Thursday, August 20, 2020

NASW FAMILYHISTORY AUGUST ZOOM WITH YOUR 35 MIN ADDED COMMENTS





Here you go!  Thank you again for such great responses and ideas to pass along

to others who are wanting to teach family history to friends and family and ward members.



We appreciate you more than you know.  Save the Date - Saturday, September 12 5 pm AZ time - Primarily Primary will be the subject - how do you teach children about family history?  How much effort do you put into teaching genealogy basics?  Data input? Where do you draw the line between the proper data input and influence of the spirit to guide.....good ideas to ponder....SAVE THE DATE!



Ted and Karen Meyer

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Zoom Playback fro m 8-15-20

 

URGENT REQUEST....If I get a message that you edited something, that means you didn't download it to your hard drive, rename it and your edited work may have saved on my OneDrive....please...this is a trust issue.  

We need you to use anything that is helpful to you in your calling, just email us and tell us you are trying it out.  Otherwise, we just have a name...and a document that has been changed and we won't be able to share this way....

I have a few names of people who have edited the Relief Society check list "to the temple" which can be saved as any AUX for an excellent checklist, but not easily if someone has already altered formulas or titles.....



LINK TO THE ZOOM MEETING


We were able to recover the most valued section where you all were telling about your experiences with family history and working with others.


Thank you again for participating!


you can watch this first part separately - I re-recorded it so that it wasn't cut off by the timings.


https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PpjfnLKL2T0w0x_Ia?e=Mbnw67


so this one is better than the youtube.com

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Notes from our August 15, 2020 Meeting

 Notes from our August 2020 Zoom Meeting



Thank you all for coming and participating!  It was great meeting you and finding out where you come from and how you are still managing to share family history, stay sheltered in place and work with others.  Here are some notes we have taken and summarization.

We discussed

  •  training of Relief Society Presidencies and Elders Quorum Presidencies.  
  • the fact that the HC over TFH does not have to do the training alone.  He can pass the tools to a trusted Stake Consultant and step back waiting for opportunities to personally mentor.

If you need tools, here is a matrix for them:

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PpjBd5YkUuSrhnocO?e=RkTjBd


URGENT REQUEST....If I get a message that you edited something, that means you didn't download it to your hard drive, rename it and your edited work may have saved on my OneDrive....please...this is a trust issue.  

We need you to use anything that is helpful to you in your calling, just email us and tell us you are trying it out.  Otherwise, we just have a name...and a document that has been changed and we won't be able to share this way....

I have a few names of people who have edited the Relief Society check list "to the temple" which can be saved as any AUX for an excellent checklist, but not easily if someone has already altered formulas or titles.....



You are welcome to download and use them.  Please don't change any of the verbiage as it is just as it appears in the handbook, or straight from our notes from our meetings in Salt Lake City.  Once you download anything, please change the name slightly by adding a 1 or if you DO make a change, our one drive will try to save it over our originals.

Here is the pdf of the presentation with clickable links


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Here is the audio and presentation - the one with Zoom failed miserably and we only recovered 2 minutes.  Better luck next time.


We discussed

  • Ward Council Meetings and who should now attend.



Thursday, August 13, 2020

The important role of the Stake Temple and Family History Consultant

 The important role of the Stake Temple and Family History Consultant


All callings have incredible value to their Wards and Stakes, but we've noticed that the Stake TFHC has the most contact with the outside world and we value their kindness and friendliness to their Community.  

Did  you know that Genealogy is considered the 2nd most popular hobby in the world?  A lot of people in and out of the church agree with this.  Though....it's difficult to see where the polling came from to substantiate the truth, I choose to believe it.

“ …hobby experts believe that genealogy ranks second only to gardening as American’s favorite pastime.” --
-- ABCNews

According to ABCNews, genealogy is second to gardening in terms of popularity.

USAToday discusses the roots of genealogy’s popularity

This makes the contact points between the Stake Libraries and Consultants and the public crucial.  When calling someone to that calling, YOU are the PEOPLE PERSON that Elder D. Todd Christofferson refers to in this quote about callings.  Of course, he is more general speaking about all family history consultants, but consider the fact that you have the most visibility to non members, you should be on your toes to reach out and befriend new families and friends to help them with this amazing hobby.  

“If I were a bishop again, my approach would be to charge the [TEMPLE AND FAMILY HISTORY LEADER] high priests group leader with the responsibility to lead out in the ward council on this subject. I would ensure that we had one or more . . . family history consultants who were ‘people persons’ who could work under his direction. . . . I imagine that in the course of a year we could help at least ten families. In five years, we could have a corps of fifty families active at some level in family history and its attendant temple work. That to me would be a successful, well-run program.”
Elder D. Todd Christofferson

We will discuss this more on our ZOOM meeting this Saturday at 5 pm Arizona Time.  Here is the invitation.  Though we have 9 Stakes, we have a large membership room on Zoom and invite others to come and share what they have done in these COVID19 times to help increase awareness about genealogy and encourage non members to seek out the gospel.  We hope you have been watching our previous 2 zoom meetings about inviting the Missionaries to help you so that by the time someone is interested in baptism, they already have over 100 names to keep them busy for the entire first year of membership right up until they are sealed (if that is their desire) or take our their endowments.

See you Saturday!  This is our meeting ID and Password:
Ted and Karen Meyer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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URGENT REQUEST....If I get a message that you edited something, that means you didn't download it to your hard drive, rename it and your edited work may have saved on my OneDrive....please...this is a trust issue.  

We need you to use anything that is helpful to you in your calling, just email us and tell us you are trying it out.  Otherwise, we just have a name...and a document that has been changed and we won't be able to share this way....

I have a few names of people who have edited the Relief Society check list "to the temple" which can be saved as any AUX for an excellent checklist, but not easily if someone has already altered formulas or titles.....



Monday, July 13, 2020

Notes from our Zoom Meeting

Housekeeping rules first - thanks for reading:

URGENT REQUEST....If I get a message that you edited something, that means you didn't download it to your hard drive, rename it and your edited work may have saved on my OneDrive....please...this is a trust issue.  

We need you to use anything that is helpful to you in your calling, just email us and tell us you are trying it out.  Otherwise, we just have a name...and a document that has been changed and we won't be able to share this way....

I have a few names of people who have edited the Relief Society check list "to the temple" which can be saved as any AUX for an excellent checklist, but not easily if someone has already altered formulas or titles.....



Thank you for coming and learning more about how to help consultants. We added two slides from Brother Ballard's letter of May 25 which discusses the organization plus the introduction of the Stake Melchizedek Priesthood Committee for Family History which will be at the delegation from the Stake Presidents and they will each decide what members of Committee will be in charge of. If you notice the letter was very vague about their responsibilities but the President will undoubtedly use his Priesthood Authority to discern their abilities and direction. The HC over FH will still work with the Stake Consultants to help the Temple and Family History Leaders and Consultants. And yes, he can delegate the training to a very knowledgeable Stake Consultant who will work under his direction.


A lot of Questions about Stake reorganization! We are working on answering the questions.
This is what we know... This link will show you what our Stakes are doing. It seems to be really successful!
CLICK HERE FOR OUR 7-11 Zoom meeting
HERE IS A PDF OF THE AFTER NOTES AND PREVIEW OF NEXT MONTH'S TOPIC



Elder Ballard's Letter - May 25, 2020  Some of the Temple and Family History Leaders, Elders quorum Pres and Relief Society Presidents asked us if they could see this.








Here is a link to our Stake FHC file - You are welcome to download anything you feel is important, but you cannot change the verbiage.   Please do not make any changes unless you speak to us.  If I made a typo, please tell me.  

 


I asked my friends at yammer.com if they could help us get the word out about the new FS Partner

There is a new Family Search Partner. We discussed it Saturday in our Zoom - it's for French Research called Filae - I signed up and within 48 hours they were sending me the links that finally tie my DNA to my research. It's great! If you want to know more about it, watch our Multi-Stake Zoom on our youtube:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22yz4YPVAn8 Right about the time this was released there was a great Family Search article on exactly that - Can someone get a message to the author to go back and edit that great article and add that members should sign up for the FREE new Partner Access called FILAE (then anyone, please, tell me how to pronounce it) I'm calling it filet like the fish...? https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/french-records-history/ thank you - When you let the Multi-Stake Consultants know these things - we really love to help you get the word out. We love you - FS is doing such amazing things!




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 

That's 8pm NEW YORK AND FLORIDA and GEORGIA TIME
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A Consultant's First Steps...

 
Greetings from Scottsdale, Arizona!  Karen and I hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July.   We wanted to share these thoughts...
    
     This country provides freedom for everyone to choose their path or re-brand their lives to a changing and technologically advancing society. A ditch digger can become an IT professional or a medical professional or start a business. That person freely practices their belief in the Almighty and can live next door to someone of another faith and greet them as a friend. We call others of many races our colleagues, neighbors, and friends.  A family can relocate to anywhere they desire. The framers of The Constitution of the United States created in its framing, those freedoms and liberties proffered to each of us. They can be used for good or not.  The words of Abraham Lincoln are as true today as they were Thursday afternoon 19  of November of 1863.

     "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

14990In 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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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
https://1drv.ms/x/s!BDS2RGb0p-4PoGezZVKLhlMRAwQz?e=EoNYxG

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 that


6.  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 it

7.  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

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 ...