Friday, November 11, 2022

Handouts for our Zoom on 11/12/22

 Handouts which will be discussed on the Call:

We do this because we love to see families finding their ancestors and becoming their escort to take them to the temple for the very first time. Think about that. Do you remember your first time going to the temple?


How grateful you were to have an escort who was experienced in the process and allowed you to relax and take in the beauty of the ordinances!

In our next Zoom on November 12, 2022, at 5:00 pm, we will be sharing ideas on how to help 11-year-old's take advantage of the experience for their very first time. They want to be as knowledgeable as the older High School kids and by teaching them how to research an ancestor, reserve an ordinance of baptism for them and print it out, you are providing an invaluable service.  

The ideas we will be giving will have links to our one drive. We ask that you download any desired forms, certificates, and learning materials completely to your desktop, then please be careful to close the link to the onedrive and save the documents with a slightly different name to keep your edited documents from being saved on our one drive. If you delete any of our tools, we cannot share this way. Unfortunately, there have been people who have for whatever reason, deleted entire files. 

 

The ideas expressed in our Newsletter mention Sharing Time.  I understand that there no longer is Sharing time and as a former Chorister for 10 years in California that makes me sad because those were some great years in my life.  However please take these ideas and apply them however they fit into your Primary.  All the handouts are in Word Format and can be changed to read however you would like.   


Use your imagination and just help the kids with whatever time you must learn Family History. That is what President Nelson wants.  That is what we should figure out how to do.   We just try our best to produce  

ideas that will be easy for you - if we fail this time, we will try again. We are supposed to give ideas to you.  If those ideas cause you to think of even better ideas for your success, then that is beautiful! 


Now, in that vein – we are so excited to tell you that our friends Brother and Sister Jewell, the Area TFHCs from the Mesa Family History Center spring boarded some ideas from Primarily Primary and launched something even more spectacular.  It is so beautifully organized.  We are all blessed by their endeavors. 

You will find this in the file called It is located within the file called  

11 yr old transition 

 

 

Eric and Natascha Jewell 

 

AttachmentsSat, Jun 15, 3:30 PM (7 days ago) 

 

 

 

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You inspired me to try and put together some different activities for primary aged children.  I compiled 4 activities, plus a few thoughts about Temple and Priesthood Preview.  I used your "Primarily" idea that I talked with you about using a few months ago.  I thought I would share what I created with you. Feel free to pass them along or not.  The first document contains all the ideas together. The other attachments are the individual ideas. 

Most of the activities were done by my sister when she was both a cub scout leader and then an activity days leader.  She loved family history and figured out a way to combine both family history and primary activities together. 
 

 
 

Thanks for the inspiration! 


Our Friends are Area Advisers over the Mesa FHC


Eric and Natascha Jewell, Area Temple and Family History Consultants 

Mesa Family History Center, Mesa Coordinating Council 

THIS IS IT!!!! 



ZOOM RECORDING OF THE MEETING ON 11 YR OLDS

Here is a link to our ONE DRIVE with our handouts - you are welcome to use.  Please don't change them (ADD YOUR WARD NAME) until they are on your system

WORDS WHICH SHOULD NOT BE USED IN FAMILY SEARCH

11 YEAR OLD CHART PROGRESS IN EXCEL

11 YEAR OLD TRANSITIONAL CHART

11 year old transition slide show - .pdf   to YW/YM slide show - POWER POINT

If you are a Temple and family History Leader in you Ward and would like a copy of the Ward Annual Family History Planner, email us a naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com and ask for it by name

THIS LINK SHOULD SEND YOU TO A POWERPOINT OF THE SAMPLE WARD PLAN

USING PREFERRED OPTIONS 4 INCLUDING A TFHLEADER AND WARD MISSION LEADER.

FROM THE POWERPOINT SAMPLE WARD PLAN




Saturday, October 29, 2022

Get ready, set, go! Help transition those 11 yr olds!



NASWFAMILYHISTORY - LOGO

 

            It's coming - are you ready?


We have received so many emails last month wanting to know more about this last quarter's play for the goal!....and we aren't talking about football, soccer or hockey!

EQ Counselor is over Family History...You probably have 11 yr olds in your Ward.  High Councilors over Family History, you have 11-year-olds in your stakes who need to be prepared for YW/YM.  They are about turn 12 during the year of 2023...this now means they go into YW and YM  on Sunday, January 1, 2023.  This now means you have 64 days to do this...Who's in charge?  The parents....!

How can that be?  Parents in charge?  Awesome.  Primary Counselors over Family History, you get a little reprieve!  According to the Handbook Dec of 2022, the responsibility switched from you to the Parents.   So how do you all fit into the picture?  You can choose a way, but this is how we might do it:

    Bishops/ EQ Counselors/ High Councilors over FH
        1.  Have your clerks give you a list of  children 11 turning 12 in 2023.
        2.  Format:  Name, Stake, Ward, Parents, Phone
        3.  Organize it a way that will be easy for you to follow up.
        4.  Invite them to come to our zoom.
        5.  We will give them some tools which will make the kids feel prepared.  We hope to see you all as well.  This is an important step.
Let's say the parents can't attend the zoom - someone from your ward/stake needs to have the knowledge we are about to impart so let's hope it's you - you'll save the day!

Here's the invitation to our zoom:  It's always on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 5 pm MT Arizona
    
Ted and Karen Meyer, naswfamilyhistory.blogspot.com are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic:  11 yr olds transition to YW/YM with Family History knowledge
Time: Nov 12, 2022 05:00 PM Arizona

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Understanding Chapter 25 of the Handbook as it pertains to Families, children and Teens


 Dear Leaders, 

We would like this meeting to be with your family History team of Consultants, TFHLeaders from each Ward, High Counselors over FH who train the Stake Consultants, and any of the RS Counselors over Family History and EQ Counselors over Family History in the wards. Primary first Counselors over Family History will be equally interested.  We hope you will invite anyone with a Family History Calling to join us.  God Bless you in your efforts to fulfill your wonderful calling.

A few months ago, I  believe in December, there was a shift in working with children and families.  The wording in the handbook was changed to meet the focus of learning about family history TO THE PARENTS VERSUS THE Primary Counselor training them.   This was a shift away from the RS Counselor and Primary Counselor over FH directly to the parent with the Counselors offering ideas and we have the link to the video that was so beautifully done.  https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/president-and-sister-oaks-share-personal-experiences-during-family-discovery-day?lang=eng&cid=email-shared

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 5 pm where you will get ideas you may use, or you may be inspired to springboard off our ideas and create something amazing tailored to your Ward/Stake.

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Disclaimer:  All of our ideas are just that, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but not paid for or commissioned to create on behalf of them.  They are just inspired by the Lord through personal revelation.  If you take one of our ideas and it springboards into something even more memorable, spectacular or noteworthy, we commend you on your own personal revelation with your heart attuned to the teachings of Jesus Christ for the betterment of others.

Saturday, September 24, 2022

PICTURES FROM OUR FAMILY HISTORY FAIR IN MAY

 These are pictures from our Stake Event in May, 2022 - However, we are pleased to let you know  the next close one is coming up very stoon!  One of our sister Stakes in Maricopa County is having a Family History Fair.  You can have the opportunity to speak with experts in family history, give them your hardest task of finding your special relative.  Have them give you ideas of where to look!  


The next one we know of is in Gilbert, AZ just 20 minutes from our Camelback Stake Center.
The date:  October 22, 2022
Address:  San Tan Stake Family History Fair
4170 S Ranch House Parkway
Gilbert, AZ  85297
time:  11:00 am to 2:00 pm












One of our sister Stakes in Maricopa County is having a Family History Fair.  You can have the opportunity to speak with experts in family history, give them your hardest task of finding your special relative.  Have them give you ideas of where to look!  

The next one we know of is in Gilbert, AZ just 20 minutes from our Camelback Stake Center.
The date:  October 22, 2022
Address:  San Tan Stake Family History Fair
4170 S Ranch House Parkway
Gilbert, AZ  85297
time:  11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Hope to see you there!  If you need any more information contact our friends, Len and Pam Ingermanson 520 235 4694 who are the Directors in charge of the San Tan Family History Center are the hosts.
Here is what you will experience!





FAMILY HISTORY FAIR - Want to take a trip with your Ancestors?

 TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE...

This past May, we had our stake Family History Fair.  It was so much fun, and I documented everything that made it a success.  It's a small pamphlet, but never the less, it's FREE if you use Kindle.  For the paperback version, I believe it is under 3.00.  That being said, I told Amazon it was my church calling and I wanted to choose the cost of 00.  They said, Well, we have to cover paper, ink, etc.,"  Truly that makes sense to me.   It is quite a compliment for others to come from other Stakes, and even States to see how to put one of these together.  What could be called amazingly satisfying is to see them succeed using perhaps some of our ideas, but more so, being inspired and coming up with cool innovations that will attract masses to learn how to find their ancestors!

How to create a successful Family History Fair! 

Family History is the 3rd most popular hobby in the world! During the pandemic, two things SOARED 
through the roof.  One was, that young women worldwide, without the ability to go to malls, stayed home and learned to sew.  There was a shortage of sewing machines, increasing the cost and value of existing machines driving the price of sewing and machines like embroidery machines up 150%  Other Families, who had worked hard on their family history by staying at home and working at it daily,  even submitted DNA testing so that they could  identify family members by the shared Centimorgans  (short strands depicting the same gene arrays for the same families). Parents were reunited with adopted adults, Young people who wanted to know who their missing parent was and to whom they were related, now  could zero in on that information. This seemed like a wonderful time to really share with our neighborhoods  and communities and reach out and connect with them. We wanted to have the perfect Famliy History Fair - and it was! This will give you our cookie cutter plan which is very successful. You may use our plan, or you   may choose parts of it to enhance your own creation. How would your Stake like to receive your community with  open arms? See how we did it!Read less


                            $2.99 Other Formats: Paperback KINDLE - FREE!


Saturday, September 10, 2022

Using your Scrutinizing Spectacles to break thru walls - TONIGHT'S ZOOM!

 Thank you so much for accepting your calling in Family History.  You are helping people connect with their ancestors.  The Zoom call links are all below the graphic as promised.  We were having some technical difficulties during the call - our Zoom on our end was distorted and it was displaying the graphics from the next slide with the words of the present slide.  We tried to carry on and will let Zoom know about it.  Email us with any questions you may have.  naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com

Join us tonight for an interesting ZOOM about Temples and how to be a super sleuth when looking for your ancestors.  Genealogy at its finest is when ancestors are found quickly - utilizing less time and yielding more amazing files for your tree.  See how we do it - there are things we do you might want to adopt.  See you Tonight

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LINKS FOR WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN TODAY'S ZOOM

Everything You've Ever Wanted to know about Partner Access


Using the Bridge Method of Genealogy

Words that should not be used in Family Search

ZOOM CALL RECORDING WILL BE HERE


ZOOM PDF WILL BE HERE


ZOOM SLIDE SHOW WILL BE HERE


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READER COMMENTS ARE ALLOWED BUT WE WOULD RATHER HAVE AN EMAIL TO NASWFAMILYHISTORY@GMAIL.COM.  THEY DON'T LET US KNOW WHEN SOMEONE LEAVES COMMENTS HERE.

Saturday, August 13, 2022

How do Document your Memories!

 


Your Memories are special

Thank you to those who came to our Zoom class on Memories in Family Search and also how to take your stories and create a book for free.

PDF OF DOCUMENT YOUR MEMORIES

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ZOOM VIDEO

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THE FOLLOWING PAGES WERE FROM THE VIDEO AND CAN BE LAMINATED TO TAKE WITH YOU WHEN INTERVIEWING PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR LIVES.

if the one drive link is not accessible try it on our Youtube channel  https://youtu.be/gwtSe2vb9JM








Happy New Year - 2026 - Need a hand up for Family History Organization in your Ward or Stake?

  Happy New Year!      May you have and record lots of Family History Moments in 2026! From Ted and Karen Meyer naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com ...