FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING FOR

LDS CHURCH MEMBERS AND LEADERS

©2008 by Donald R. Snow

• Welcome and Introduction to Class
• Kinds of Helps Available for Family History Training 
• Family History Information from the LDS Church
• Other Resources
• Assignment

• Instructors are Elder and Sister Donald R. and Diane M. Snow of the England London Mission, Hyde Park Family History Centre  ( snowd@math.byu.edu , dms34@juno.com )
• These notes with active Internet links are posted on the Utah Valley PAF Users Group website http://uvpafug.org under Class Outlines , Don's Listings , and are linked on the Hyde Park Family History Centre website  http://www.hydeparkfhc.org under Events.   Many other class notes for family history are linked on both sites also.
• This class is to learn about information and websites for family history training for LDS Church members .

• Notes, articles, checklists, screencasts (videos), interactive lessons, PowerPoint presentations
• LDS Church has produced much training material, but it is not well-known 
  • FamilySearch has many good educational materials -- see my notes about FamilySearch and Other Helps posted on http://uvpafug.org
  • Many programs, e.g. PAF, have interactive lessons built-in
• Many church members have also produced materials geared towards FH in the LDS Church
• Many good FH materials on the Internet -- some websites are shown below

• Church has produced and continutes to produce good training materials for priesthood leaders, consultants, and members
• Some LDS FH websites require registration to be able to see everything
  • Some of these sites are limited to LDS members with their membership number and confirmation date and those are checked against the Church records
  • Registrations for each of these is separate, but you can use the same password and user name (if it's not already in use there), if you want 
• Sites requiring registration to see everything
  1. http://www.familysearch.org -- Everyone can see most of this site
     • Need to register to see temple data, to upload GEDCOM's for PRF (Pedigree Resource File), and to ask questions via email
     • Education tab on LIBRARY on has lots of good FH information
  2. http://www.familysearchindexing.org -- anyone can sign up to help index digital records
  3. https://consultant.familysearch.org -- for LDS priesthood leaders and consultants to sign up to receive password for Number 4
  4. https://lds.netdimensions.com -- FH instructions for priesthood leaders and consultants; many FH training modules, some are interactive
  5. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhcdirector/ -- Family History Online Guide
     • For FHC Directors and Consultants -- FHC Director has to sign you up
     • Usually shows the most up-to-date information
  6. https://new.familysearch.org/
     • Can't sign up until it is released in your temple district
     • Has already been released in many temple districts around the world (Jan 2008) -- See map on Miles Meyer's site  
     • Suggested that members work on cleaning up their genealogy databases before New FamilySearch is released in their temple district
• Other LDS FH websites
  • http://labs.familysearch.org/ -- where they post the new products for the public to try out and comment on
  • https://wiki.familysearch.org -- for information about research; "wiki" means anyone can edit and add to it -- must register to make changes in it
  • Family History Library Favorites -- FH bookmarks for web browsers; see link to these on https://wiki.familysearch.org
  • https://help.familysearch.org/kb/Local_Support/en/Consultants/memos/en/englishmemos.html -- FH Support memos to registered consultants

• http://www.hydeparkfhc.org has helpful information under Links
• http://newfamilyhistory.googlepages.com/home -- Gary Turner's Family History Online Training Links - includes slide show of new FamilySearch concept
• http://milesmeyer.googlepages.com/ -- Miles Meyer's Family History Resources - includes map of temple districts with new Family Search
• http://uvpafug.org (Utah Valley PAF Users Group) web page, under Class Outlines, has many useful outlines and articles
• Brigham Young University has several free FH courses and materials
  • BYU Independent Study -- http://ce.byu.edu/is/
  • BYU's Online Genealogy Tutorial -- http://ce.byu.edu/is/genealogy/
  • Introduction to Family History -- http://261.byu.edu 
  • BYU's PAF Tutorial -- http://paftutorial.byu.edu/ For an alphabetical list of all of Ancestry's thousands of databases, go to http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx
• Ancestry's webpage -- http://www.ancestryinstitution.com -- under LIBRARY/SEARCH tab there is a keyword search for information -- many articles, How To's, links, etc.
• http://ohanasoftware.com/  -- see LDS Consultants, Lessons, etc.
• Randy Bryson's PowerPoint presentation of The Future of FH online at Sandra Jarvis' FH webpage
• Early draft version of LDS FH Consultants Syllabus online at Sandra Jarvis' FH webpage
• http://www.cyndislist.com/lds.htm and
• http://www.masteringfamilyhistory.com/  -- short videos on FH for Consultants and others

1. Register on some of the LDS websites for FH consultants.
2. Go to http://labs.familysearch.org/  and try some of the new processes and databases shown.
3. Read through a few of the memos sent out by FamilySearch Support to registered consultants.  (See the link above.)