing one of his compositions. As he stopped to listen he overheard a girl say that she wished she could hear a real musician play it properly. Beethoven went into the house and, noticing the young lady at the piano was blind, offered to play the piece for her. He did so for her for more than an hour and while he did, darkness fell and the lone candle in the room had gone out. Outside in the night sky the moon shone brightly and sent its radiant beams glistening into the room where Beethoven sat playing beautiful music. He was so inspired by the appreciation of his music by the young lady and the beauty of the atmosphere in the room that he composed his famous "Moonlight Sonata." Do you ever feel that your dreams have been shattered and you feel all alone in the darkness of despair? I certainly have. However, when our life is committed to Christ, it's in these "dark nights of the soul" when God is working in us to give us more understanding of life and compassion for others and in time will bring back the music into our life. Author Unknown
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Upcoming Classes
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FREE classes will begin again at the Logan FamilySearch Library on Tuesday, 8 September. Next weeks newsletter will have information for booking a class and scheduling information.
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Billy K. Jones
Director of Training
Logan Utah FamilySearch Library
Phone: (435) 755-5594 |
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