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Announcements
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There will be an Indexing Workshop conducted Monday, 22 February at 1:00 pm. All levels of experience are invited to attend. Von Taylor will conduct the training.
Do you have Boy Scouts that would like to earn
a Genealogy Merit Badge? Young Women working on their personal progress in Genealogy? Youth who need information on pioneer ancestors for the trek or trek advisers that could use some training? Please call the FamilySearch library to schedule training and more or send the newsletter an email. We will provide custom training for your group.
Logan South Stake Family Discovery Day
The Logan South Stake is hosting a Family Discovery Day, Saturday, February 20th, 2016 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm at the Stake building located at 340 West 700 South (near Willow Park) and indicates all are welcome to attend.
Is your ward or stake planning a Family Discovery Day? Please let us know and we will post it in the newsletter.
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| Whats New in Family Search? |  Facebook and Family History-What a Match!
Think Facebook is just for keeping up with friends and family? Think again!
Amy Archibald wants you to know that Facebook IS family history, and that it can be a powerful family history tool to help you in many ways.
Would you like to get your family "on the same page?" By creating a Facebook group for your family, members can share their memories of a picture, post answers to a question (like, "What do you remember about fishing trips with grandpa?"), announce and celebrate family events (even virtual family reunions), conduct ongoing discussions, and just keep each other up to date on doings. Connecting in this way can bring families closer. Click here to learn how. The Surprising Secret that Holds a Family Together
Bruce Feiler was a keynote speaker at the RootsTech Convention on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.
In 2013 Bruce Feiler, New York Times columnist and six-times best-selling author, wrote an article that may have surprised even him. Called "The Stories that Bind Us", it was an answer to these questions: "What is the secret sauce that holds a family together? What are the ingredients that make some families effective, resilient, happy?" Read more-click this link.
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| Help Desk | 
Are we supposed to be attaching all sources that belong to a given person?
I was at the Ogden, Utah Family History Center last week and overheard a conversation. One person was instructing another to mark as not a match all records for a person that were duplicates of information already included on that person. This was especially a problem with marriage records in which multiple record collections contained the same marriage.
Are there any long term plans for records that are never attached to a person or family such as assigning researchers to investigate them or using them as extracted records for temple work? I see a potential problem in the future if people are treating Not A Match to mean truly not a match OR a match but a duplicate of information already included.
Answer: Marking them as "Not A Match" is the worst possible thing to do. According to comments from Family Search personnel, that tells the computer hinting routine that even though the information matches perfectly, it is not the same person and this will foul up future hinting for that person.
Personally I attach them all, viewing Family Tree as a master index to all historical database records for the person. If someone is searching a historical record database and finds a record for someone already in Family Tree, I want them to be led to the proper individual through the "Review Attachments" or "View on Family Tree" links, rather than make a duplicate individual in Family Tree for that person.
it appears that plans are being made for truly duplicate records. However, some of these hints that look like duplicates are not. I have seen some Utah marriage record collections where a marriage is indexed three times but they only look like duplicates. One record is for the marriage license application, one is for marriage license, and one is for the county clerk's typed copy of the marriage license. Each can have additional information that was not indexed and all are worth attaching so that future researches will be lead to all three originals.
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Do I Own My Story? But What If It's Also Your Story, and You Don't Want Me To Tell It?
When I began working on my first memoir, I realized that it's not that simple. Yes, I own my story-that is, I have the right to tell the stories of my life. But I don't live in a vacuum, and in order to tell my stories I cannot help but tell the stories of others. Do I have that right? Do I have the right to recall things that other people did, write them down, attach their names to them, and publish them in a book? Do I have to ask permission? What if they say no? Click here for five suggestions that may help you.
RootsTech 2016: Innovator Summit: Steve Rockwood
Innovator Summit General Session
Steve Rockwood, CEO of FamilySearch shared the 5 areas of focus for FamilySearch. Click here to watch a short video of this presentation.
10 Things I Liked Enough to Share With You: RootsTech '16 Edition
This is a summary of 10 events that you will find useful. Click here.
RootsTech 2016 Syllabus Links
State Archives and Libraries: Free Online Resources
An impressive amount of state historical books and records are available on free, state-funded websites; however, such sites, often with hundreds of different sources, can be hard to find and complex to use. Usually unknown and therefore overlooked by researchers, these state-supported sites are hidden gems; gold mines of ancestral information waiting to be discovered and used. They are free and paid for by tax dollars; it's time we make more people aware of these valuable resources. Read More-click here.
U.S. Census Record Secrets Revealed!
It is too easy to just attach a source to a person without looking at it and discovering and connecting with all the hidden treasures found in these marvelous census records. You can find a whole treasure trove of valuable information from census records. What Treasures are Hiding in Your Tree? Click here to discover more.
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6 Tips to Find Your Mexican Family History
For the millions of people with Mexican ancestry who want to celebrate by learning more about their Mexican heritage, here are recommendations for six quick research tips. Click here.
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| Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought | 
"Life is full of difficulties, some minor and others of a more serious nature. There seems to be an unending supply of challenges for one and all. Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required".
President Thomas S. Monson
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Remember...
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Stand Tall Like The Sunflowerby Tony Masiello I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness. My wife, daughter, and I moved into our home nine years ago and we spent a lot of time and energy in the yard to get it looking like it does today. We live on a corner, higher than street level, and the entire side of the yard is encased by a professionally built rock wall. The front of the house though is another story because instead of a wall along the sidewalk the rocks appear to be just thrown up onto the dirt as if someone were in a hurry to finish. We did the best we could with what we had to work with and called this area our 'rock garden'. Whenever we had left over flowers or plants, Denise or I would stick them out front, just to bring some color to the area. I still do all of my own yard work, even the dreaded weed-pulling. After putting on my knee pads I assume the position to clear the yard of weeds, even in the rock garden. Last summer I had reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn't plant it and Denise claimed that she didn't either. We decided to let it continue growing until we could figure out what it was. Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the mystery plant, it appeared to be a Sunflower. It was spindly looking with a tall skinny stalk and only one head on it. I decided to baby it along and weed around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something unusual. The Sunflower had not started where I saw the stalk begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the sun. That's when I realized that if a tiny little Sunflower didn't let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the capability of doing the same thing. Once our environment begins to see that we believe in ourselves like that little Sunflower, we can attain the same nourishment and nurturing as well. First, we need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the capabilities in achieving our desires. Like the Sunflower, it knew it had the capability to overcome its obstacle because it trusted in the Universal Truth and had faith it would succeed. Stand tall like the Sunflower and be proud of who and what you are and the environment will begin to support you. You will find a way to go under or around your big obstacle in order to reach your desires.
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Upcoming Classes
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New classes are available
To book a class now visit our website
You may call the library (435) 755-5594 for assistance
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Billy K. Jones
Director of Training
Logan Utah FamilySearch Library
Email: arc314@comcast.net Phone: (435) 755-5594 |
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