NASW FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER FOR MAY 1 2018

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What is President Robinson's Initiative to increasing Missionary Opportunities?

Our May Newsletter has the letter plus it gives you many great hints as a TFHC to help you with your work.

Either read right here - scroll down - you can get the pdf by using this link:

LINK TO NEWSLETTER PDF

Need Temple and Family HIstory Training?  To learn the computer from the keys up, try TheFHguide.com

Have you learned the one on one process of the Family HIstory Experience as the Prophet has requested that you learn?

Here's a cheat sheet

this is just a picture of page 1

Do you need more help?

On Family Search, when you log in, if you are a TFHC you will see a link to learn more about your calling.  It has some videos of people doing the one on one family history personalized experience.

You can print this out to refer to as well if you need help.

We are having a Family History Event on May 20, 2018 - 

Here is how we organized it

Here's our save the date flyer and day of the event handout which tells them what booth to go to for whatever problem they may have.

Very excited about new files coming out of Russia, Poland and other former Iron Curtain countries.

New Records on FamilySearch: Week of April 30, 2018 by FamilySearch New archived records from around the world are published on FamilySearch every week to help you find your ancestors. This week, the new additions include 1.1 million records from Germany (Bavaria), plus more from Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Peru, and Russia. See the official announcement to learn more or search these new free records: New Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of April 30, 2018 Over 6 billion searchable historic records are available from around the world on FamilySearch.org. Records are published with the help of thousands of volunteer indexers who transcribe digital copies of handwritten records to make them easily searchable online. To help make more historical records from the world's archives available online, volunteer with FamilySearch Indexing. FamilySearch | May 1, 2018 at 5:24 pm | URL: https://wp.me/p3q0yN-9Wl

The Mesa Temple is closing May 19, 2018

for rennovations

That doesn't mean your FH work is done ;)

You can go to Gilbert or any of the Phoenix Temples!

Discover, Gather and Connect - Pulling the Family together!

I first became interested in Family History as a girl in Danville, CA where after school, I would walk sometimes to my friend Sharon's home.  To get there, you had to walk by the old Alamo Cemetery on the border of Danville and Alamo, which had been in existence since the 1800s.  To get to Sharon's even quicker, you could cut through the cemetery.  As a 12-year-old, I wasn't afraid of the spirits there, I was, however, fascinated with the stories on the headstones.  It was a pretty rickety old cemetery, not really kept up, no lawn to manicure.  I felt almost transformed into that space in time which they lived.  I longed to know what they endured, how I could have helped them, or make their lives easier somehow.  That became my first experiences with learning about our ancestors.

 Today was our Stake Conference.  In attendance was General Authority, Hugo E. Martinez who spoke to us.  His stories were heartwarming and full of love for the people and especially family history.

We had the opportunity to speak with him after the Conference and told him of the idea to have investigators be assigned to a TFHC while working with the Missionaries.  Once they are baptized, we can present them with a fan chart for their home and family members and continue to work on their tree.  They would already have names to take to the Temple, which is the request of the 1st Presidency, that each new member take their own names to the Temple within 60 days of Baptism.  

He was thrilled that we were working on this project and that it was a success.  He said that only 3% of all members every truly catch the Spirit of Elijah and that finding people for their family tree and not just getting names for the Temple, but really helping them to get to know their ancestors by finding stories and pictures for them, should our motivation for truly helping new members.

Several years ago, when I was first a Family History Consultant, I had put my pictures of my family on my computer as a screensaver.  Whenever I would walk by, I would see their names and faces floating by and I would hear their voices saying, "Please help us! Don't forget us!"  I can't express the feeling enough of the heartache or the tears stinging, rushing from my eyes within seconds of walking past that sight.  It was an emotionally impacted moment of which I will not soon forget.

I knew, even then, at 28 years old, that my goal would be to help people find out more about their families.  To have this wonderful man come right out and say to the effect of  'Don't just be a Temple Hunter, find out about the love in their families' was so heartwarming that I was moved to tears.

.  Family History heals hearts in a way that no other action can replace.   That relationship which was not so great when you were younger, will become as strong as a rock when you choose to show your ancestors that they have not been forgotten.

Start today.  Discover who your Ancestors are.  Gather them all together and Connect them to your family tree.  No wonder Family History is the 3rd most popular hobby worldwide.  It is inspirational to learn more about stories which can be passed down to their posterity.  

Let us know how we can help you!

Ted and Karen Meyer

Educate yourself on Genealogy! You won't regret it!

ROOTS TECH - FAMILY HISTORY CONVENTION 2018 - WOW!!!! SO MUCH TO TELL YOU!

DISCOVER your loved ones,

GATHER them together,

CONNECT for Eternity

more info at https://familysearch.org/blog/connect

Who wouldn't love to be with 

their family for Eternity?

We have been having a lot of fun learning about the new technology but the best of all is prayer.  When you pray before you do your family history and ask for guidance, those spirits do NOT want to be forgotten...they will help you.

HERE IT IS!

THE NEWEST CONSULTANT PLANNER GUIDE 
WE PUT IT TOGETHER TO MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE THE VERY BEST!
the new guide from us on the Consultant Planner

 will make your life easy and fun

as you watch others experience the joy

because you cared enough to help them find their loved ones.

THIS IS OUR TRAINING VIDEO ABOUT THE CONSULTANT VIDEO

Here is the link if you would like to help train others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJJvyenq0U

We no longer use the phrase, FIND, TAKE AND TEACH.  

The former six steps to conducting a spirit led, one on one, heartfelt family history experience has now been 
changed to:

YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THESE AT

https://www.familysearch.org/ask/planner/calling


THEFHGUIDE.COM
This is an amazing training platform for Consultants.  It takes you from very beginner to advanced Family History Consultant.  No matter how much you know, or think you know, this site will improve on that!

Our January Newsletter in PDF form with the links to these helpful sites is HERE

SPECIAL REPORT AREA CONFERENCE TAKEAWAYS JULY 18-20 2017

The images below are a facsimile of a Newsletter we just sent out.  You can find the links below the images of the Newsletter. 

 

 We were so touched by this lecture that we put it to music and added pictures. If you can't hear the music, ask us for a onedrive link

naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com

thx!

A fun thing we learned was to 

Find Relatives Around you!

Fun exercise - download Family Tree app to your phone.

Open app - look for "More"

Click on More button and look for

Find Relatives around me!

It will scan the room or building and let you know who you are related to!

You will love this! 

IF you are good at video games, you would like Life's Journey - see link below!  I had trouble with this because I don't have a real command over games with the up and down arrow but you would probably do fine!

another great game is called Relatives around me!   You can find it below at the WHAT'S NEW link!   We played it in a room of about 300 people I couldn't believe how many I was related to!  I wasn't raised LDS and thought I didn't have any LDS pioneer family.  That's another reason why you should do your family history - you NEVER know what you are going to find!

LINKS FOR THE ITEMS ABOVE

WHAT'S NEW AT FAMILY SEARCH?

GENEAOPARDY

LIFE'S JOURNEY

SCRAMBLE TREE

CONSULTANT PLANNER

INVITE, INVITE, INVITE - ARTICLE ABOUT ENCOURAGING YOUTH TO HELP WITH RETENTION OF CONVERTS AND ACTIVATION OF LESS ACTIVES