Consultant Best Practices that we have seen!

In this blog, we are answering a request from some of our Stake High Counselors for our training in the form of the BEST PRACTICES FOR CONSULTANTS Index.  This way, your consultants can start where they feel comfortable and learn the one on one, Spirit Led, Heart to Heart, Spirit-led experience with a friend or their OWN consultant

A few of the links have been updated since 9-1-2019
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FAMILY HISTORY IN YOUR WARD?

Family History in the Ward

Date: October 11, 2019 – last update

Facilitator: Ted and Karen Meyer, Area Temple and Family History Consultants

Arizona Scottsdale Coordinating Council

Ppt		To Whom Do I Report? (2) for Consultants	Consultants
6 minute video		Temple and Family History Leaders Make sure you watch this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Iu-1ltec4	Bishop, EQ President, EQ Counselor over Family History, Temple and Family History Leader
Ideas for Consideration
1hr FS Video		Leadership Meeting of RootsTech 2019	ALL Temple and Family History Ward Members
slide		Developing a Ward Family History Plan Elder Renlund stressed Plan 1 – with a Temple and Family History Leader.
Excel wkbk		New Annual Ward Family History Planner -Ideas for Auxiliaries for Family History Events with links to Family Search. Leaders can fill in plans, numbers and dates of possible events to prevent overlapping or aiding in planning and including other factions of ward.  Quarterly data rolls to an Annual Report.  Easy to send to Stake HC over FH Quarterly	Bishop
Video/deck		How to Use the Ward Annual Family History Planner Simple explanation of how to use the workbook – just an idea to consider	Leaders
Excel Wkbk		New Improved tool – PREPARING TO GO TO THE TEMPLE WITH REPORT FOR CORRELATION – WORKS WITH ANY AUX – EQ, RS, YW, YM 10-11-2019 Please download to your desktop – then save there – not on the onedrive – rename as your Ward Aux name.  Thanks.	EQ, RS, YW, YM, Counselors over Family History
Excel wkbk		Preparing to go to the Temple with report for Correlation	Bishop, EQ President, EQ Counselor over Family History, Temple and Family History Leader
Excel wkbk		Relief Society Counselor – handout, tracker, report	Relief Society Counselor
Video/deck		Take Me to Your Leader A visual of the calling as compared side by side with handbook2.	Bishop, EQ President, EQ Counselor over Family History, Temple and Family History Leader
Handbook2		Assigning Consultants to Work at the Stake as Needed Ward Structure “Under the direction of the bishop, works with the elders quorum presidency to assign consultants to serve in the family history center as needed”.	Temple and Family History Leader
Internet Link		Example of Signupgenius – free, organized, classes at Stake You will have to enter signups by:  naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com to see how we do it.
2		Ward Temple and Family History Consultant Job Description	All
3		A.   What Every Consultant Needs to Know	Beg
4		B.    How do I begin as a Ward Consultant?	Beg
		C.   Links that go with most decks	Beg
		D.   How can I make a Difference?	Beg
		Training without Manuals
5		E.    What is a Consultant Flip Chart or Cheat Sheet?   Updated 10-5-2019	All
6		First Meeting as a Consultant (Consultant Flip Chart)	All
7		Certificate for reaching my Goals as a Consultant	Option
8		Utilizing the Consultant Planner as a Resource	All Consultants
		One on One, Spirit-led, Heart to Heart Family History Experience
9		Consultant One on One Training 9-28-2019	All Consultants
		Using Partner Access as a Research Tool
10		·         Everything you have Ever Wanted to Know about Partner Access ·         What investigators and members can and cannot do​ ·         How to get an investigator a free account​ ·         How YOU get partner access – How YOU help investigators and neighbors with your own Ancestry account. ​ ·         How to fix a converts account to make it an LDS Member’s account​ ·         How to export a convert’s tree from your account (GEDCOM file) ​ ·         How to Link an Ancestry account to an LDS account​ ·         Mistakes and Errors codes and how to fix them​ ·         How Partner access will help you save time and increase accuracy​	All members
		Troubleshooting – being able to look at a fan chart and immediately find opportunities for change and success
10B		Troubleshooting in the Planner – Just a Heads up!
11		Training Ward Leaders on Family History with their Calling	Leaders
Handbook2		M 5.1.6 Members and Full-Time Missionaries Working Together	All Members
12	How do You Fit into the Ward Family History Puzzle? Identifies roles each member plays with converts and proven suggestions for convert retention  – shows brief intro to Partner Access, available to all members,  Consultant Planner now called Helper Resource, available to all members.  Briefly introduces Primary Training of Leaders available if requested		All Members
		Reserving Names – discusses two ways plus the hazards of name hoarding.
13		How do I Reserve a Name?– shows overview of 2 ways and the limits each has	Beginning
14		Ordinance Ready	Using Mobile Device
15		Green Temples	All Consultants
		Helping New Converts with Setting up FS or Ancestry Account
16		I Built my Tree in Ancestry…now what?
17		How to sign up a 10, 11 or 12-year-old for Family Search
		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSHuK_bH6SQ

Ask us about

YSA Activities,  Escape Room Family History Games, Board Game Plans to create and play

Primary Leaders

Training Primary Leaders to work with 10-11 year olds on Family History,

Combining the talents of the Youth with Family History

Young Women and Young Men and People being taught, Converts and Elderly

Explanation of Area Advisers

             Our chief job is to advise Stake Presidents with what we have gleaned from meetings in Salt Lake so that the Priesthood Line of authority can disseminate the information down through the ranks.   We help their Stakes and Wards when asked to help train on Family History or even give talks about it.  Each Stake President and Bishop is given the power to decide what is best for their people.  Our Area has adopted the "One Work" practice of working with family history and missionary work to ensure retention of converts.  Our whole training and Mission President support this effort and it is a success here.  It is never our intent to try to change the vision or your own leaders.  Our Family Search adviser asked me to explain this.  We don’t want any complaints against us and are concerned that we might hurt feelings or appear to be encroaching on someone else’s territory.  That is not our intent.

           Thank you so much for visiting our blog which we created for our 7 Stakes to make it easier for their people to learn to feel confident as Consultants.  We see that others are learning how consultants can make their job so much easier and effective by analyzing their patron’s tree and if this has been helpful to you, we are glad.    If you aren’t in our area, we need to let you know that your first choice for help is:

1.  your local spiritual Priesthood holder, i.e, Home teacher,
2.  Temple and Family History Leader, or
3.  Counselor under the Elders' Quorum President over Family History, or
4. Your Bishop.
5. Then for additional assistance, please read the "My Callings" pages on Family Search.
6.  You can also call Family Search Support at 1 866 406 1830 or join the communities.familysearch.org for Ward or Stake Consultants.

        We  always need to follow protocol to get help for you by having your leaders speak with your Area Consultants.   We don’t want to do anything which would appear inappropriate, and it is difficult to discern that we could get into trouble for helping others who are not under the purview of our calling, but our only intent is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the Power of Family History.  If you are confident that no one would be upset by our helping you, as long as you contact us and you have tried all other sources, to no avail, maybe that would be ok because we are all just trying to do good in the world.                                                                                                            

      Who said Genealogy is just for Old Folks!?

There is this ugly rumor that only old people can do genealogy...

The only part of that which is true is that yes,  once you get past a certain age where you are more comfortable in your reclining chair with your laptop than on a treadmill...you find one amazing thing then another...and it becomes addicting.   It's almost like you've been bitten by this bug that causes you to get excited over the smallest discovery!  

We are finding that since the Prophet asked that 10-11-year-olds be trained, they are getting excited over finding their ancestors just like we are.  Who knew?  Genealogy beats out Disney Descendants? Awesome!  

Because 11-year-olds go into Young Womens' and Young Mens' organizations at 11 now instead of 12, it's time we found something to show these 10 years olds, so we came up with a game called 20 Ways to Gather Israel.   The pictures are fun to look at and match, they learn which things are about purity, the courage to try to learn, and service to others.

It is absolutely Free - you just have to cut it out and put it together.  

Here is the link to the final version - (I know!  I'm sorry!  I sent out a few for you to try but we polished this up a little and made the directions more clear!) So you will need this version:

9/25/2019   https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Pk1wrPQXw2DRLOsDE?e=qTFED6

              It's time to peel grandma out of her chair and help her do some research!  Such fun!

LOOKING FOR A FUN FAMILY NIGHT GAME?  

"20 Ways to Gather Israel"

A FHC FRIENDLY TOOL - FUN FOR MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS - EVERYONE CAN LEARN SOMETHING NEW ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY

iT'S NOT JUST FOR OLD FOLKS ANYMORE~

Here are some pictures of us Playing the Game last night!

https://www.facebook.com/naswfamilyhistory/videos/2178090899154670/?t=6

Until Next month.....keep smiling - keep doing what you do and find someone amazing in the past to get to know!  Find out where you get your artistic talent from!  Where do you get your singing ability from?  Find out about their lives and learn something to enhance yours!