Monday, July 13, 2020
NASWFAMILYHISTORY - FAMILY HISTORY ZOOM MEETING 7-11-20
Good Morning! As promised here is our Zoom Meeting ! It was a lot of fun and I'll be uploading the answers to your questions later today. Right Here!!!
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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Friday, June 19, 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Zoom meeting on helping Missionaries was great!
No matter what the title is, "Helping Missionaries to onboard a new member to the ward", "Learning how to effectively work with the Missionaries, thus raising their convert retention numbers", it was apparent that whatever we do to help the Missionaries work in the field be saved, retained, and cherished after dedicating two years of their lives to this "marvelous work and a wonder", is it is greatly appreciated by: missionaries, parents of missionaries, Bishops, Mission Presidents, companions of missionaries affected by depression, new members who need a leg up when reaching out to make friends, and people who love people and enjoy being a part of a ward family!
We got some great questions
1. Can you open/permit the "Chat" feature. Not everyone has it.Yes we will learn how to do it. It’s very difficult to chat back while presenting. The print was so fine it and it was a little far away from us that we couldn’t see what people are saying without squinting.2. Just a reminder if you could number the pages for reference. Also, if you make changes, annotate a V. 1, V. 2, etc. and/or change the colors and design so that everyone is aware this an update.I can do that But sometimes the changes in because of stupidity and that’s all Like a ridiculously misspelled word.3. One slide commented that the Bishop gathered information from the Ward and sent it to the Stake President. Not aware that any of this is being nor why.Bishops have never had a “ward plan” until 2019. So then how do they communicate that to their stake president so that he can communicate to the area president that all of his Wards are complying and are doing well? They need an annual planner so we created one that makes it real easy for them to find out what each faction of the auxiliaries are doing for a Family History each quarter that’s all they need to do
Look for Ward Annual family history planner
2020 Ward Annual Family History Planner
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We received word from a few Presidents that they would like to know how people are coming along with family history in the Ward. Without a lot of work, you can implement these tools and have really valuable conversations with your leaders that they can report to their Area Presidency.
Instead of replying, "Great, just great!" when your Stake President says, "How is your Ward doing with Family history?" You could now have at your fingertips, "Our consultants made contact with 30 families last month and gave them ideas for family nights, they helped 5 families prepare fan charts for their home, two of our consultants are working with the Elders and people being taught to build a tree and have names even before they are baptized. We are doing great!"
What a difference you could make!
In the matching video call how do use the ward and your family history on our YouTube.com
4. I am an avid researcher. Being a convert helps. The FamilySearch FamilyTree (FSFT) program is growing and becoming very complex. Unless the user is a very computer-literate (I like to think I am), it is simply too much for anyone over the age of 40 to learn (and that doesn't include the time to learn - just the complexity). I have simply sat and worked with older members, using the Helper function, and researched and printed out the names for them. They have time to attend. I wonder when and if the ability to use the program is going to become universal. Clearly the complexity to deal with billions of individuals is important for the future; however......ANSWER:The consultant planner ceased to be the plan for Consultants to use to analyze peoples trees when somebody realized that ANY member could use the Consultant planner to find opportunities for success for temple ordinances. (I’ll bet they read one of my troubleshooting videos). Non-members cannot use the consultant planner/helper resource because it shows ordinances and they are not allowed to see those until they become a member. Yes, family search is incredibly complex for for very new members and very young learners. That’s why we suggest they put the first four generations into Ancestry and link them to family search it’s just use more user-friendly and easier to navigate.5. I am wondering about Elder Ballard's Instructions on getting the Stake Training/meetings accomplished. Until this letter came out, many of wondering just what the Stake duties were.ANSWER:
We have org charts for every auxiliary showing the duties for each person based on the handbook but since it’s a chart it’s easier to understand for some people it’s located in the temple and family history leader folder on our OneDrive that I gave you. Did I give it to you?
I am excited to see the Stake RS Presidency involved. The sisters get the job done (I have seven daughters).ANSWER: Yes relief Society is one of the auxiliaries where the relief Society president, JUST LIKE THE WARD, has one counselor over missionary work and has another counselor over Temple and Family History are org chart very carefully tells each one is. No, we didn’t say it’s that has to be the first counselor over a Family History and has to be the second counselor over to the family history the handbook just says a counselor so the RS Pres can use her best judgment for that6. I am wondering what has happened to this page. In the past, all the icons shown were posted by each member. Then, last Fall, the green Temple icons were taken away. Then they were put back. Now, it doesn't even seem to be updating. Link: https://www.familysearch.org/campaign/patrons ANSWER:
This was a very interesting episode in family history. It did list the green temples for everyone, however, it’s possible that this could’ve been a scenario that some very eager temple and family history consultant ran up to someone and said ,”Hey how are you? You have 12 temple opportunities why aren’t to going to the temple?" That probably didn't happen like that. But with the entire ward's info at your fingertips, we wondered if there was a privacy issue there..The temples were really cute and a great little set of icons to give the bishop an idea as to who’s doing their work and who is it but as he is not allowed to keep quotas or numbers on those type of things and since that is kind of a breach of privacy on the part of someone who’s not the bishop telling another person how many temple ordinances they have I’ll bet they put the Kabash on it7. In our Stake (four Wards, three branches), there is ONE Ward Family History Plan complete. I am hoping the "new" links to Stake supervision will help. And it's not like the FHC Director and the other Assistant and I aren't pushing the issue.
THAT'S OK - MAYBE FAMILIES ARE WORKING MORE IN THEIR HOMES. WE WANT ACTIVITY OF ANY KIND. IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR MENTAL OUTLOOK TO KEEP BUSY AND FAMILY HISTORY IS A FUN WAY TO DO IT.
8. The links on on the PC in your Library. That would be great to have.Links to Family History for NASWfamilyhistory. Please download to your desktop and save it as another name. If you use our products, you should keep our name on them as we use information from Family Search, the Handbook 2020, and Roots Tech - all years. You are not required to use any of our materials. If they help you understand your calling better or help your ability to lead your people, that is all that is important. Ted and Karen Meyer
Sunday, June 7, 2020
One Work - Family History and Missionary Work
We met with the Zone missionaries last month virtually in an effort to teach them how to work with the Temple and Family History Leaders and Consultants. We met in the Mission President's office, he introduced us and our Elder was also online to watch our presentation.
This weekend we did part two and that was to show the Leaders how they can use the Missionaries, Consultants in working together with people being taught before baptism to get names, build a tree with the goal of a fan chart. During the teachings, the consultant is there with the FTM and becomes the new person's friend so that they can work on the goal of names, tree, baptism, then within 60 days go to the temple with their own names.
We have been training this way for 3 years as in all of our meetings it was verbal but not in writing anywhere. We had a chance meeting with Elder Bednar who answered our prayer, as he had vocally and very succinctly reiterated, "...go to the temple within 60 days with their own names!" On the stage after the presentation, we thanked him for that, and Elder Hamilton, my former stake president, asked us to send our One Work to him.
We hope you enjoy this and if it is something you also believe strongly in, you may use our examples. We are giving this Saturday night on a Zoom as many have requested a repeat meeting. It gives suggestions and ideas that we have seen work. Have a great weekend.
Br. and Sr. Meyer,
Please email us if you are unable to get on the zoom this weekend. All of our Stakes are in Arizona so since it is primarily for them, we are using Arizona time.
Here is our presentation. If you watch this ahead of our presentation, you may have questions at the end. We welcome our Stakes!
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
What is your Story? Do you have a family story started? Why not colorize the pictures and put some life into it!
Should I colorize old pictures?
When Mr. Turner from Turner Broadcasting, started colorizing old black and whites it caused quite a controversy. Some people thought it was denigrating an era where the black and white pictures said something about our history. There was an innocence of the day and those black and white movies took you back to a time when people respected their elders, honored their parents, and country. Add color and it's just another move towards the riotous 60s, hippies, drugs, sex and rock and roll - the nightmares of all parents. Their children were out of control. Yet, sitting in front of a two-hour movie in black and white, and they were instantly transported back to a gentler time when families sat around the radio and listened to stories and plays together.
I feel a little differently about colorization and was very excited when My Heritage, one of Family Search's partners developed a way for people to colorize old pictures for free. For me, it was a time when the stories that I was told while looking at black and white pictures were a source of wonder. I had to imagine the color because my whole life was colorized! When they told me that Aunt Isabel had dark red hair like my Mother and Father, I looked at my mother's henna rinse (to keep the gray away) and tried to imagine my Aunt, now with gray hair, born in 1914 with beautiful red hair. Now, I know!
Here is the same story I put into my journal, and will insert it into my memories now that I colorized the pictures then after the story, I'll show you the black and whites at the bottom.
The place to colorize your pictures is on:
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The place to colorize your pictures is on:
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Aunt Isabel Concannon was beautiful. So beautiful in fact, she won a beauty
contest in 1930 at 15 years old. She
was also a champion swimmer as she took 2nd place in an all-city
meet. Isabella Mae Concannon was born on 28th of July 1914 to
William and Mabel Concannon. She was the 3rd child of 13 born to William and Mabel.
here she is 2nd from the left
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| Mabel Harris Concannon in 1911 |
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| Wm Matthew Concannon in 1911 |
Our grandfather, William Matthew Concannon,
son of Michael Joseph Concannon and Mary Agnes Lally from the isle of
Inishboffin, Galway,
Ireland, was born in Los Angeles. He was the first of the Concannon children
born in the United States. He was not
only a champion swimmer, but an exhibition diver at the pool where Isabel and
her siblings grew up. She had taught
herself to play the piano by ear. That was her talent and it got her the
trophy from the Pageant. Of course, you know how blarney goes. We were told the contest was Miss Arizona which is a pretty cool feat. But, I'm a pretty good genealogist and was unable to corroborate that fact. So we will leave it as a "pageant". She lived in Tucson. Later in life , married to my Uncle Don Root, she
was in a bar, a good catholic girl that she was, playing the piano, and two men
got into a fight over her. She stood up to break them apart and got hit on the
head. This happened the year that I was born in 1953. The accident resulted in
a hematoma on the brain and ensuing brain surgery to remove it. The stroke was a major one but crippled her rather than take her life. It was in the
speech part of her brain and brain surgery was not too advanced or delicate.
She would stroke the flowers and say over and over,
"Mother, mother, mother." She knew my mother didn't
want purple. But it gave me incredible joy that it made her so happy. It soon
became my favorite color. All my life, when she would visit or I would visit
her home, we were inseparable. She could only say Mother, Mike (my dad), Don,
her husband's name, and “you”. Sometimes
she would point to me and say it over and over again with a smile. She could still remember how to play Easter
Parade over and over again on our piano. I would play a song I had learned and
she would play one...Easter Parade.
Isabel worked at a
drugstore in Tucson. She married someone
right out of high school. His name was
Frank Charles Fitch. She had two
children. A boy and a girl. In 1951, the records show that She was
married to my Uncle Don when Frank died of a Heart attack in San Francisco.
My daughter wrote a song
about her. She also taught herself at four years old to play by ear.
My daughter’s favorite
color is also purple. As her fingers
tickle the ivory, I feel Aunt Isabel lives on in her.
Who will you write about today?
This photo is of the younger children as the older ones were already grown. The baby in the picture where Isabel was about 5 and James was a baby. Now this shows baby Jimmy as the oldest of the younger children. From left to right - Mike (My father), Johnny, Ginny, Jimmy about 10 and baby Joe.
Left to right - Mike (my dad) High school - possibly college Football star, Jimmy, baby Joe in front and Johnny on the right
later...my dad's story.
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