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This past year, we had a lot going on. We were released as Area Advisers after seven years and gladly would have done it 10 more. Karen survived 6 surgeries on her hip, I survived two cruises with her :) - one to Alaska and the other to the Caribbean. It was difficult with her walker, but she was a trooper. A surgeon sewed her leg on crooked, gave her a spiral fracture of the femur, repaired it and sewed it on crooked again. She was in a wheel chair for 5 months, one used too much cement fixing the ensuing spiral fracture of her femur and it wouldn’t heal, then a physical therapist lifted her leg to high and broke off her greater trochanter. She had six transfusions, a couple of quick visits to the hereafter for more instruction and through all of this adversity, she actually kept smiling and knowing Heavenly Father would heal her. Thank heavens she is still with us. While on one cruise, we got word that we lost her 99 year old mother after a long battle with macular degeneration. We were going to leave the cruise early but her brother told us to stay. When we did finally leave, we got home and thought we should take a Covid test. It was not the best week of our lives but Heavenly Father healed us and we started working on our Stake Family History and Genealogy Fair.
This past year, we had a lot going on. We were released as Area Advisers after seven years and gladly would have done it 10 more. Karen survived 6 surgeries on her hip, I survived two cruises with her :) - one to Alaska and the other to the Caribbean. It was difficult with her walker, but she was a trooper. A surgeon sewed her leg on crooked, gave her a spiral fracture of the femur, repaired it and sewed it on crooked again. She was in a wheelchair for 5 months, one used too much cement fixing the ensuing spiral fracture of her femur and it wouldn’t heal, then a physical therapist lifted her leg too high and broke off her greater trochanter. She had six transfusions, a couple of quick visits to the hereafter for more instruction and through all of this adversity, she actually kept smiling and knowing Heavenly Father would heal her. Thank heavens she is still with us. While on one cruise, we got word that we lost her 99 year old mother after a long battle with macular degeneration. We were going to leave the cruise early but her brother told us to stay. When we did finally leave, we got home and thought we should take a Covid test. It was not the best week of our lives but Heavenly Father healed us and we started working on our Stake Family History and Genealogy Fair.
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We’re excited to be a part of another Family History Fair for you and your friends to learn more about your ancestors. If you happen to be near Scottsdale, AZ this weekend, April 27, 2024 we would love to see you at our free community event.
We recently told you that Genealogy was the third most popular hobby in the world. We were wrong. Actually, it’s more exciting than that!
Did you know that Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the world? Familysearch.org will give a free access to build a as it has 13.9 million users, there’s always room for a few more! They get 7 million page views daily.
This ticket can be given via text and email and a whole family can gain entry to a new world of discovery.
Help them by sending them a VIP ticket and they can show their phone at the door.
At Grandma’s Cookies table we will be collecting names and emails to send out an ebook of recipes. Ward members please bring a plate of cookies of a favorite family recipe (Bring on a card or paper). If you want to include a cute quote or anecdote from that person it will be in the book as well. Bring cookies, bring or email the recipe to the event and we will create an extraordinarily creative cookie-cookbook !
It has been exciting to touch so many lives with these fairs. The Mission Presidents love it and we give the Missionaries 200 VIP FREE tickets to give out. We also encourage them to bring people being taught to the Stake Center during the week so that we can help them find names.
It is true - what Elder David A. Bednar asked us to do in 2020 we have been encouraging others to do the same. He said “Every new member should be prepared to go to the Temple within 60 days of baptism with their own names.” We have truly seen miracles happen when they are prepared. They stay active for a whole year going to the Temple with the names we found before baptism. The consultant becomes their best friend in the ward and goes with them. If you would like to know more, please email us and ask about the Sample Stake Family History Plan we did.
We hope you will play this game as a family. When you upload your FS login and password, suddenly the game will be about your family. Do you know what county Aunt Betty was married in? Did you know that Uncle Joe was named after his father? You will know the most amazing things when you are done!
Think all your work is done? We have a site which wonderfully helps us to stay on task and PLUS now - we have this tool. It will disinfect your gear, it will kill your after work snacking appetite. Ok maybe it won’t do that, but if you have cousins on one of those cities with a link this app will chase them down for you.
We know you will want to check this out. We put the video on our youtube site so you can watch it without loading up your hard drive. image with a photo related to or associated with the news.
Please let us know what you find! Email us at meyerandmeyerconsulting@gmail.com
In our Family History Fairs, we always added something amazing which not too many people know about. What if you could open your Family Search Tree in an app that revealed to you all of the stories and memories ever written about your family members, coordinating all with others who have joined your tree? Well, that gift was momentarily taken off the web until we complained and showed them how it could be a valuable family history asset for members as well as non-members to plant seeds of bonding with their ancestors. Now, it's back:!!!!!!
Go to this app - It will ask you to enter your FS login/password. Now Watch with amazement as the blue dots form in your tree fan. It literally turns your tree upside down and shakes out all the stories (no, not the nuts). The stories appear on the sides. Click a dot or click a story. Now here's the magic. http://stories.familyfoundapp.com
Download the stories to a Word document. Go to kdp.amazon.com and pick out a template for a small book - probably 5.06x7.81 or 6/9. Import your stories to the template - add a table of contents and page numbers. In your bibliography, make sure you note the author of the story. Print down these real paperback books from Amazon for "author's price" of 2-3.00 or Tell your Amazon Author page to your family and let them order themselves. This would be a great christmas present.
I was just reading a question on the Temple and Family History Consultants site asking about favorite maps used in family history research. More importantly, think outside the box. If you can’t find any info on your person it may be that it doesn’t exist in that point In TIME. If grandma documented the child was born in a certain state, the records won’t be in that state if it hadn’t been admitted to the union before that date.
Try this:
Look at the other parents, married city/county,older kids birth places and make a list: name, dob, city, county, state
2. Check the date of each state when it became a state at our link below:
3. Where is the most logical place for birth record?
4. Look at adjacent states and check dates. Jot them down on your grid
5. Look at county lines for shifting lines w dates
You may find that your family member was born in the state next door!
Look with an open mind. Relatives offering dates with out documents aee so well meaning but you and I know how to sleuth out the truth.
Things to Ponder: On your family history reports, here is what to look for:
Low youth numbers: most of the time the reason why the youth numbers are so low is because they don't want to re-create the wheel. They think that they have to start from scratch so they don't even want to start their own tree. What you need to do is show them that once they start their tree when they get to the first person who passed way, then all of a sudden their tree will expand exponentially and then they won't have the feeling like they're starting over from scratch. If they use their parents login, your numbers will never go up.
Converts: If you see low numbers, you should've been working with your mission leader, and TFHleader, to assign consultants to that person being taught to get them to the temple within 60 days with their own names after baptism. if you find enough names while they're being taught, then they will have enough to last them an entire year of keeping active if you don't and depend on the Ward to fellowship them, you're gonna lose them. Your Consultant is your best bet to keep them active. The Temple and Family History leader assigns them  to go to the stake center and learn more so now your convert has two people, the stake consultant and their ward consultant that they can go to the temple with the convert.
If you need a 60 -day tracker, ask me for one I have a great one.
David A Bednar told us at the 2020 Roots Tech that the First Presidency wants all converts to go to the Temple within the first 60 days after baptism with their own names.
3. # of people who printed at least one name per year. If a wife has added her husband's name to her tree with his family, so she can print down the names for the family then the husband will never be counted as someone who printed at least one name per year 
4. Young Single Adults - These numbers are usually low because they are so transitory. Many move at the end of each quarter either back to home or to a new location and ward. So if your card is only counted one time....it's not going to get counted again in the next ward.
Yes we have been released as Area Advisers, but our Elder Lythgoe has asked us
to continue helping others no matter what the boundaries are.
You can reach us at meyerandmeyerconsulting.blogspot.com
and our email is meyerandmeyerconsulting@gmail.com
Any email that goes to naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com will be forwarded to us, but we prefer you use our new email.
We just love helping you all too much!
WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE AND USE OUR TOOLS
TO HELP YOU IN YOUR CALLING.
BELOW, I HAVE ADDED THE ONES MOST PEOPLE REQUEST. IF THERE IS ONE YOU DON'T SEE, LET ME KNOW.
meyerandmeyerconsulting@gmail.com
We have been working with our Stakes and the additional 6 which now make up the Phoenix East Coordinating Council. We gave a great stake some tools today and thought you might like them as well!
THE AREA SEVENTY OVER THE ADVISERS AND FAMILY SEARCH MANAGERS FEED INFORMATION TO THE AREA ADVISERS. THEY ARE INSPIRED AS TO THEIR AREA - THE DIRECTIONS BELOW ARE JUST A REITERATION IN PICTURES OF THE HANDBOOK 2022
The Area Advisers pray about what to show the Stake Presidency. The Stake Presidency uses or chooses other options as they have utilized their personal revelation for their Stake
this is the most requested info and praised by leaders in New Zealand, the USA, Australia, and Canada to help them understand their calling. The verbiage is from the Handbook.
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Two Men - One War - One amazing story
Lt. Michael Concannon March 29, 1924 - May 25, 2006
First - let me apologize for the way this is formatted - blogger sometimes is very difficult to edit...
The way Angel’s work…
I thought you would like to know why we feel Douglas’ story of his ancestors was appropriate for Memorial Day. He was guided and led by great patriots who came to this land to escape oppression at the hands of other countries (Russia). They were extremely loyal to this country and true patriots. Otto, his grandfather actually died in Salt Lake City – was he a Church Member? We will find out! There are so many ties between my father and his service to this country and this young man’s family. The spiritual feeling I felt as I researched his tree was not imagined. I felt their guidance.
Here’s the Story.
I am an author on Amazon and recently finished another adventure in clean reading for any age group. It's a time travel book called, “A Matter of Time”, which is now on Amazon. You can read about the premise on one below in the clean reading section of this page, but for now, I'll just address the part which involves my soldier. One of the characters, an agent, gets transferred from the dungeon in England in 1660 to the shores of Hawaii before he became a state. He is so grateful to be out of the dungeon, he asks the Scientist what his assignment is, as he will do anything to keep from going back. She reveals to him that he, indeed is in Hawaii now, but that his assignment will be to help a young man who escapes death while aboard the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to heal, write letters to his brother and inspire him to do something great to help others in their lives.
I needed a character to be a survivor who is saved from one disaster only to help others in the future and when I went to the USS Arizona Survivor page, just because I am in Arizona and my father was actually born in Tucson, Arizona), the name of the Ship leaped off the page. Then, of all the survivors, I was drawn to Lt Cmd. Douglas Hein, who was a sharpshooter and his father was a Boxing champion – so was my father. Then I found out that his family was from the Netherlands on his mother’s side. That was just a quirky coincidence. My father in 1945 was in The Philippines and was one of the 11th Airborne 82nd who rescued over 2000 Dutch and Christian missionaries from a Japanese Prison camp on Leyte Island, a secret mission organized by General MacArthur, by parachuting into the camp while the Japanese were doing their exercises from an altitude of only 500 feet at dawn. On the History Channel, the story has been made into a documentary called Raid at Los Banos, Rescue at dawn. Douglas lost his last battle as a pilot over Manila Bay in The Philippines and his name is engraved on a plaque or wall on that island in Manila coincidentally, where my father reported from the jungles of Leyte Island at the end of the war.
It's been 13 years from yesterday, May 25, 2006, that my father, Michael Concannon passed away and while I was investigating this young man’s family, the entire time, I felt like Douglas Hein wanted us to know more about his father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather and the sacrifices they made through their patriotism in leading and protecting our country. Each of them had a distinguished Military career of sorts. The novel aside, the work we do is so precious and priceless and those who have gone beyond the veil are waiting for us to realize this and do more family history for our families. Those choice blessings won’t be seen until we step across, but we can feel the influence of angels when we do this for our kin. I can only pray that Doug’s Grandfather was indeed LDS and that his family is going to work soon on this line. The research I did for them has set it all into play to make it very easy for them to link it to Family Search.
I hope to meet him one day and thank him in person for the gift of his ultimate sacrifice and for protecting our freedom.
~Karen S. Meyer
I created a free puzzle for you to give out for your kids to do. Or adults may enjoy it. I am not sure it's that simple! Just right-click on the image below and SAVE IMAGE - Then you can print it and play it. If you need a fun YSA activity or Youth activity to teach Patriotism and respect for our Country and the Soldiers who protect us from tyranny and oppression at bay, please consider this Escape Room Activity or you may enjoy one of my other ones. People seem to love them!!!!
To create your own puzzle for your primary or any other class - go to: DiscoveryEducation.com
We have 3 to choose from: Escape From Crystal Caves, The Ghost of George Alley (Help Sally find her Great Great Grandfather) or Escape from Pearl Harbor
We will send them to you electronically and you can print them. That way you can also tweak them if you feel you need to change what the locks, bags or boxes look like for the clues.
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The DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) has a College Scholarship Sally would like to apply for. First, she must prove lineage to someone who served in the Revolutionary War.
They only know that his cryptic messages he has left in the attic
may be the key to either some serious treasure or may even lead them to documentation which could land Sally a College Scholarship, being the Great, Great, Great Granddaughter of a Revolutionary War or Civil War Hero.
Help them uncover the treasure
Complete game plan - laid out in Powerpoint, Word, and all the clues - ready to put on this week if you want. You just supply the various locks and props that are in the script. Loads of fun and without realizing it, the YSA or YW/YM get some lessons in how to research using keywords and valuable life learning tools!
I searched for locks and lock boxes and puzzle boxes. Then I tried them out on all my kids (we have 12! So that was easy. I asked them to all give these a try and watched how long it took them to open them. One was a Physics Masters Graduate. He finished all three in less than 10 minutes. Everyone else was done in about 20-25. Now my goal is to keep the YSA busy for at least an hour, so I have enough of these twists and turns in my program to do that.
You can use whatever locks you want. You can change the pictures of locks or clues. It's all changeable except the story line.
Each game has over 100 hours of research and dovetailing - It is a lot of effort to work out all the twists and turns so I don't feel guilty charging for my time to create and prepare this for others. Feel free to email me and ask questions.
Karen S Meyer,
genealogymama1@gmail.com
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GAME #3
ESCAPE FROM CRYSTAL CAVES
Escape from the Cabin near Crystal Caves!
This is a fun YSA activity or any group interested in Family History.
It takes place in 1925 and is a real story about Floyd Collins. He loved to explore caves in the Kentucky Mountains and decided to turn one into an Amusement Park. This real life tragedy happened to be the first American Tragedy broadcast on Radio. Every night people sat around the radio to listen and hear if Floyd Collins would escape from the cave where he had fallen and was pinned below ground in between rocks.
All of America listened and prayed. People journeyed from all over the earth to kneel at the cave entrance and pray. It almost turned into a carnival-like atmosphere with thousands holding vigil. As you search for the hidden treasure, you find out more about his life and his family and part of the exercise is to put together a pedigree with the information. Each Lock Box or secret location gets you one clue closer to finishing the pedigree. Before you know it, you've completed 4 generations.
All answers are on Ancestry.
I did the research myself and all the documentation requested is there in the file and on Ancestry.
This comes with a PowerPoint to use for printing out the clues for the Players, a PowerPoint that shows the Game Master (You!) how to put it together, and how to discern any questions about the clues.
It comes with a clue and budget sheet to show how much props might be and where you might find them
It also comes with some handouts for participants from an Emeritus Seventy
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