November NASW Family History Newsletter

 

The brethren are asking us to send them info on these areas:

1) looking for testimonies of faith from doing yout family history work.  They would like to do some videos about family history.

2) They would like to know which wards and Stakes are trying to follow Elder Ballard's request to organize your Family History from the Stake down with the President calling men to hold positions in a Melchezidek Priesthood Committee representing all wards.

Please send us an email so that we can organize a report for them.  naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com

Last night's blog on Using Family History to increase the Spirit in the Home, and get kids excited about their ancestry is listed here:

ZOOM MEETING 11-14-20

POWERPOINT FOR TRAINING OTHERS

PDF WITH ACTIVE LINKS

Thanks to all of you who participated in last month's zoom about Partner Access.  There are so many who still do not know what this is or how is can benefit the members.  We hope you will go back and check our previous blog to refresh your memory so that you can train others how to do this great work.

This Month's ZOOM Meeting will be all about helping Families making Family Night more interesting with the underlying motivation of keeping the kids engaged to WANT to learn more about

1) their Ancestors

2) How to appreciate their living Ancestors

3) games that teach about family history

4) all the above in concert with the goal of helping 11-year-olds (whether it is your own or your grandchild), get ready for YW and YM.

As we know, every January marks the graduation from primary for all eleven-year-olds who will be turning 12 in the year 2021.  

This link to our November Family History Newsletter will peak your interest and get you primed for a great Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 5 PM ARIZONA TIME

https://mailchi.mp/88256c3b1b67/keeping-children-excited-and-engaged-in-family-history

Also, in this newsletter is your chance at fame (ok not fame and fortune)....however you will be rich in blessings should you undertake this challenge!

The family history video department is looking for your testimonies so they can create stunning, motivational videos about how family history enhanced your life!

Read our newsletter for the directions and how to upload your self-video!  Good luck!

October Zoom meeting will be held October 10, 2020 at 5 PM Arizona Time

 INFORMATION FROM TONIGHTS ZOOM MEETING IS BELOW!

click here for our October Newsletter

Do you ever feel like the heaviest person on the see-saw? Not able to achieve the perfect balance in life? We've all been there. You are busy at work trying to find the 2nd husband of Aunt Idabel and little person tugs at your sleeve.

"Mom, when will you be done? You said we could go to the park!"

"Not now, Tommy, Mommy's almost got the answer to the big family questions. I've got to fix my family tree!"

Well, sure, you need to spend time with family on BOTH sides of the veil, but remember that later in life you will miss the little things that happened while you were pre-occupied with Aunt Idabel. This is the most important work you will do...raising your family and fixing your family tree. How do you get a balance? You do so by learning as many tips and tradeoffs that you can so you can spend less time researching and more time getting results an- thereby having more time with your children now! How do you do that? Well, our Zoom this month is about learning how to use the gifts you have been given. Partner Access is literally a gift to you from the Church. Seriously, we used to spend upwards of 600 per year on research tools and memberships to various websites. Now it's free. Do you know that about $800 per year now is given to you as a member? Come to our Zoom meeting and let us show you how to achieve a balance on the scale of life?

Information is in our Newsletter for October. Do you have that yet?

naswfamilyhistory.blogspot.com

Also, catch us on facebook.com/NASWFamilyHistory

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING - OUR NEXT ZOOM WILL 

BE THE 2ND SATURDAY IN NOVEMBER ON 

"HOW TO KEEP THE KIDS FROM FALLING ASLEEP DURING FAMILY NIGHT!"

PARTNER ACCESS

ZOOM PRESENTATION WITH LIVE LINKS REFERRED TO IN ZOOM MEETING

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppm-Mgzo1jz8-QC5R?e=eDB4w1

pdf of full zoom presentation

ZOOM BROADCAST (WILL BE UPLOADED AFTER 7PM)

WATCH THE ZOOM MTG

ACTUAL POWER POINT TO TRAIN OTHERS ABOUT PARTNER ACCESS

WHEN STATES ENTERED THE UNION

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppm7EvlKFuzaf3gOb

Here is the Research Template we mentioned

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PpnLD-Nv9iendDOqg?e=sxd4ZY

Notes from our September Zoom on Primary will be here at 5-6 pm 9/12/20

 

Primarily Primary for 2020

Our September Zoom Meeting will be on September 12, 2020 from 5-6PM Arizona Time  

WATCH THE MEETING HERE!  

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What DID we cover?

     How many ways can we introduce Family History to Children?  How do we teach them to value their family experiences?  What have you been doing to increase your family connection while COVID19 has been rampant?  Grandparents get lonely without family connections - This presentation will not only be great for Primary Presidencies but for families in general to give them ideas for success!

     Part of family history is teaching how to document events with family for others to read in the future.  Activities with Grandparents can be precious and more so when their voices are recorded and uploaded to the Memories section of Family Search.  During the presentation, we will explore different ways kids can experience Family History

     Primarily Primary is a program that we created to help the young 11-year-olds who will be transitioning in January to the Young Men's' and Young Women's' programs.  Giving them a little heads up on genealogy terms, and having consultants work with the family, great things can be learned just by playing some of the Family Search apps.  

This Zoom will cover:

• Primary Counselor over Family History role
• Handouts on the links in our presentation
• Handouts to use in working with the youth.
• Suggestions for goals a young primary child could have for the project to pick from.
• Certificates of Excellence are available if you want them

Also, we will give you links to these from our One Drive.  Please send us an email before you download anything.  Thank you.  

The PDF of this event will give you links to what we discuss.  

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PixPdjrcl6WoBk58V

Link to Primary Tracker only:

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PjEINOg1ihCw-5DLe?e=ac4AQA

Primary 2020 Tracker

Basic Genealogy Terms will be covered

Info sheet for the Counselors to get to know the family better when helping with FH or playing games where the leader needs to know the answer.    "What State was your Mother born in?"

Check lists for success

Optional Certificate for their book of Remembrance

It's here if you want it.

Link to Primarily Primary Files

Remember to download to your system and change the name so that you do not change our Templates.

NASWFAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER

 This link will take you to a clickable PDF with active links

OUR SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER FOR 2020

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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

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

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

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppi-KfVrz-D6Nm_ur?e=ZXaqGP

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.

 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.

Topic: NASWFAMILYHISTORY - Zoom Meeting

Time: Aug 15, 2020 05:00 PM Arizona

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Please let us know you are coming so if there is more than room provided we can schedule a 2nd 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.....

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!

https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PkD5CScFm-wdJMDKt?e=whbFwV

CLICK HERE FOR OUR 7-11 Zoom meeting

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HERE IS A PDF OF THE AFTER NOTES AND PREVIEW OF NEXT MONTH'S TOPIC

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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.  

 

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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!!!

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

THAT'S SUNDAY MORNING IN AUSTRALIA - ABOUT 10 AM

THAT'S 5 PM IN CALIFORNIA

THAT'S 6 PM IN UTAH

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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 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  Ted and Karen Meyer are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86809579984?pwd=c2h3S2I5R2lnVlhNRXVEUU1DbmRaQT09 Meeting ID: 868 0957 9984 Password: 096686 One tap mobile +16699006833,,86809579984#,,,,0#,,096686# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,86809579984#,,,,0#,,096686# US (Tacoma) Dial by your location         +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)         +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)         +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) Meeting ID: 868 0957 9984 Password: 096686 One tap mobile    Let us know you are coming!  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0544AEAF23A3FE3-helping1

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  Ted and Karen Meyer are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86809579984?pwd=c2h3S2I5R2lnVlhNRXVEUU1DbmRaQT09 Meeting ID: 868 0957 9984 Password: 096686 One tap mobile +16699006833,,86809579984#,,,,0#,,096686# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,86809579984#,,,,0#,,096686# US (Tacoma) Dial by your location         +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)         +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)         +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) Meeting ID: 868 0957 9984 Password: 096686 One tap mobile    Let us know you are coming!  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0544AEAF23A3FE3-helping1 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!   Copyright © 2020 NASWFamilyHistory, All rights reserved.  You are receiving this email because you are in the Family History Program of your Church - If you no longer want these emails please unsubscribe on the link in your email - thanks!  Our mailing address is:  NASWFamilyHistory 8727 E Amelia Ave Scottsdale, Az  85251 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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