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, London 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 London 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 many good training materials, but they are not well-known
  • FamilySearch has several good educational parts -- see my notes about FamilySearch and Other Helps posted on http://uvpafug.org
  • Most programs, e.g. PAF and new FamilySearch, have interactive lessons built-in
• LDS Church members also produce lots of materials geared towards FH in the LDS Church
• Lots of good FH materials on the Internet -- some websites are shown below

• Church has produced and continues to produce 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 -- the log in information is checked against the Church records to verify they are Church members
  • Registrations for each of these is separate, but you can use the same password and user name (if has not already been selected by someone else), if you want
• Sites requiring registration
  1. http://www.familysearch.org -- can see all data on this site without registering, except for the temple ordinances data
     • To see temple data you need your LDS membership number and confirmation date and an email address
     • To upload GEDCOM's to Pedigree Resource File (PRF) and to ask questions via email you need to register
     • Library/Education tab 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 sign up when it has been released in your LDS temple district
     • Has already been released in more than half of the approximately 140 temple districts in the world (Sep 2008) -- See map on Miles Meyer's site
     • Members get ready for new FamilySearch by working on cleaning up their genealogy databases before it is released in their temple district
• Other LDS FH websites
  • https://wiki.familysearch.org -- this is now the most important site for FH information on FamilySearch
    • "wiki" means anyone can add to or edit it, but to change it you must register first
    • Can view everything on it without registering
    • Already includes all the FH Library research outlines, resource guides, word lists, letter writing guides, etc.
  • http://labs.familysearch.org/ -- new products for public to try out and comment on
    • Record Search for the indexes and images from FamilySearch Indexing
      • Also linked on http://www.familysearch.org
    • FamilySearch Family Tree -- online genealogy program to store your data; shows data from new FamilySearch now
    • Pedigree Viewer -- can upload a GEDCOM with many generations and view it all
  • Family History Library Favorites (FH websites) -- see link on http://www.londonfhc.org/ under Links
  • https://help.familysearch.org/kb/Local_Support/en/Consultants/memos/en/englishmemos.html -- shows the FH Support memos that have been sent to all registered FH consultants

• 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://www.hydeparkfhc.org has helpful information under Links
• http://uvpafug.org (Utah Valley PAF Users Group) web page, under Class Outlines -- see Don's listings for many FH notes
• 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/
• Ancestry's webpage -- http://www.ancestryinstitution.com -- under Learning Center there is a keyword search for any FH terms to find 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 out 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.)