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Please help make this newsletter a success by submitting your Family History questions, tips, favorite websites, surname queries, quotes and stories to share with others. Submit.
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Announcements
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Family History Consultants Workshop will be held Friday, March 11 from 1:00 pm -4:00 pm at the Library. Instructor is Wade Nicholas.
Brigham City Family History Center Family History Fair, Discover and Preserve Family Memories. Saturday, March 12, 2016 from 1:00 - 6:30 pm at the Brigham City Family History Center, 531 North 100 West, Brigham City - phone 723-5995
Smithfield Stake Family History Fair
March 12, 2016 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
600 east 120 South, Smithfield, Utah 84335
Keynote at 9:00 am - 16 free classes
Help desk with family history consultants available
Primary programs for Primary ages (must be supervised)
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? |  7 Lessons From RootsTech 2016 That Can Lead to Family History Breakthroughs
Perhaps you're wondering how you can take what you learned and use it. FamilySearch-and some of your fellow genealogy lovers who attended RootsTech-can help. These tips will help you achieve some research breakthroughs as you build out your family tree. Click here to see the steps.
All About the FamilySearch.org Digital Books Collection
Numerous books compiling town, county, and church vital records have been published over the years-and they are increasingly being digitized. You can search about 150,000 of these digitized books through the FamilySearch Books collection. Among the books you can search include digitized genealogies, family histories, county and local histories, genealogy periodicals, gazetteers, and school yearbooks. Click here to see more.
How to Find Unsearchable Genealogy Records on FamilySearch.org
Did you know that when you search the Historical Records collection on FamilySearch.org that you're searching only a fraction of the website's digitized records? That's because many record image collections on the site are unindexed, and thus not included in search results.
So, how do you access these records? You need to browse through the records online, sort of like browsing through microfilmed records. Click here to learn more.
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Question: At RootsTech they had an area where there was book scanning being done. If I understood it right, you can take books to a West Valley City Family History Center (if that is correct an address would be helpful) and scan your books there. Or, if you can take your books to Ogden or Pocatello and they will scan the book for you. Am I understanding this correctly? Any additional information would be appreciated.
Answer: Every FamilySearch Library has Lexmark scanner capable of scanning a variety of books, newspapers and documents free of charge. It is self service equipment and is normally scanned to a flash drive or directly into your FamilySearch account. it is important that you be considerate of other patrons when using this equipment for extended periods of time. The libraries you indicated in your inquiry have operations which are dedicated to scanning books and manuscripts for FamilySearch and do not accept work directly from patrons.
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Become Your Own Family's History Expert
There is danger lurking in Family History - and the biggest danger is thinking it's been done and that it's all been found. Don't get comfortable with such thoughts. Learn to be uncomfortable, so you can always be thinking of more possibilities, Keep an open mind and keep checking. Click here to learn how you can become an expert for your own Family's History methodically.
Longevity Pedigree Chart
People are taking different approaches. Some people are just putting the age at death on a blank pedigree chart. One person created a new "tree" in their genealogy software with the death ages, which is very crisp and attractive. I thought about that approach, but I would have added their cause of death, and then I would want to know who died. See what you can learn from this approach, click here.
The new funeral tradition: Taking a DNA sample
When a person's time on earth has passed, there are many options for what to do with the pieces of them that remain. There's burial, cremation or even turning them into compost. And now, if you're scientifically-minded, there's DNA sampling. See more-click here.
GIS and GenealogyTeaching GIS while learning about the past
This article describes how GIS students helped one of the authors with a genealogy project to trace the movements of his ancestors during the 19th century. Genealogists like to track the movement of ancestors across the land. Identifying when these people lived in specific places can reveal much about their daily lives. GIS techniques can provide a powerful tool for locating these places in space and time. Learn more- click here.
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Introducing the Irish Catholic Parish Registers collection
Ancestry has just launched the Irish Catholic Parish Registers collection containing over 10 million baptism, marriage and death records, covering every diocese in Ireland. The parish registers along with the Irish Census (1901/1911), Irish Civil Registers (birth, marriage, death) and land records (Griffith, Tithe Books) form the backbone of Irish family history research all the way from the 17th to the 20th century. - See more click here.
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| Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought | 
"A universal system of intelligent cooperation will bring together on one record sheet every fact in existence regarding a particular family. This wealth of data will insure accuracy and banish error. Expensive and time-consuming duplication's in research and repetitions in ordinances will be eliminated. No sooner will a new fact be uncovered in any part of the world by a researcher than it will be communicated to the archives center and be assigned to its proper place on some family record."
Archibald F. Bennett, Secretary Genealogical Society of Utah, 20 December 1947
(This is FamilySearch - now)
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Remember...
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The Doll Maker by: Author Unknown
In a little village, there lived a crafts man by name Ébun, who made wooden dolls for children.
Ébun was so naturally gifted in his handwork that his fame spread to all the neighboring villages. People from all over the region came to buy wooden dolls from him or bring their broken dolls for repairs. He carefully studied the broken dolls and looked for the best way to mend it such that it looked exactly the way it was when he first made it.
Ébun had a little daughter for whom he made a very beautiful doll on her tenth birthday. The little girl was so much in love with her little doll that she always played with it along with her friends. One day while playing with the doll, the wooden doll got broken and the little girl cried and ran to her father with the broken doll. When she got to him she complained that her doll's arm got broken while she was playing with it. The father took time to listen to her complaints and then told her to leave the doll with him and come back later for it. The little girl said "no daddy you don't understand, all I want you to do is carve out another arm and polish it, and then use some glue or nail and join it back that's all !!. The father still tried to explain to her to leave the doll with him and come back after sometime for it because he made the doll and he knows how best to mend it when it is broken. The little grew impatient and said to her father, "Daddy, you are not doing it the way I want, you are too slow." With that statement the little girl grabbed the doll and left her father's workshop. The father called after her but she wouldn't come back, and he felt so sad.
Like that little girl, most of us take our problems to God and try to dictate to him how he should solve them. We often fail to realize that God made us and He understands how best to handle all our daily problems if left at His feet.
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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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