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ZOOM FROM LAST NIGHT PDF FROM LAST NIGHT POWERPOINT SO YOU CAN TEACH THIS TO YOUR WARD View this email in your browser How to put Christ at the Center of your Temple worship… Suggestions for Successful Worship Begin your day with prayer: to help you put aside the attempts the adversary will try to defeat your goal of going to the temple.   Before you leave home, let Father know how important this is to you:   Just know, that as you enter the HOV lane, someone is going to cut you off, but you do not respond in anger and you are not deterred.  Just know that as you leave the toddler with the babysitter, who just poured a whole box of fish food into the bowl, she has the ability to clean it so you can leave.  On this day, nothing can sway you from your Covenants with the Lord.  You are doing great! When you arrive, say a prayer : before you leave your car make sure you are in tune with the feelings which are appropriate for Temple Worship.  This will clear your mind of any negative or confusing thoughts.   When you get dressed: study the name of the person on your card, and reflect on the ordinance that is provided to you for the redeeming of the dead. We study their lives before we leave using history and their timeline to appreciate all that they endured for us to be here today.   When you perform the ordinance: picture Christ embracing them in your mind. These thoughts are from the Leadership Meeting from Rootstech 2023 We never pick and choose favorites on a whim.  No one is exempt from receiving the blessings of the temple.  We should baptize all of our ancestors and with forgiveness in our hearts, should they have wronged us prior to death, we need to baptize them regardless.  They can choose to accept it or not, and they may have had a change of heart as well.  The Lord said, “10 I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you, it is required to forgive all men.” - Doctrine and Covenants 64:10.  Give that some thought if you have ever said the words, “I refuse to do her work.” All through our lives, we make covenants with the Lord.  Sometimes we have to rededicate our hearts to those promises knowing that when we do our part, He has no recourse but to do His. If we are doing work for them and forgetting to document our families' lives while they are still here, won’t that make it harder once they are gone? If they are here, they can help us find the answers to questions we have.  Do we have their life story written and recorded voices and videos NOW for their posterity?  Have we preserved their stories?  Think of this as you re-read the Prophet’s words above, that “…Any time we do anything  that helps anyone on either side of the veil  to make and keep their Covenants with God, we are helping to gather Israel.” When we go to the temple to do the work we have covenanted with the Lord to do, there is always a thought, “That ancestor is pleased with me because I was obedient and did work that he cannot do while I am on this earth.”  Perhaps our first thought should be, “Christ is pleased with me because I obeyed the Covenants we made to help others on both sides of the veil.” Join us on June 10 at 5 pm for our Zoom.  We would love to hear your thoughts of what we have discussed here.  Perhaps you can enlighten others who are listening and empower them to dedicate themselves to the covenants they have made! Putting Christ at the Center of your Temple Worship Saturday, June 10⋅5:00 – 6:00pm Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83034803502?pwd=bEtQdUJKZ1BYQWx5OVQyaXhid2NXQT09 notes Description:Ted and Karen Meyer, naswfamilyhistory.blogspot.com ARE inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83034803502?pwd=bEtQdUJKZ1BYQWx5OVQyaXhid2NXQT09Meeting ID: 830 3480 3502Passcode: 2ZNTFY Copyright (C) 2023 NASWFamilyHistory. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe

America's Secret - Insane Asylums of the 18th Century - our next Zoom call for June 2021

 

America's Secret - Insane Asylums of the 18th century

We often have someone who was in our family tree, suddenly disappear without a trace of a death certificate.  From 1820 to about 1910, many people were sent to these "hospitals" without the benefit of a diagnosis from a medical doctor.  If they were "greedy", "cantankerous", "cranky", "spoke out of turn", "talked back to their parents", any strange reason for not being able to take care of a family member...could land them in an Insane Asylum.  Sometimes, as in Independence, MO., the asylum was also the jail until the jail was built.  There was no exit card...no way to get out unless someone came and got you, or you passed away in the facility.  There are cemeteries on some of the grounds all over the United States.  

With our  Zoom meeting, you will receive links to the various record keepers for these closed facilities.  Why were they closed down?  People lacking education made judgment calls when they couldn't control their families.  Making these calls subjected their family members to terrors much worse than "standing in the corner" or being "benched".    You may have heard of the reporter Nellie Bly, who dedicated 10 days of her life to pretend to be insane and stayed in one of these torture houses.  Her report turned these practices on their ear.     We didn't know very much about mental health back then.  Real doctors actually used these places to perform frontal lobotomies, convinced that they could change the behaviors of the inmates.  They tried shock therapy and other means of restraint.  It's a very sad state of affairs and though we have grown so much in the departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, you may have relatives who are wanting to be found.

Please join us on Saturday, June 12, at 5:00 pm

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                                                 Zoom for June will be

                                             Saturday,  June 12th at 5:00PM.  

The topic is:  

Asylums and Family History and the evolution of the Census taker...

Anyone who is missing someone in their family for which there is no death certificate could possibly have been institutionalized during the years 1820 to 1910.  So,  if they were on one Census and disappeared on the next...and perhaps you see their children living with relatives...we will show how to find the databases of patients during that time period.

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Utilizing the knowledge gained from Insane Asylums in finding family members  and the Evolution of the  Census and the Census

Saturday, June 12⋅5:00 –6:00 pm ARIZONA TIME

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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, TEMPLE AND FAMILY HISTORY, ZOOM MEETING WITH TED AND KAREN MEYER

 

     January 2021 - Zoom Meeting is coming up!  We talk a little about it in our newsletter.  Won't you read it and if you want to learn more how to do family history, just email us!  naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com

In this issue, we focus on the new updates to the handbook which will be the subject of our Zoom this Saturday, setting goals, and beginning the new year solving research challenges!

I0 ways to grow closer to the Lord through Family History The following are excerpts from an article on Family Search called 10 Ways to help your Family be closer to God Read God's word together. Serve Others together. Express love for each other often. Go to Church together. Start traditions together. Pray together as a family. Teach good values. Learn about your Ancestors. Hold Weekly Family night. Spend mealtime together. If you have any other questions, please email us at naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com How can I possibly grow closer to God by doing boring, monotonous research?

Boring? Monotonous? Ah! Methinks you need a change of attitude. Let me help you set the scene in your mind. I'm an expert at attitude adjustments! Close your eyes for a moment.

Imagine yourself in a beam of light stepping onto your family cloud in a celestial place. It seems far away and yet close and personal at the same time. You see gates made of gold, open and the light emanating from within shines on beings walking towards you. The light shines on their backs in a way that makes them glow as if they have wings. The rays keep you from seeing their faces but you are sure that they know you... One reaches out and as she touches you, you feel instant love. It is so powerful that you start to tremble, not in fear, but in awe. She smiles and says, "Thank you! There was a mistake in the file and you stayed with it. You got what you needed to do my work. I've been waiting almost 300 years and you were the one that made it happen. I can never repay the debt."

Her words touch your heart so much that tears literally fall from your eyes and without a sound, you are transformed. The feeling of overwhelming love and satisfaction fills your body and you realize that maybe it wasn't so boring and monotonous as you once thought. As a matter of fact, you are a little surprised that you ever had those thoughts go through your mind. We can't know exactly what is going to happen when we cross the veil. We can only hope that our work is acceptable to a loving God and grateful ancestors who have the opportunity to move forward because of our labors.

Researching Family History is so much more than just looking at records. It's thinking with your "whole heart" and opening the valve to celestial communication from beyond the veil. As you search, those spirits will attend to your soul. They will buoy your spirit when you become discouraged and they will cheer when you reap the benefits of your work. Remember that perseverance is a virtue. One meeting a few years ago in Salt Lake, a Family Search Manager said, ~"Anyone can print out thousands of cards and flood the system, but when you slow down a little, in a way that will help you really get to know your ancestor, the whole process will become more personal." ~

In your mind, you may visualize a relative as he signed the paper which would allow him to dedicate his life to his country during the war. Now you have his signature. As you read on the World War I document, the color of his eyes, his hair, his body type, and any frailties, which would obviously exclude him from the opportunity, you can't help but feel empathetic. There, on that one document, you can put the whole picture together. Not only do you see his physical attributes, but you see how he made a living (his occupation). You will see who his boss was and what he did for that company. You will also see if he was a son living with his parents, or if he was a husband and father at that special time in his life.

Finding these when you are doing research will give you courage to go on. Use tools that will help you go forward. So often, if you aren't using research tools to keep track of where you have been, you constantly circle around and click on the same file over and over again. Do you need some research files to help you? You can click below - something just might be the key to your moving forward with a new positive attitude of love for your ancestors. Basic Research Document https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppx4B_f6lL-aeHoEE?e=wt3zh9 Test document to determine which children belong to multiple mothers in a family tree. https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppxwi6n_vJWDdhIuQ?e=RsgJ0o This excel sheet will allow you to enter the family names and years of birth - it will then calculate each age of each family member for each census - making it easier to match the family to the census. https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppxoa_EpDRTLOcVBp?e=abrcSA

Growing closer to God... when adversity strikes. Our message to you this month

No one has to tell you that 2020 has been probably the most challenging year of our lives. It's no secret that the adversary lies in wait for our faith to wane before he sidles up to our side to suggest another way...a way away from our beliefs. If ever you needed to grow closer to your Heavenly Father it is now. It is easy for me to pray for others, but I was raised in a different faith, and engrained in that psyche of mine is a voice that says it is selfish to pray for yourself. This is wrong. You need to pray to Heavenly Father for yourself as well as for others. He will work miracles in your life. You may not see the miracle as it is unfolding, but it will become self-evident. In September of this year, I had hip replacement surgery that went septic, leaving me without the ability to walk. When I finally started praying for answers, and for the Doctors to come up with a solution to cure the pain that kept me from healing, I heard the words from this scripture: In Proverbs 3:5–6, we read this counsel: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Focusing on this, I came to hear the spirit whisper that these moments would pass but that I would grow closer to my Heavenly Father if I trusted him. This past Sunday, after starting yet another round of antibiotics, was my first time to return to the church building for services. It was an emotional experience and it felt like I was home. The counselor in the Bishopric gave me a blessing. In that blessing, he paused and then said, "...that through this experience, I would grow closer to my Father." So this affliction has improved vastly and I can see a positive path to returning to normal. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but I have faith that if I lean not unto my own understanding and lean on the Lord, He will direct my path in all things. So our message is to listen to the spirit, especially when you are doing family history. Those spirits are actively trying to get your attention. They want to help you with your research. When you pray first before doing your work, you will be buoyed by angels who do not want to be forgotten and they will help direct you to the path to uncovering more opportunities for temple ordinances. . President Bonnie Cordon in 2017 gave a great talk about this subject, Lean not unto thine own understanding...I hope you will read it, think about it and start your New Year right! https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2017/04/trust-in-the-lord-and-lean-not?lang=eng#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTrust%20in%20the%20Lord%20with,warning%2C%20and%20a%20glorious%20promise.

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A Thanksgiving Message for you...

Here is our Thanksgiving message for you. We think we know what gratitude is. We think we are thankful. However, not one of us has traveled beyond the veil and turned to look back once the truth is realized...wondering. Not one of us has arrived there and wistfully wondered why we didn’t listen to the missionaries when we had the chance. None of us has realized our full potential but are hopeful that we have enough time here to do that which we were put here to do. We haven’t waited years for someone to do our work and when completed, simply drop to our knees in great heaving sobs, in true gratitude for the atonement of Jesus Christ, that he restored the Gospel to the earth. From their point of view, those heavy tears of thankfulness are for those still on earth who selflessly did the research to find them and do the work for them so they can move forward in Heaven to their Divine potential. That is gratitude...pure gratitude and the thought of helping those on the other side reduces me to tears wondering what more I can do to help them. May you and your families stop for a moment and truly be grateful for your life, your family and the ability to help others in their journey. We are so thankful for you and are ready to serve you in anything you hope to accomplish for your Stake in Family History. Please call on us.

Ted and Karen Meyer, Area Temple And Family History Consultants, Arizona Scottsdale Coordinating Council

Ted and Karen Meyer

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In our newsletter this month, we cover a lot of ground.  From 1890 census data lost to help for Consultants and a special article about a Stake which is truly capturing the Spirit of Elijah in Family History Work.  Their consultants, Sr.  Karla Houston, and Sr. Marianne Mckay-cox came to the Camelback Stake Center on a Mission from their Bishop to work on a plan for their Ward!  It was truly a lovely experience for us.  We love it when Consultants are proactive in searching for the Spirit of Elijah

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http://www.moderatebutpassionate.com/2013/05/family-history-skeletons-in-closet.html#comment-form

This is a great article - I hope you enjoy it!  Our Grandpa used to say, when we would visit, "Find any horse thieves in the bunch?"  I am trying to teach consultants to have this attitude - to report the good and the bad without judgment or emotion.  It's just a fact; choices which were made, no judgment on our part.  Perhaps if we were more open in years past about our family's choices, our younger generations would have a more discerning eye towards choice and accountability.  Learning from our ancestors is one reason why Spencer W. Kimball, about journal keeping, "DO IT!" - Thank you for this article.  I'd like to add your reference to our Area newsletter.



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