Saturday, October 29, 2022

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



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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!

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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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Time: Oct 8, 2022 05:00 PM Arizona

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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


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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

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ZOOM PDF WILL BE HERE


ZOOM SLIDE SHOW WILL BE HERE


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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








Friday, July 8, 2022

THANK YOU ALL FOR BLASTING BACK TO THE PAST!!!!!

The following article also has the zoom recording in audio and visual,
it has a 3 page handout for anyone who would like to teach the class.

                                                             ZOOM back to the past!!! 

We will show you what life was like, and how you can get closer to those relatives by studying what they did as well as get clues to their existence off the 1950 census.  This is the first census that has used handwriting Artificial Intelligence to decipher the census data and record it in typewritten form for us to review.

That is all you are doing - just reviewing how the AI did it and if you agree you simply give them your affirmation then move on to the next one.

Now that the 1950 Census is out, the church has been asked by Family Search to motivate your whole ward to help finish the indexing so that it can be released to the public.  The fun part is, that you can select any portion you wish.  You can select your old neighborhood when you were growing up, or your parents as well.   That would be an interesting family dinner conversation if your son or daughter said, 

..."Dad, I was wondering if you remember the Smead or Goldberg family who lived on your street, you know, Crosswood Road when you were about 10  years old?"

 After you pick Dad up off the floor, you'll be able to tell him how you learned about them  - then show him how to do the new indexing "FROM HOME" which has never been easier.   

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THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT (SATURDAY)  IT WAS REALLY FUN TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS YOU TREASURED IN YOUR FORMATIVE YEARS 


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Friday, June 10, 2022

Does your research match your DNA?

 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TO OUR ZOOM TONIGHT

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!  NEXT MONTH OUR ZOOM WILL BE ON THE 2ND SATURDAY AS ALWAYS AT 5PM SO SET July 9, 2022 aside.





  












We hope to see you online ON June 11, 2020.  IT's a short presentation then we will open up the floor to discuss anything you like.



 You can ask us about the Family History Fair we just put on for our Stake - it was so much fun.  If I can have fun in a wheelchair, you can help a Stake reach out to their community!




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Sunday, June 5, 2022

See how President Nelson's talk about inclusion motivated us to do good works

 

Ted and Karen Meyer, Area Temple and Family History Advisers,

Scottsdale Arizona Coordinating Council

Wanting to become a more faithful follower of President Nelson, and wanting to do good works, we prayed about the word “inclusion” and this was our answer. We hope it is yours too. To include the Community in your mission plans is “inclusion” at its finest! With members inviting their friends and neighbors, how can that miss? If what we did seems like it would work for your Stake, email us. We took notes on every step, what worked and what didn’t and we will share them with you - let us know what you think.

President Nelson encouraging us to e inclusive
Click for President Russell M. Nelson ‘s talk

In President Nelson’s talk in April of 2021, he Latter-day Saints charged with
” ‘removing the debris’ through kindness, inclusion and Christlike love”.

When a ward or stake is planning a family history event there are basically two choices. One would be an “all hands on deck” helping each other in the ward to gather names, teach how to reserve them and print them out right there for them. We call these the “Family History Linger Longers”. However, this type of event can be exhilarating for the members but can overwhelm a person being taught. They can’t quite reserve any ordinances, their FS membership doesn’t even show them, so they feel left out.

So our challenge was “through love and inclusion”, as President Nelson requested us to bring in the Community and give them the opportunity to learn more about their families and “Celebrate their Families”, through love and friendship. We used our especially targeted plan for putting on an event like this. We have thought of the smallest details to make it an amazing experience. So if this sounds like fun to you, please ask us for a copy of our Event Flow Playbook.

Having a Family History fair for the Community…was so rewarding!

It's a choice opportunity to be able to participate in these events. We met such wonderful people today. Some were even from as far as Texas, San Tan Valley, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe, Phoenix, California, and even Utah and Wyoming.

After praying on how we can be an influence for the good the answer we kept getting was, start in your own Stake. Our Stake President was such a positive keystone in this friend building bridge! We spoke to the High Councilor over Family History and showed him our playbook we had been keeping. He loved it and he echoed the President’s to start planning. Last October was the first and May 21st was the 2nd we hope of many of these Community Family History Fairs.

Our Stake team are experts from each ward, in the areas they represented and so much more. We were so grateful to have so many people being taught. I had this brainstorm that we could make tickets and have the missionaries hand them out. Our Mission President loved it and the Zone leaders were on my porch ready to hand out 200 tickets we printed out on our printer within the hour. You see, the Prophet is right again -(right - he’s always right!), not only inclusion should be our mantra but that missionary work and family history work are ONE work! (see Rootstech Leadership Meeting 2020 video with Elder Bednar and Elder Renlund voicing these exact thoughts)

Our visitors today, (May 21, 2022) were not just people from our stake but many people near and far who were non-members and had been seeking a way to find information on their families. To be able to give that gift to them was a particularly choice moment in our lives. A lot of new bridges to friendship were built today and Ted and I are so grateful we were involved in such a great community event. Thank you all who participated!

Advertising was a fun challenge. We did any type of blog, local events planner, Facebook, Twitter, an Instagram which were free. We made videos showing what would be displayed and shared. The most important part was to be a good listener and help them Celebrate their Family. An example, one booth was just for Memories. The team member would ask the visitor to tell them a story and would type it into Family Search for them and show them how easy it is to connect to other family members so they could share in the celebration.

Regrets? Only that we were so busy we didn't have a chance to go around and take pictures of the booths (of which there were 13). Some of you who came to our last Zoom meeting saw our plan of action at work today. Thank you Br. Cashen for not only taking pictures but also doing some exit interviews.

Our Video for advertising for free: https://youtu.be/am37IQ857f8

Positive Takeaways

1 This year we added table numbers matching the directional map. These were at each booth for the helper to guide them based on one question, “What would you like to accomplish for your family today?” plus

2 I made all new signage for the tables. You can see the table numbers in the pictures.

3. We also added monitors for each booth. Ted bought 4 but then for those consultants without a computer, he and the director brought out a couple of computers from the center.

4. We noticed that as we worked on a patron's family tree, they were very excited to participate when they were able to see because the monitors were all facing them. It was fascinating and watching the Stake helper perform gained the trust of the visitor..

5. Our team really worked so cohesively together - each enjoyed the experience. What brought it all together were the gorgeous decorations from Julie and Ken Keith.

  1. We got a ticket template off the internet and printed our own tickets to be handed out to the Missionaries - roughly 200 for 6.95. Did the zone have 200 contacts? You bet!

All in all - special thanks to Ron Watkins, the HC over Family History, (for his patience and for singlehandedly setting up every table before we got there with the table cloths and centerpieces, signs) Ray Cashen, Mlee R. Clark, the Family History Center Director, Spencer, and Megan Irvine, Fabian Foote, Ann Wilmeth, Bryant Scott, Terry Canova, Mike Girand, Jay Curtis, Lexieanne Swapp, Eric Anderson, Eric Brown, Gwyn Knowles, Fran Johnson, Barbara Girand, Julie Marriott, Ken Keith. We were missing two because of illness, Ted Keller and Priscilla Sanders.

For the Stakes we represent, we have everything we need to recreate this adventure at your Cultural Hall for your Wards. Please ask us!

BOOTH TITLES

#1 - in the overflow, we created a kid's section and they loved the game boards about family history which we created.

#2 - Membership records and Login/password help for Family Search. At this booth I also provided little 3 x 4 leather notebooks that I picked up for less than .50 each. This way, they could leave knowing that little notebook was something they should always bring to their family history center.

#3 This was Partner Access - our team members helped the members who had not heard of this gift sign up and then taught them how to use the bridge method to increase accuracy and decrease time at research. Let us know if you would like to learn this.

#4 This booth was about showing members how to capture memories and upload them to their family search accounts. With the new Family Group settings, it is now possible for someone to share their memories with their family while they are alive.

Click here to see our blog and sign up for more tips and hints on how to make Family History fun while helping others. naswfamilyhistory.blogspot.com

#5 Ancestry and Ancestry DNA was my booth. I was thrilled to show them how they could align their research with their bloodlines and for the most part, Ancestry DNA has proven very helpful in figuring out if you are on target with your research matching the bloodlines.

#6 This was one of my favorite booths. if you have ever accessed the BYU lab/ applications and played with stories.familyfoundapp.com you know what I mean. As you enter your family search login and password, it brings all your information into the app and pulls out any stories about your family that you would not normally know were there. At this booth we taught how you could pull out family stories and publish a book on Amazon for free. Ask me!

#7 - Printing service - for cards, names, or anything you needed, as well as scan pictures to a drive you brought, or one of our flash drives at 2.00 each.

#8 - We had the Director, Mlee print down a person's fan chart then go over the chart and show what needed to be fixed and how to fix it.

#9 - Puzzilla.org - how to use it for descendance research

#10 - Demonstration of My Heritage colorization of pictures. Here is one we like to show because the change is so dramatic

#11 was the new online indexing method in hopes of educating more people to help with the 1950 census. Which (at this date of publishing) is at 70% completed due to volunteers.

#12 - this was Scrapbooking - a very real way to journal one's life. Fran Johnson stands out in our ward as someone who has achieved excellence in her 86 years of scrapbooking. We were very proud to show her work to inspire others. Scrapbooking is a great hobby because it forces us to organize categorically and chronologically. If you have problems with the organization of various things or know a person who suffers from ADHD, this is a great way to help your kids with this diagnosis. It's calming, and without really them knowing you are teaching them a valuable skill.

#13 As we did in October because of the good ideas from another Stake - Mesa North Stake, we incorporated Grandma's cookies. Several members of the ward, and this is open to the community as well, bring a well-favored and beloved recipe that they remember Grandma making for their family when they were young. Not stopping there, and realizing that it takes a village to raise a child, this person of choice influence could be an Aunt, a Sister, or any person who influenced your life - a fun way to honor them.

Our Testimony

As you are deciding what activities your Stake could have to show President Nelson that you are employing the value of inclusion in your Missionary efforts, we hope you will consider having a Family History Fair. You could enter it on your Annual Ward Family History Planner! If you need one after watching this, email us.

https://youtu.be/n-AHj7jTCNo

It is our testimony that as you learn, grow and accept the challenges you are given as tomorrow’s realized blessings, you will be a force for good in your community. We believe that Elder Kevin Hamilton, Elder Renlund, Elder Stephenson and Elder Bednar’s inspired vision of family history, ministering to all you meet, (2020 leadership meeting) will help plant the seeds along the covenant path. Using Temple and Family History as a way to reach out and minister to others you will relate to our Executive Director of Temple and Family History, who read the words of the Prophet, then said “This is what success looks like, when we use family history to help gather Scattered Israel.” ~Elder Kevin Hamilton, Executive Director of Temple and Family History.

We say this in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ

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 ...