South Davis Family History Center 3350 South 100 East Bountiful, Utah 84010 (801) 299-4239 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 November-December 2013 50 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE Co-sponsored by ICAPGen, UGA and BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy. Join us all day Friday and Saturday, November 8th and 9th at the Joseph F. Smith Building on the BYU campus. There will be a complimentary shuttle on Friday from the satellite parking area near the southeast corner of the football stadium - Lot 49Y. Parking on Saturday will be under the Joseph F. Smith building. The keynote speaker on Friday is Tim Cross. THE LATEST AND GREATEST IN FAMILYTREE Featured are 66 classes in 6 tracks which include accreditation preparation, methodology, internet resources, European classes, North American classes, Technology and Computer labs and demos. Registration is open now at the following website: https:// icapgenuga.eventbrite.com. Family history consultants and leaders are being offered a substantial discount. To receive the discount go to: https://icapgenuga.eventbrite.com -1-
Mark Your Calendars FEBRUARY 6-8, 2014 RootsTech 2014 Registration is now open for RootsTech 2014, which will be held at the Salt Palace SATURDAY November 9, 2013 Staff Training 9:00 AM Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. https://rootstech.org/ SATURDAY December 14, 2013 Staff Training 9:00 AM FINDING YOUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR November 12-15, 2013 Plaza Hotel-Salt Lake City, Utah In order to successfully research our Eastern European ancestors, we must first know their "village of origin". This new, personalized workshop is designed specifically to help you identify the village, then place it into geographical context in Eastern Europe. Daily one-on-one consultations, labs, more. Workshop Information and Registration http://feefhsworkshop.org/ Limited space available Thanksgiving Recess...Nov. 27-Dec 1 Winter Recess...Dec. 21-Jan 1 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day...Jan. 20 Valentines...Feb. 14 Presidents Day...Feb. 17 Spring Recess...Mar 28-Apr 1 Memorial Day...May 24-26 -2-
SOUTH DAVIS FAMILY HISTORY CENTER CLASSES 3350 South 100 East (Enter on south side by the Family History Center Sign) Phone: 801-299-4239 Class Schedule November Classes CLASS TEACHER DATE BEGINS TIME Research Series Marsha Roth Thurs. Nov. 7-Dec. 9:30 AM Ancestral Quest Marsha Roth Thurs. Nov. 7-Dec. 1:00 PM Family History Course Kathy Palmer Thurs. Nov. 7-Dec. 7:00 PM No Classes For Thanksgiving Recess November 27 Th Through Dec. 1 St December Classes CLASS TEACHER DATE BEGINS TIME Research Series Marsha Roth Thurs. Dec. 5-19 9:30 AM Ancestral Quest Marsha Roth Thurs. Dec. 5-19 1:00 PM Family History Course Kathy Palmer Thurs. Dec. 5-19 7:00 PM No Classes For Winter Recess...Dec 21 st -Jan 1 st Help is available for any of your Family History problems at the Family History Center. Our consultants are there to help you. -3-
CONSULTANT NEWS A BIG THANKS We'd like to give a big THANKS to John Dietrich who has been released as director to serve a Temple Service Mission. We want to thank him for his dedicated service, love and leadership to the Center. He will continue to take the shift along with his wife Sue on Tuesday evenings when he is home. Cindy Kingsford will be leaving as an Assitant Director. She has spent many hours as Staff Scheduler, Trainer, Center designer, Etc. We will truley miss all of her help & support. She will still be working the Wednesday 9-11 shift. as a consultant. We would also like to thank Lene Beckstead who is leaving to serve a Church Service Mission. WELCOME NEW CONSULTANTS We would like to WELCOME our new Director John Tanner. We look forward to working with him. He and his wife, Shawna, can help with any questions you might have. He is planning on visiting each shift and introducing himself and learning more about each staff member. John Tanner would like to learn more about scheduling so he will be handling any concerns or needs until he calls someone new. Please call him or Shawna at home:299-9300, cell:706-9169. e-mail: <tanner3068@yahoo.com>, We would also like to WELCOME the following to the Family History Center. Area Family History Advisors Greg and Jennifer Saylin High Counselors Bountiful East...Kyle Webb Woods Cross North...Bob Brady Consultants Dave & Claudia Detton...Tuesday 7-9 2x/month...Mueller Park 10th Mueller Park Pam Ellsworth...Monday 2-4...2x/month...Woods Cross North Woods Cross 9 Cory Gerrard... Friday 2-4...NSL Legacy -4-
CERTIFICATION CORNER THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF A FAMILY HISTORY CENTER Is To Help Members Fulfill Their Divinely Appointed Responsibility To Qualify Their Ancestors For Temple Ordinances. The Most Important Resource In A Center Is The One-On-One Assistance That Staff Provide. FAMILY HISTORY CALLINGS A collection of online resources to help you fulfill your calling https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history? Training materials and helpful resources for your family history callings LDS.org has added two new items: NEW-Assisting the Ward Council NEW-Easy Steps to: Descendancy Research Training for My Calling Select your calling below: Family History Consultant Stake and Ward Leaders Each section has a "Check your learning" and after completing the training you can print a certificate and training summary. Congratulations To The Following Consultants For Completing Their Training And Getting Their Certificates. Julie Newby... Betty Spencer...Karyl Lee Rodabough Staff members at family history centers often find themselves with no patrons to help. We encourage family history consults to reach out and help via these social networking websites as well as Family- Search s own Wiki. There is a mistaken idea that we as centers, as consultants, are not supposed to interact with societies. Not true! We have different purposes but we can help one another. Take an opportunity to turn your work inside out. Become more extraverted in helping others. -5-
Notes From Leonard Attached are presentation and handouts from Saturday mornings FHC staff meeting. Kathy showed how to find information on your family and ancestors on FamilySearch.org. I gave a summary of "CREATING THE FHC OF TOMORROW" by Elder Dennis Brimhall from last weeks FHC's Directors Open House. A great vision of the future was presented, the Church is doing some amazing things. More details are in Elder Brimhall's BYU talk on family history focusing more on HEARTS NOT CHARTS. https://www.lds.org/church/news/family-historymore-than-just-a-chart-says-managing-director-of-lds-family-history-department?lang=eng&qu ery=family+history+centers+in+the+liahona DISCOVERY THROUGH STORIES - How a 17 yr. old consultant turns the heart of a Elder's Quorum President (3 min. video) https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-05-02-this-isthe-work-of-salvation-condensed?lang=eng The MY Family booklet was passed out. This is the booklet for the 5th Sunday combined lesson. Sunday Lesson: Family History Stories https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history/ sunday-lesson?lang=eng This 35-minute lesson, intended for a combined priesthood-relief Society-youth class, demonstrates the power family stories have to turn hearts. It introduces new features of familysearch.org like the photos and stories page and a new booklet that members of all ages can use to capture the stories of their loved ones. https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-and-family-history/sunday-lesson?lang=eng CAPTURE AND PRESERVE YOUR FAMILY STORY https://familysearch.org/myfamily The My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together booklet is an engaging way to capture and preserve your family story. This booklet provides simple steps for recording family information, including adding photos, names, dates, and precious family stories. My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together. Go to store.lds.org to purchase the booklet or download a copy here. To easily enter the information from the booklet into FamilySearch Family Tree use http:\\familysearch.org/myfamily -6-
UPLOADING DOCUMENTS IN PDF FORMAT TO FAMILYSEARCH.ORG October 21, 2013 By Matt Wright UPDATES_PHOTOS-STORIES New tools now available on FamilySearch.org can help you capture family memories that can be preserved and shared for generations to come. For most families, these memories can take many forms beyond just photos and stories documents, obituaries, and audio or video files, to name a few. FamilySearch is working hard to add support for as many of these different formats as possible. A first step is a new option to upload and specify a family memory as a Document. An important part of this new designation is the ability to upload, at long last, PDF files. This new feature is now in beta on the site. Here s how it works: New option in the navigation TOOL BAR DOCUMENTS TAB The Photos and Stories navigation now contains a Documents option. Clicking this button brings you to the Add Document page. You ll notice that the Documents features are currently in a beta trial period. Once we have had a chance to test it with enough users, it will be the default experience for every user. ADD A DOCUMENT You add a document in the same way as you do a photo. When the Documents Agreement page appears, you must click the agreement box, indicating that you have read and agree to the terms of the agreement. If you do not click the agreement box you will not be able to upload a document. DOCUMENT AGREEMENT CHECK BOX After you have clicked the agreement button, you will be taken to the page that allows you to upload a document. Click Box to Enter -7-
CHANGE A PHOTO TO A DOCUMENT What if you have already uploaded photos of documents as JPEGs or PNGs on the site? You can easily change the designation of any previously uploaded item from photo to document and vice versa using the Options dialogue at the bottom right of the new image viewer (until the new viewer is live, you can access it by clicking the View image in BETA viewer button on any photo page). View Photo in Beta Viewer 2 Click the Options tag at the bottom of the image to expand the Options menu. From there, click the Change to document link. Change to Document SHARE A DOCUMENT Just as is the case with photos (and stories, albums, and a person s photos page), you can share your documents through social media or email. VIEW DOCUMENTS PDF documents on the site are opened in an Adobe Acrobat window, so navigation within the document should be familiar. You can zoom, jump from page to page, print, or save, among other features. PDF upload, and the ability to preserve documents as documents, have been some of our most frequently requested features. Give them a try, and let us know what you think. -8-
Internet Sites Worth A LOOK! FEEFHS The Federation of East European Family History Societies http://www.feefhs.org/ The Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) was organized in 1992 to promote family research in eastern and central Europe. It provides a forum for individuals and organizations focused on a single country or group of people to exchange information and be updated on developments in the field. We invite you to peruse our resource directory, map library, journals archive, event calendar, conference information, and join our e-lists and Facebook chats. THE COMMEMORATIONS FOR THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War brings with it many resources that are available to researchers on the web. One particular helpful site that is dedicated to the participants, both North and South, in the great American Civil War 1861-1865 can be found at http://www.civil-war.net/ The Civil War Home Page has one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Civil War related material available on the Internet. Their Database has thousands of Civil War related links. Enter your Search Term or Select from a Predefined Category. Another website that has Civil War resources: Civil War Soldier Search... A Guide to Research Resources http://www.civilwarsoldiersearch.com/ internet-research-sources.html. Take advantage of the many resources now on the web. 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 us @ 801-299-4239.???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 -9-