Getting ready to put on a Family HIstory Fair?
Here are some ideas for success!
Make sure you stop the video on each slide so you can read each one and take notes.
I didn't have time to do a voice over!
I'll add more later~
In our Family History Fairs, we always added something amazing which not too many people know about. What if you could open your Family Search Tree in an app that revealed to you all of the stories and memories ever written about your family members, coordinating all with others who have joined your tree? Well, that gift was momentarily taken off the web until we complained and showed them how it could be a valuable family history asset for members as well as non-members to plant seeds of bonding with their ancestors. Now, it's back:!!!!!!
Go to this app - It will ask you to enter your FS login/password. Now Watch with amazement as the blue dots form in your tree fan. It literally turns your tree upside down and shakes out all the stories (no, not the nuts). The stories appear on the sides. Click a dot or click a story. Now here's the magic. http://stories.familyfoundapp.com
Download the stories to a Word document. Go to kdp.amazon.com and pick out a template for a small book - probably 5.06x7.81 or 6/9. Import your stories to the template - add a table of contents and page numbers. In your bibliography, make sure you note the author of the story. Print down these real paperback books from Amazon for "author's price" of 2-3.00 or Tell your Amazon Author page to your family and let them order themselves. This would be a great christmas present.
I was just reading a question on the Temple and Family History Consultants site asking about favorite maps used in family history research. More importantly, think outside the box. If you can’t find any info on your person it may be that it doesn’t exist in that point In TIME. If grandma documented the child was born in a certain state, the records won’t be in that state if it hadn’t been admitted to the union before that date.
Try this:
Look at the other parents, married city/county,older kids birth places and make a list: name, dob, city, county, state
2. Check the date of each state when it became a state at our link below:
3. Where is the most logical place for birth record?
4. Look at adjacent states and check dates. Jot them down on your grid
5. Look at county lines for shifting lines w dates
You may find that your family member was born in the state next door!
Look with an open mind. Relatives offering dates with out documents aee so well meaning but you and I know how to 
sleuth out the truth.
sleuth out the truth. Ted and Karen Meyer,
Camelback Stake TFHConsultants
Let's get your ward numbers up!
Things to Ponder: On your family history reports, here is what to look for:
Low youth numbers: most of the time the reason why the youth numbers are so low is because they don't want to re-create the wheel. They think that they have to start from scratch so they don't even want to start their own tree. What you need to do is show them that once they start their tree when they get to the first person who passed way, then all of a sudden their tree will expand exponentially and then they won't have the feeling like they're starting over from scratch. If they use their parents login, your numbers will never go up.
Converts: If you see low numbers, you should've been working with your mission leader, and TFHleader, to assign consultants to that person being taught to get them to the temple within 60 days with their own names after baptism. if you find enough names while they're being taught, then they will have enough to last them an entire year of keeping active if you don't and depend on the Ward to fellowship them, you're gonna lose them. Your Consultant is your best bet to keep them active. The Temple and Family History leader assigns them  to go to the stake center and learn more so now your convert has two people, the stake consultant and their ward consultant that they can go to the temple with the convert.
If you need a 60 -day tracker, ask me for one I have a great one.
David A Bednar told us at the 2020 Roots Tech that the First Presidency wants all converts to go to the Temple within the first 60 days after baptism with their own names.
3. # of people who printed at least one name per year. If a wife has added her husband's name to her tree with his family, so she can print down the names for the family then the husband will never be counted as someone who printed at least one name per year 
4. Young Single Adults - These numbers are usually low because they are so transitory. Many move at the end of each quarter either back to home or to a new location and ward. So if your card is only counted one time....it's not going to get counted again in the next ward.
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