South Davis Family History Center

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1 South Davis Family History Center 3350 South 100 East Bountiful, Utah (801) Hours of Operation Weekdays: Mon. thru Fri. 9 AM to 4 PM Evenings: Tues. thru Thurs. 7 PM to 9 PM Saturdays 10 AM -1 PM Closed Holidays July-August 2013 All of us are born with a natural desire to believe that there is a God in Heaven. Our contact with the world and worldly influences can, over time, diminish that belief and our inherent desire to know Him. Similarly, we are also born with an inherited desire to connect with our ancestors and our roots. Even the ancient philosopher Cicero understood the need to relate to our ancestors when he wrote, "Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history" Our work provides a legacy and a depth of purpose for future generations, as our lives are woven into the lives of the ancestors who brought us to where we find ourselves today. The stories and the photographs that we preserve for our own posterity will provide them with the threads that they will use to weave their own stories into the tapestry of the eternal family. John Dietrich -1-

2 Mark Your Calendars July 30-August 2, 2013 The 44th annual BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy will offer more than 100 Saturday July 13th & August 10th 9-10 AM STAFF TRAINING CLASSES "Who Do You Think You Are?" Premieres July 23 on TLC 19 Aug August 10th 2013 BYU CAMPUS EDUCATION WEEK Register Now~Online Registration Closes: 17 Aug Saturday, September 14, 2013 Save the date for the FHC Staff Dinner classes, allowing participants to gain new skills and helpful information. The conference will be in the BYU Conference Center (770 East University Parkway, Provo, Utah). $50 Registration Discount for Family History Consultants. Saturday, September 14, OGDEN FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE Weber State University "Of Roots and Branches". Come learn about new tools and techniques to search the roots and explore the branches of your family tree. There will be information about Scanning, Composing and Printing a Family History, Smart Phone Family History, Saturday June 29-Monday July 8 4th of July Week July Pioneer Days August 31-September 2 Labor Day Converting Old Tape Recordings, and many other helps. "Young folks, old folks, everybody come " Come join the conference and you'll have a lot of fun all day Saturday, Be sure to visit our web site at org/learn/wiki/en/ogden_familysearch_library/conference for up to date details. -2-

3 SOUTH DAVIS FAMILY HISTORY CENTER CLASSES 3350 South 100 East (Enter on south side by the Family History Center Sign) Phone: Class Schedule Family History Center Closed July 1-6 th Staff Training 9-10AM Staff Dinner September Classes Family History Center Closed July th will begin starting September 11th. Watch for further notices of class schedules at How to Research part1 9:30 AM Family Tree part2 9:30 AM Family Tree part3 9:30 AM Find My Past 9:30 AM Fold3 9:30 AM Staff Training 9-10AM the Family History Center toward the end of August. Leonard Plaizier will teach Legacy 8 classes on Wednesday evenings after the new release is available. Marsha Roth's Research Classes will continue on Thursday mornings starting September 12th from 9:30-10:30 AM. Kathy Palmer will teach the 16 week Consultant Training Series on Thursday evenings starting September 12, 7-8 PM. Other classes will also be added later. IMPORTANT NOTE: Our Family History Consultants will be available during open hours to help you with hands on training.

4 CONSULTANT NEWS WELCOME NEW CONSULTANTS We Would Like To Welcome New Consultants John Wilcox...North Canyon, North Canyon 6 Karyl Lee Rodabough...Woods Cross North, Woods Cross 6 Shanna Bills...Bountiful East, Bountiful 23rd Megan Jorgensen...Foxboro 5th Ward, NSL Legacy Stake Sally Montgomery...Foxboro 5th Ward, NSL Legacy Stake We would like to Thank Richard and Luan Hixson for thier service to the Center. If you missed the Staff Training Meeting on June 8, 2013, the handout will be posted under the Consultant News button to help you learn how to fix some of the problems in FAMILY TREE. FAMILY HISTORY CALLINGS A collection of online resources to help you fulfill your calling ONE FAMILY AT A TIME From FamilySearch Wiki Research is usually more successful when you work on an entire family group (father, mother and all children). Important clues about an individual are found in his relationships to his family. Community and family context helps us correlate and corroborate data, or reveals inconsistencies. Often it is only by learning about brothers or sisters that you can prove parentage. Experienced genealogists recognize the importance of completing work on an entire family before moving to a different family. It may even help to work on clusters of families that married into each other. Research works better on an entire family group. If researching two or more families would move you toward your overall quest, start with the family that is already the best documented and has the most complete event places and dates. Leave the families with less well documented events, or events with vague places or dates until later. A good research goal is to complete genealogical research and document each event on a selected family group record. -3-

5 FROM THE BOOKSHELF The Life Of Charlotte Ann Hillstead Bates, born in Hull, England on 31 Dec Her parents are John Blakey Hillstead and Charlotte Gray. Her husband is Myton Bates. This is a wonderful biography, written by Charlotte covering her entire life. It includes her growing up years, the births of her brothers and sisters. Her fathers occupations and his teachings. She tells of experiences both good and bad, both uplifting and heartbreaking. She tells of the families conversion to the gospel and their journey to Zion. This would be a priceless treasure to the family of this wonderful woman. I would be delighted to give it to a family member. The Second Biography Is Of Ormus Ephraim Bates, written by his great granddaughter Ruth Elizabeth Bates Child. Ormus was the son of Cyrus Bate and Lydian Harrington, he was born in Ellisberg, New York on 25 March This is a delightful biography covering his life as a Mormon pioneer. It tells of his wife, Phoebe Mariah Matteson, and their children. He was a devoted member of the church and experienced the persecution of Missouri and Nauvoo. He helped with the immigration of people from Council Bluffs, Iowa and helped outfit the wagon train and handcart companies. He married Morilla Spink in 1844 and Matilda Reeves in He and his families migrated to Utah in 1851 in the Williams Cummings company. After arriving in Utah they continued on to the westward point of the Oquirrh mountains and built a fort and ranch for the families to live on. They were in constant threat of being attacked by Indians, so the fort provided the protection they needed. He left the ranch and fort to serve a mission in 1860 and served with Orson Pratt in the Eastern States. He continued to help with the immigration of the saints and organized many companies from Florence, Nebraska. The biography tells of some funny pioneer stories and insights into the character of Ormus. This is a interesting and well written biography and would be a great addition to the Family History of the Bates family. The Family Tree ID numbers for Charlotte Ann Hillstead Bates is KWNK-FQX and her husband is KWNK-FQF. You can link to Ormus from her page. Thanks Kathy Palmer -4-

6 Do any of these items belong to you? We have a number of items that have been left at the FHC that we'd like to give back to their owners. We also have a number of papers that were left in the printers, research notes, also a folder with documents for John & Anna Mann, etc. IF ANY OF THESE ITEMS BELONG TO YOU, PLEASE PICK THEM UP AT THE FHC. This pack rat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage. -Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe -5-

7 PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE (PAF) IS DISCONTINUED June 20, 2013 By David Pugmire Beginning July 15, 2013, PAF will be retired and will no longer be available for download or support. PAF users should consider alternative products to meet their ongoing personal genealogy management needs. For full details and for information on alternative products, please visit A Great New Opportunity PAF began in 1984, has had over 3.2 million copies distributed, and has fulfilled a great purpose for the world. At the same time that we give a big Thank You! and Goodbye to PAF, we are excited to embrace what the future holds! For the last several years, FamilySearch has focused on building relationships with partner organizations to deliver better overall services to the market. This has facilitated better patron experiences with FamilySearch and the partner products. FamilySearch recently introduced the Family Tree to all users in multiple languages. Family Tree provides the capability for patrons to manage and share their family history information online at FamilySearch.org. Each of our partners products support connectivity with the Family Tree. FamilySearch is committed to strong partner relationships that enable more quality, choices, collaboration, and availability of records. We encourage our patrons to use the products provided by these partners. FamilySearch has worked hard to offer upgrades to all PAF users through partners that have produced significantly better alternatives to PAF. Please visit for details, and get started with your upgrade today! Guidelines For Patrons When working with ward members, please encourage them to visit and help them get started in migrating to one of the recommended products. It is appropriate and encouraged to host events or train patrons on how to migrate to the various products, discuss the advantages, and allow them to make their own choices. When using church buildings and resources for these activities, please remember not to solicit sales or exclusively promote only a specific product to patrons, because we must maintain a neutral position while providing informative guidance to them. Also, third parties must abide by these guidelines if their employees or representatives are invited to participate in the activities in person or by phone or web conference. Significant investment has been made to bring FamilySearch-certified products developed by partners to our patrons, and your help in moving patrons forward on a journey inclusive of our full offering of third-party solutions, within appropriate bounds, is much appreciated. For the full story, see the main FamilySearch blog. -6-

8 Internet Sites Worth A LOOK! leaf Which ancestor should I work on? This new program helps you focus your genealogy by finding the leaves in your tree that need your attention. The leaf web site is a free service provided through the BYU Open Source Lab. They are currently in the process of developing additional free family history software, including an ipad and Android tablet application to help teens become involved in genealogy, using some of the technology we have developed with leaf. The site works within the FamilyTree site at FamilySearch. Since FamilyTree has been opened to the general public, this means leaf is also open to the general public. A new descendants chart that shows three generations of descendants at once -- a couple, their children (and spouses), and their grandchildren. User interface to make it easier to navigate. There are popup-boxes if you click on any person in the ancestor or descendant chart, and from this popup you can use a small menu to view that person's ancestry, profile, descendancy, or search. This is a new program and concept that works and searches within the Family Tree. They are continually improving this site and adding other new programs. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THIS SITE PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES If you're interested in Pennsylvania history and want information relating to historical events, facts about ancestors, or original documents to support a research paper, the Pennsylvania Archives is an important publication to explore. This series contains essential records relating to one of America's earliest colonies, from 1664 to 1780, including military, tax, marriage, and land records, as well as documents from American history covering the Revolutionary War and the Whiskey Rebellion

9 15 East North Temple Salt Lake City, UT CHURCH HISTORY LIBRARY The Church History Library collects materials by or about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members. These materials come from a wide spectrum of sources and represent numerous points of view. The public can access many historical materials in a large, open library area, while other materials are located in archival storage rooms and can be brought to a secure reading room upon request by a patron. The Church History Department is committed to making its records available to the public to the extent it can reasonably do so without compromising those that are sacred, confidential, private, or otherwise restricted for legal or ethical reasons. Find Items Relating To The History Of The Church: Go to the Church History Catalog to search for Church history content from several different libraries combined to one location. primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=chl_public Looking for your Pioneer Ancestors? This is a wonderful place to find journals, pictures, and other articles devoted to the LDS Church History. You can get a digitized copy by request of many pioneers. Ever wonder how to preserve your mission photographs, or your grandfather s journal, or great-grandmothers wedding dress? Try asking the Church History Conservators! Click on the link below to send them a personal question. They will respond via . HELP WANTED We need you to serve at the South Davis Family History Center. We will teach you what is required so that you can do your Family History and help others with theirs. If you have a love of Family History & enjoy being around people, we need your HELP! We will train you. You keep the Blessings! Please contact ???Q & A??? If you have any Comments, Ideas, or Questions that you d like to see addressed in the newsletter please let us know. If you would like to have the newsletter sent to you, please contact Shonny Russell at: johnrussell3308@ msn.com -8-