August- Leaf Six- Indexing

 Leaf Six – Indexing

To create searchable digital indexes of scanned images of historical documents that are relevant

to genealogy. The documents include census records, birth and death certificates, marriage

licenses, military and property records, and other vital records maintained by local, state, and

national governments. However, to access the billions of names that appear on these images,

indexes are needed to be able to search them efficiently.

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/

To get started, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Web Indexing page Start Indexing

2. If you are not already signed in, sign in with your Church or FamilySearch Account.

3. To find a project that interests you, click Find Batches, and then click Index.

https://youtu.be/FkDfe7QDXQY

https://youtu.be/M2uHGFQsX4o

July- Leaf Five-Add a Memory, Photo or Story

 Leaf five - Add a memory (like a photo or a story)

FamilySearch Memories help you preserve the photos, stories, documents, and audio file

recordings about your ancestors. You can use memories on the FamilySearch website, in the

Family Tree, and in the FamilySearch mobile apps.

 

Steps (website)

The FamilySearch website has the most complete set of features for using Memories.

 

1. While signed in to FamilySearch, hover the mouse pointer over Memories.

2. Click Gallery, People, or Find. 

o Click Gallery to do the following:

o Upload new photos, documents, and audio files.

o Add stories about your ancestors.

o View the memories you have uploaded.

o Annotate the memories you have uploaded with titles, descriptions, and

events.

o Add tags that connect memories to people in Family Tree.

o Listen to audio files that you uploaded.

o Organize your memories into albums.

o Archive memories after you have finished annotating and tagging them.

o Like memories.

o To view personal albums for the people you tag or who are your relatives,

click People.

o To search for people, places, events, or document types, click Find.

Here’s a video https://youtu.be/XnH4kRrjjPc

There is also a specific phone app for FamilySearch memories

June - Leaf Four- Submitt A Name to the Temple

Leaf four - Submit a name for ordinance  

Find an ancestor needing temple blessings 

The following tips can help you find ancestors awaiting temple ordinances.

1. Use the FamilySearch website or the My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together booklet to

identify one or more of your ancestors missing from Family Tree.

2. Check your temple opportunities to see if you can find ancestors’ names that need ordinances

there.

3. If your direct lines seem “done,” try searching for cousins using Descendency Research.

https://www.familysearch.org/home/etb_gettingstarted

Here’s a video : https://youtu.be/mNLbmfaBN3Y

May- Leaf- Three- Add a Name to your Family Tree

 Leaf three - Add a name to the tree

Look for a missing name that needs to be added to the tree.

If your tree is already well populated, look at siblings and their spouses, look for the ancestors

of spouses as families merge through marriage.

Here’s a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwaJ4wyFrg

We are also available to help you anytime.  Give us a call:

Ron Dye 702-204-4694

Kathie Dye 702-768-2150

Special tasks for younger children

We want each family member to participate in the effort of performing family history, so we

have added tasks and leaves that are age appropriate:

1) Draw a picture of their family

2) Memorized their parent’s and grandparent’s names

3) Knows countries and states their ancestors came from

4) Looked at old photos of their family

April - Leaf Two

  April - Leaf two - Four Generations 

(you, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents)

• The key to a great start in family history is having 4 generations full in your family tree. Once you do, the first 15 people, including yourself and your parents, are accounted for. Let’s talk about three steps you can take on FamilySearch.org to ensure your first 15 is full.

  
  

  The first step is signing into FamilySearch to see if any of your first 15 are missing. It’s possible that someone, a relative, perhaps, has already added your grandparents or great-grandparents. To log in to FamilySearch, Click Sign In at the top right of the browser window and enter your username and password (follow the instructions on the page if you have forgotten this information).

  Once you have logged in, click on Family Tree in the top of the homepage. You will be prompted to enter your own information and that of your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents into Family Tree. When you link to ancestors who are deceased, FamilySearch will display many more generations back of your family already recorded in FamilySearch.

  
  

  https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/safely-gathered-generations/

March- Leaf One

   Family History Activity

Canyon Gate Ward Family Tree

March Leaf One

 Vision

“… and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven” (Matthew 16:19)

The Canyon Gate Ward Temple and Family History Plan is focused on the family and how we can further unite our families through the eternities.  Listed below is our first activity to build our ward family tree. Each month we encourage members of the ward to participate in the monthly activity. After you complete your goal for the month place your family leaf on our ward family tree located on the bulletin in the north hallway of the church.

We believe that participating each month will draw you closer to your family as well as create a greater love and desire to know and help those who have come before you.  

 March- Leaf one – Log into FamilySearch.org

To log in to FamilySearch, you will need an account. If you already have an LDS Account, you’re set—LDS Account log-ins also work on FamilySearch. If you don’t have an LDS Account yet, you can go directly to FamilySearch and create your account there.

1. Go to FamilySearch.org and click Free Account in the upper right corner of the page.
2. Follow the three-step process to create your account. You’ll be asked the usual questions, but in step 3, you’ll need your membership number. You can find your membership record number (MRN) on your temple recommend or in your directory listing in the LDS Tools mobile app. You can also ask a ward clerk or Church leader.
3. At the end of step 3, click Create an Account.

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/firststeps/

Here’s a video to help   https://youtu.be/-mIAl9zSyro  

You can also log in using the phone app “family tree”