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Thursday, January 7, 2021
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! | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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." | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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." ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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! | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Click to join on Saturday, January 9, 2020 You can enter up to 30 min before the meeting which will begin on Saturday at 5 PM ARIZONA TIME Ted and Karen Meyer, Multi-Stake Temple and Family History Consultants for the Arizona Scottsdale Coordinating Council are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. At this meeting, we will be going through all of the changes in Handbook2 from December 2020. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7270583299?pwd=MGdXUEVSTjI1dUpiaXNVbndPUS9iZz09 Meeting ID: 727 058 3299 Passcode: 2ZNTFY ZOOM VIDEO WILL BE HERE ON JANUARY 9, 2021 IN THE EVENING HERE IS THE PRESENTATION - PLEASE COME SO WE CAN DISCUSS IT! Past Newsletters and Mail Chimp literature about what we do! | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Friday, July 10, 2020
Tomorrow is our Zoom meeting on Helping our Consultants...
Helping our Consultants feel more comfortable in their calling!
You are called to a "calling" because your Bishop has been inspired that it would be of benefit not only to you but to your Ward, the people in your church family, who love you....and yet....
We are getting a lot of emails with people pouring their hearts out to us, so we want to help them and you too, if these are some of the things that you are feeling:
- I get nervous when I feel I have to know everything...
- What if the Ward member takes the time to meet with me and I can't answer her questions
- I am a new member, I just know what the Consultant did for ME - how can I know enough to help others?
- I think the Bishop made a big mistake....I'm not ready to be a Consultant.
- I have done 3 one on one spiritual family history experiences and have been filled with anxiety with everyone. What if I make a mistake and they get on the wrong cloud with the wrong family?
- How can I work with the Primary Kids? They don't even know what a County, City, and State is....how can they do genealogy research?
We will have the answers to all these questions! Please join us at 5 pm ARIZONA TIME SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2020
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A Consultant's First Steps...
"A Nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”..” —that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Notice that the word God was not left out of such an important speech. From the 2014 article in LDS Living we find that Abraham Lincoln and the Book of Mormon were not strangers.Lincoln and the Book of Mormon
In 1862, Lincoln’s conversion really heated up. What exactly was he being converted to? He was learning what Joseph Smith knew. He began seeing the Civil War the way Joseph Smith and Brigham Young saw it. Lincoln surprised the nation with the Emancipation Proclamation in the wake of his conversion and that powerful battlefield miracle. But the most important thing to understand is that the Proclamation represented the beginning of national repentance; it was the initial link in a chain of events that would lead to the 13th and 14th Amendments—to the end of slavery and to the constitutionally binding protection of temples in the land. “In giving freedom to the slave,” pronounced Lincoln, “we assure freedom to the free.” Lincoln was fulfilling Joseph Smith’s prophecies and bringing forth the national solutions the prophet had sought.
As a result of his conversion, Lincoln started to believe that God actually wanted this war in the land. Let us not take this for granted. It is a most bizarre thing for a president of the United States to believe—bizarre, that is, until coupled with the promises and prophecies of Joseph Smith. Lincoln was only saying what Joseph Smith had said. “And insomuch as we know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world,” declared Lincoln, “may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?”
Smith of course had read such things in the Book of Mormon—the story of the covenant land of America. The story tells of how, in a covenant land, a wicked people may expect the humbling power of national calamities to befall them: “Except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea except he doth visit them with death and with terror . . . they will not remember him” (Helaman 12:3)."
Ted and Karen Meyer are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Its coming! Our next Zoom meeting will be Saturday, July 11 at 5 pm to 6pm ARIZONA TIME. We will be discussing ideas to help Consultants feel comfortable with approaching members to set an apt to analyze their tree. Some feel they need to know everything before they assume the title of Consultant. We would like to show you a few things to increase their self confidence.
Thomas S. Monson once said, "We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. Therefore, we must plunge into this work, and we must prepare for some uphill climbing. This is not an easy task, but the Lord has placed it upon you, and He has placed it upon me. "~https://www.
churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ liahona/2014/06/hastening-the- work?lang=eng
We will also have a guest from St George, Br Karl Tippets who will share his techniques for descendancy research.
Lastly we will be discussing the newest Family Search Partner which you will be able to have access to their data for French research.
Helping Consultants feel comfortable in their calling, Saturday, Jul 11 · 5–6 PM Arizona time
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ncy research. Lastly we will be discussing the newest Family Search Partner which you will be able to have access to their data for French research.
Helping Consultants feel comfortable in their calling, Saturday, Jul 11 · 5–6 PM Arizona time
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New Family Search partner!
This is a great article about our own leader, Elder Kevin Hamilton and family history. It is from familylocket.com, an excellent source for knowledge.
How to use Learn About Your Family
Elder Hamilton suggested that the Learn About Your Family tool is a great way to engage someone in learning more about their family history anytime, anywhere. The process is as simple as entering basic information about a deceased family member – perhaps a grandfather or grandmother – into the tool and clicking “Search.”
FamilySearch will then generate information about the surname: its meaning, how many people in the shared family tree have that surname, and where in the world it is found.
It will also bring up the top people in the family tree associated with that name, along with information about available records and a few pictures, prompting people to create a free account to learn more.
“Family history spans all cultures,” states Hamilton. When we start helping people discover something new and connect with their ancestors, then engage them with technology, “it fires off feelings of motivation. They catch on fire and start to go.”
Up All Night
Elder Hamilton illustrated this idea with a story about helping a new acquaintance learn more about his deceased grandfather. They entered the grandfather’s name into the Learn About Your Family tool, and when a photo of the friend’s grandpa showed up on the screen, the friend took the phone right out of Elder Hamilton’s hand as he exclaimed, “That’s my Grandpa! Give me that.” Elder Hamilton helped the man set up a FamilySearch account and they spent an hour exploring the man’s family. They also used the Family Tree app to check to see if they were related, and discovered they were 9th cousins. The man became emotional as he discovered more about his family. The next morning, Elder Hamilton received a call. The man had been up all night looking at his family history and had questions. Elder Hamilton was able to point him to the right people for additional help. Elder Hamilton said about helping people experience a taste of family history, “People get compelled. It’s compelling!”
Helping your Temple and Family History Leader to work with Ward Leaders to raise the convert retention numbers - watch our Zoom from last month!
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
A Ward Plan - do you have one?
The Ward Family History Plan
These Graphics show also, how each faction, working with people being taught can bring them to the point of baptism with their own family names before the baptism date. This ensures that they will have plenty of work to keep them busy for the next year, they will have a new friend in the Consultant who is assigned to them, they will have a new friend in the ministering sister or brother who is assigned to them upon baptism and the three of them together with others, will work to keep returning to the temple often.
Working to effect this prior to 60 days after baptism has been found to be the optimal period to ensure that retention will ensue.
David Nielsen just wrote an excellent article on Family Search about just this thing:
https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/category/latter-day-saints/temple-and-family-history/
- Under the direction of the bishop, the ward council develops a ward temple and family history plan. The ward council then reviews and updates the plan regularly.
- The ward temple and family history leader or a member of the elders quorum presidency may lead the plan’s development and implementation.
- A member of the Relief Society presidency may assist.
In this article it mentions the direction given by Elder Renlund:
In his instruction, Elder Renlund gave examples of what a plan might address:
- Involving the ward’s 10- and 11-year-old children in temple and family history service.
- Encouraging children and youth to qualify for and use a limited-use recommend at the appropriate age.
- Involving every new convert in temple and family history service.
- Encouraging new converts to obtain and use a limited-use recommend.
- Helping ward members enter the first four generations of their family into the FamilySearch Family Tree.
- Helping specific individuals prepare for the temple (as assigned by the bishop).
- Encouraging temple attendance without establishing quotas or reporting systems.
Temple and family history consultants are key in helping a ward implement a temple and family history plan. As needed, various ward leaders and members may also help develop the plan.
How does the Relief Society work with Consultants?
A Relief Society President has two counselors. One helps with missionary work and the other helps with Temple and Family History Work. An Assignment can be made by the Relief Society to have a sister gather names from women who are unable to go to the temple and distribute to those who are still able to go. This Sister can also work with the Counselor over Temple and Family History Work to create fun family history events, i.e., workshops, temple trips, and perhaps even a suggestion of relief society evenings including Consultants who help people find names. The other Counselor works with the Ward Mission Leader and Full-Time Missionaries when a female is being taught by the Elders. She can work with Consultants to help her build a family tree, even encourage other sisters to join in. Once the sister is baptized, the Relief Society will assign a ministering sister to continue to help her find names and build her tree.
How does the Primary Presidency work with Consultants?
A Primary President has two counselors. Formerly, one was over scouting and the organization of getting the 8-year-olds baptized each year. The other Counselor was generally in charge of Activity days and Music. Since the new program, deleting Scouting, the Counselor over the baptism of the 8-year-olds can now work with any new members to the ward moving in 8-11 to ensure that they are baptized. The other counselor can work with Consultants to help the 10-year-olds get a basic understanding of family history. She could also help the 11-year-olds learn more about Family Tree and build their own tree in preparation for YW/YM where they will attend the temple for Baptism of the Dead. They are old enough to learn how to reserve and print a name.
How would the Ward Council work effectively with the Temple and Family History Leader and his Consultants?
How many consultants are needed in a Ward?
Assignments are made by the EQ President and RS President to choose someone in the organization to be diligent in helping those who cannot go to the Temple any longer but who have names to have work completed, gather them, distribute them and return them to the patrons.
The Bishop, should he choose, can call Youth Consultants to work with their peers, who work with the elderly who do not have computer skills (a very successful service opportunity, by the way). He can call a few Primary Consultants - 10-year-olds learning more about family history who can be taught how to reserve and print a name in preparation for the year they enter Young Women's or Young Men's and are able to attend the Temple.
What are Temple and Family History Consultants able to do within a Ward?
Communication makes Ward Family History much Easier
What if the Primary is planning an event in the Spring and the Young Women are also planning an event in the Spring - on the same weekend? Good Communication plans can help all factions dovetail the details together so that they can each see what is going to go on the calendar.
This workbook will give you ideas to choose from Family Search. Each has a link to the section of Family History Activities which would most interest that age group.
This is not a reporting system - it's an opportunity to share and coordinate activities and to pool resources to effect a well rounded Family History Plan. No names are mentioned as to who went to the temple, only that dates are planned for the ward.
This is not a reporting system - it's an opportunity to share and coordinate activities and to pool resources to effect a well rounded Family History Plan. No names are mentioned as to who went to the temple, only that dates are planned for the ward.
- Encouraging temple attendance without establishing quotas or reporting systems. (~Elder Renlund)
Each can plan their activity and the Bishop can send it to each Auxiliary in the Ward to complete. They can discuss how to assist each other at the Ward Council Meeting.
Here is a link to the workbook for you to use:
Each page rolls the numbers to the last page - the Annual Roll up so you can track your activity by year.
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