Find-Take-Teach Moments

The new form "Helping Others to Love Family History" helps consultants have meaningful F-T-T sessions.  By obtaining the Helper Number and username before meeting with those who are new to descendency research, the consultant can quickly guide a patron to a Green Temple Icon where ordinance work is needed.  The pathway to discover the icon with no duplicates or data problems is recorded in the lesson plan under "What to do in Family Tree".  After the lesson the form can be left with the patron so they can see the relationship to the person that is ready for Temple work.  This form is now available on this blog under the training tab at the right.

Alayne Favreau and Susan Aston of the Hermosa Vista Stake recently shared a Find-Take-Teach moment.

A Big Thanks goes to all those who indexed during the Worldwide Indexing Event July 15-17.  Number of participants were 116, 475 which surpassed the original target of 72,000!

FamilySearch: Individuals of Unusual Size (IOUS) Can Now Be Merged

In the past, the Family Tree system had some limitations in merging duplicate records that had been merged many times. These were sometimes referred to as Individuals of Unusual Size or IOUS, because of the many pieces of data that had previously been merged. With the upgrade of the Family Tree system, the limitation is now gone so these large duplicate records can be merged. 

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On the FamilySearch Family Tree mobile app, you can now add and edit “Other Information” such as an alternate name, military service, naturalization, and residence. This will let you provide more details and improve the quality of information for your ancestors.

1. Tap Add Other Information
2. Tap the type of information you want to add or edit.
3. Tap Edit to add or edit the information.                                                                                                         Some of the other information you can add is listed below:

To view the complete What's New Blog Click here

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Do you have a direct relative that served in World War II?  Do you know that you can obtain their military records and metals that they earned during the war.  Check out this site!

Grandma’s Pie: A Fun Visual App from BYU

Described as a “visualization tool that allows you to see where your ancestry is from at a glance,” Grandma’s Pie “organizes your FamilySearch tree data in pie chart format in order to give valuable insight about your ancestors’ origins.”

Grandma’s Pie shows the countries of up to seven generations. It is color coded and charts the percentages of the user’s known ancestry by country. For example, in my husband’s case, 59 percent are from England, 25 percent are from the United States, some are from the British Isles, a few are from France, and, yes, a few are from Estonia.

See the complete blog Click Here

Learn about Find-a-grave, the Closest Thing to Being There  Click Here

DPLA and FamilySearch Partner to Expand Access to Digitized Historic Books Online

In concert with the American Library Association national conference in Orlando, Florida, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users including genealogists, researchers, family historians, students, and more.

Family history/genealogy continues to be a popular and growing hobby. And FamilySearch is a leader in the use of technology to digitally preserve the world’s historic records and books of genealogical relevance for easy search and access online. With this new partnership, DPLA will incorporate metadata from FamilySearch.org’s online digital book collection that will make more than 200,000 family history books discoverable through DPLA’s search portal later this year. From DPLA, users will be able to access the free, fully viewable digital books on FamilySearch.org.  

See Complete Blog Here

New Added Features to FamilySearch Memories

There is now an easier way to upload photos into memories.  On the photo page you will now see upload buttons.  Check out what else is new: learn more

Family History Events to put on the calendar

Family Discovery Days:

     August 6----Tempe Stake, 1871 E. Del Rio, 9 am to 11:30 am

     September 17--Alta Mesa and Red Mountain Stakes, 5350 E. McLellan Road. 8 am to 12 noon
     check out the web page register here

Mesa FamilySearch Library's Family History Conference is coming on October 29th

     This free Conference will be held at the ASU Institute Building again.  Registration is required            and will start in September--more information will be coming.

Roots Tech to be held in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City on February 8-11.  Registration starts September 15th.

If you have an event that you would like to put on the Calendar, send an email to edithhaws_560@msn.com.

The Mesa FamilySearch Training Center reopens on August 1st after being closed the month of July.
     Address:  464 E. 1st Ave, Mesa    
     Hours of Operation:  Monday 9am to 5pm

                                    Tuesday through Friday  10am to 6pm
     Consultant classes will resume in September
     A four week Genealogy Crash Course for small groups            (4-8) can be scheduled on Wednesdays 7 to 8:30 pm.