Class Descriptions

Class Schedule

========================================================================

Getting Started with Family Search - Amy Heath

Navigation essentials and more! Learn the basics of logging in to the Family Search website and view your personal home page. Learn about your temple list and how it works. Learn easy ways to attach sources to your ancestor’s person page. Learn how to download the Family Search app and other apps for Family History on your phone and use the new Map Your Ancestors feature.

========================================================================

Preserving Family Memories - Don Kussee

Use Family Search Memories to learn about your ancestors and make them come to life. Provide others the opportunity to benefit from what you have learned. Learn how to add pictures, stories and documents so that others can also know, and become interested.

Handout - Family Memories

========================================================================

Finding Your Cousins! - Clydie Wakefield & Mary Dollahite

Learn various strategies for discovering your cousins needing temple work. 1. Explore pathways to discover new cousins, your fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-cousins who are descendants of your 6-8 great grandparents needing ordinances, using Puzzilla.com and Ancestry.com in addition to Family Search. 2. Use applications such as "Find a Record" to discover cousins who are in Family Search but lacking ordinances. You will be amazed!

========================================================================

Digging Past the Headstones - Marilyn Thomsen

Discover your ancestors in cemeteries! After finding a headstone - or not finding a headstone, dig a little deeper to uncover more about your ancestors.  Learn methods for using online sites, phones and yes - even snail mail - to dig up the dirt on your family.

Handout - Digging Past the Headstones

========================================================================

After They Die: Ancestor's Probate, Land and Taxes - Marilyn Thomsen

Settling the estate, dispersing the property and paying the last taxes is something even your poor farmer's family had to do. Whether they lived in 2018 or 1100 AD these records can be the bread crumb trail to lost family. Learn to use new online probate, land and tax records and why it’s worth cutting through governmental red tape.

Handout - Probate, Land and Taxes

========================================================================

Assisting Families and Friends with Family History - Sam Fletcher

How can we help our families, extended families, and friends learn and enjoy family history? One answer is to use the principles of Find Take Teach. The new FamilySearch Consultants Portal helps consultants, parents, grandparents, home teachers, ward mission leaders, and other organization heads be more successful at helping others achieve their family history goals. 

========================================================================

Fast & Accurate Research|Family Search - Van Ceyala

Time is of the essence. Most people are barely scratching the surface on how to use FamilySearch. I will show you how to quickly and accurately find the information you need without spending hours of wasted time. You don't need to be a professional genealogist to get professional results using these tips and tricks.

Handout - Family Search

========================================================================

Fast & Accurate Research|Google Helps - Van Ceyala

I will show you how to stop wasting time in your Google searches. Most people give up on Google searches because they never find what they want. I will give you the tools to make your searches lightning fast, and accurate.

Handout - Google Helps

========================================================================

Fast & Accurate Research|Genealogy Websites - Van Ceyala

I will teach you how to use affiliates and other websites to find "hidden information" that's free and at your fingertips. I will show you hundreds of names to take to the temple today.

Handout - Genealogy Websites

========================================================================

1-2-3 Paleography: Tips for Analyzing Handwritten Records - Kirstin Workman

This class will help you learn the skills of reading old handwriting. Through tactics and methodology you will be able to decipher even the toughest of documents! Feel free to bring copies of challenging handwriting family documents to class!

========================================================================

Youth Class: Find a Name for the Temple - Sam Fletcher & Jeff Meyers

This class is designed to provide a brief overview of Family Search and one-on-one assistance for youth who would like to find their first name to take to the temple!

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

========================================================================