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Announcements
|  Due to conflicts and scheduling associated with Spring Break, it has become necessary to cancel the Quarterly Family History Consultants Training sessions which were scheduled for Wednesday, March 30. Please help us inform those in your wards and anyone who inquires that this event will not be held in March.
Stake Family Discovery Days
If your stake is planning a Discovery Day please let the newsletter know. We will publish your event about three weeks in advance.
Family History Consultants workshop Thursday, March 24, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Instructor: Wade Nicholas
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| Whats New in Family Search? |  Why was the Name of the Genealogical Library Changed to the Family History Library in 1987?
In 1987, the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), was renamed the Family History Library. What led to this change? I've heard various explanations, so I decided to investigate. Here's what I found. Click here to learn the history.
Phishing, Scams, Viruses and Trojan Horses - How to Protect Your Computer
With the proliferation of electronic devices that connect to the Internet, it becomes harder and harder to protect yourself and your computer from the possibility of dangerous or malicious programs destroying data or stealing personal private information.
Genealogists may not be any smarter than the average computer user, but they have a lot more to lose. What would you do if your computer crashed right this instant? To understand the problem click here.3 Tips For Preserving the Legacies of Today
"Family history is the joy of connecting ourselves to our ancestors," said Dennis Brimhall, former CEO at FamilySearch International "That kind of discovery is fun. It's moving. It's exciting." While there are many ways to record your own history, and the history of those around you, click here to see three tips to get your started. |
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Starving to Death -> need more Storage!
Please open up the spigot for how much audio storage is available on Family Tree memories. 15MB is maybe 15 minutes, and my telephone interviews with my mom are always over an hour. Editing audio files is tech-y, requiring special tools, and many cannot do it, and cutting audio files up into 15 minute hunks is like cutting up your photo into 1" squares - it is not patron friendly and not copacetic.
Answer: It sounds like you are using a sampling rate (about 1 meg per minute of
audio) that is good for fidelity quality music. Since these are spoken audio files you may want to consider exporting those at a lower bit rate - faster upload, faster download, less memory. I did some quick testing. I took a sample audio file and exported it with various settings. 320 Kbps is actually really high, even for high fidelity music recordings. Audio files for the purpose of genealogy are frequently voice which has a very narrow and low frequency range.
The quality down to about 16K bps is acceptably good. Below 12K gets pretty choppy. If you exported that entire 45 minute as 16K bps mp3 it (under 7meg file size) would easily fit in the current limit. The next question is who would listen to 45 minutes, maybe add some notes about relevant bookmarks in the audio.
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5 Reasons Why Google Can't Show You Your Ancestral Home
The advent of online mapping services such as Mapquest and Google Maps has been a boon for us to find current-day locations. Unfortunately, this has led to genealogists thinking that they can be used as a shortcut to identify the location of family homes. While one can attempt this, doing so would fail to meet the levels of proof necessary for genealogical research. There are a number of reasons for this-click here to learn more.
Getting at the Original
Back in the mists of time, when I was first learning about genealogical research methods, I began doing the sorts of things that guidebooks told a researcher to do: I began asking for copies of records related to my families from the repositories or custodians whose responsibility it was to maintain the records in question. Whether it was a church, or an archive, or a clerk's office, I wrote a ton of those "may I please order a copy?" letters. In those early days, I would often receive back favorable responses, or requests for payment AFTER the record request was fulfilled. Click here for more.
Don't Burn Your Family Letters When You Declutter
Family letters - including your parents' love letters - aren't the same as old china. Once letters gone, they're gone forever. If you get rid of the china, you can buy another set that looked like it. But you can't do that with letters. Learn more-click here.
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Tracing Irish American Immigrants
Tracing Irish American immigrants seems a lot like finding a four-leaf clover-if you find a clover with all four leaflets, you're bound to have good luck.
The four leaflets (or steps) of Irish immigrant research are:
1. Seek to discover the immigrant's Irish origins using U.S. records.
2. Identify your immigrant ancestor's family and friends.
3. Trace the origins of family and friends.
4. Learn more about the immigrant in Irish records.
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| Suggestion for Weekly Bulletin Thought | 
A Bond that Ties Generations Together
"There really can be a bond and a sense of belonging that ties together generations. ... This bond gives us a sense of identity and purpose. Our ties with the eternal world suddenly become very real, sharpening our life's focus and lifting our expectations. ... We can discover within ourselves a reservoir of patience and endurance that we never will find without the deep commitment that grows from a sense of real belonging. Exerting such immovable loyalty to another person teaches us how to love - indeed, how to be more like the Savior. Our sense of belonging to one another...foreshadows our belonging in the eternal family of God. Our willingness to discipline our individual desires enough to honor [our] loved ones prepares us to belong to Him who is our Father.
Bruce C. Hafen
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Remember...
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Settling Accounts
To pay for his education, a poor boy used to sell goods from door to door. One day, the young boy found he was really hungry but had no money to buy any food. He decided to ask for something to eat when he knocked on the front door of the next house.
A beautiful young woman opened the door, and the boy lost his nerve. He simply asked for a drink of water, too embarrassed to ask for food. The young woman brought him a glass of milk, which the boy greedily drank.
The boy asked her how much he owed, but she simply smiled and said her mother had taught her to be kind to others and never expect anything in return. The young boy left the woman's home with a full tummy and a heart full of renewed strength to push on with his education and continue working hard. Just when he was ready to quit, the woman had instilled in him newfound faith and fortitude.
Years later, in a big city, renowned surgeon Dr. Howard Kelly was called to consult on a woman who was suffering from a rare disease. When the woman told him the name of the small town where she lived, Dr. Kelly felt a faint memory arise in his mind, and then suddenly recognition dawned on him. She was the woman who had given him the glass of milk many years ago.
The doctor went on to provide the woman with the very best care and made sure she received special attention. In fact, it was his skills as a doctor that saved her life. After a long and difficult hospitalization, the woman was finally ready for discharge home. The woman was worried it would take her years to settle her account with the hospital. Her serious illness and long hospital stay had produced a substantial bill. However, when she received the bill, she found that Dr. Kelly had paid the entire bill himself and written a small note for her.
The note simply stated: Paid in full with a glass of milk.
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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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