General Conference earlier this month was amazing. Such a great theme of temple work, ministering and changes in the quorums of the priesthood. Which also means that the High Group Leader is no longer the presiding priesthood over the ward temple and family history consultants. We now have the Elder's quorum presidency that is over us. Please keep in mind that we may not get the attention we need at the beginning as they get used to their new responsibilities.
The Family History Guide is your go-to for learning how to use FamilySearch Family Tree, Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com and many others. It will also help with your research. In the next post, I will share with you more info regarding this website but keep it in mind in your own personal training and those that you help. A great resource.
BYU Family History Library YouTube channel. This is a gold mine of information. There are tutorials or webinars from their library on how to use the many websites we use for research and for our callings. These videos are uploaded weekly with new content. Make sure you click on 'Playlists' for a more organized version of all their videos. Pay attention to when the videos were uploaded so you know you will have the latest information.
LDS.org has updated their family history pages. The old ones are still there but we need to use the new pages located HERE. Or if you go to lds.org click on 'Families and Individuals' and then click on Family History. That is the easiest way besides bookmarking the page. The new page has been refreshed and looks great. I would get used to this new page and be familiar with it. I am sure it will be updated frequently.
Family History Support for your calling and for members needing help when we aren't available. This is not for research help, but mostly temple ordinance questions and website help with Family Tree. 1-866-406-1830. Easy number to remember, it is the day the church was organized.
There was a question asked on how much do we meet with members? It was suggested that we meet with them quarterly. I was thinking about that and I think it needs to much more than that. And it may need to be as much as the member needs until they get on their feet and feel comfortable navigating around. Remember, we can share with them The Family History Guide website and they can complete self-guided training by following the training schedule that is on the website. (Again, I will cover this in another post.) With that in mind, we do need to keep our skills up and learn new ones. I will forever talk about The Family History Guide as the go to resource to learn/teach new research techniques, learning how to navigate on most of the family history websites and to keep up with what is new.
That will be it for this blog post. There were other items that were discussed in our last meeting but some of the topics deserve their own blog post. So I will be posting those shortly.
Enjoy,
Jill
Family History Support for your calling and for members needing help when we aren't available. This is not for research help, but mostly temple ordinance questions and website help with Family Tree. 1-866-406-1830. Easy number to remember, it is the day the church was organized.
There was a question asked on how much do we meet with members? It was suggested that we meet with them quarterly. I was thinking about that and I think it needs to much more than that. And it may need to be as much as the member needs until they get on their feet and feel comfortable navigating around. Remember, we can share with them The Family History Guide website and they can complete self-guided training by following the training schedule that is on the website. (Again, I will cover this in another post.) With that in mind, we do need to keep our skills up and learn new ones. I will forever talk about The Family History Guide as the go to resource to learn/teach new research techniques, learning how to navigate on most of the family history websites and to keep up with what is new.
That will be it for this blog post. There were other items that were discussed in our last meeting but some of the topics deserve their own blog post. So I will be posting those shortly.
Enjoy,
Jill
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