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Favorite Reads of the Week: 18 June 2016 – Father’s Day, genealogy podcasts, family history miracle

Father’s Day Father’s Day for the Fatherless by Jacqueline White at Ruby Girl – “I purposefully keep the complexities that created his chaotic life alive in my mind and memory so they can be instructive to me.” Father’s Day Gifts: Past and…Presents! at the Ancestry Blog – “Check out this slideshow to see how these favorite Father’s Day gifts have shifted to suit the modern dad.” LDS What the apostles’ children have said about their dads at Utah […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer June 18, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Create Your Own Research Guide

Do you research in the same state over and over? Do you ever find great information on the web that you’d like to save but don’t know what to do with it? Do you have stacks of papers you’ve printed out for future reference, but you can’t find them now? If you answered yes to any of those questions, maybe it’s time you created your own research guide. A research guide is a collection of […]

By Diana Elder June 16, 2016 Accreditation, Organizing, Records, Research Tips

Helping Others Get Started in Family History

by Nancy Kirkpatrick I’ve been thinking about a few things that I believe have helped people get started in family history. I have done these things at different times through the many years I have served as a consultant (or friend) to try and help people feel inspired to do family history work. First is bearing testimony. When I last served as a consultant a couple of years ago for our ward family history […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer June 14, 2016 LDS Family History

Family History is for Everyone Spotlight: Retired English Teacher and Storyteller

by Ana Maria Cannon Stories That Bind Us One of my fondest childhood memories is sitting outside at night on the front porch, listening to my father tell jungle stories. Dad worked as a geologist, drilling for oil and water in countries around the world. As a young geologist right out of college, he landed his first job in the Amazon jungle. It was there that his daily experiences evolved into some of […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer June 13, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History, Family History is for Everyone Spotlights

Favorite Reads of the Week: 11 June 2016 – Indexing, Heirloom jewelry and decor, Evernote table of contents

Indexing Giving Back: Indexing & Transcription Opportunities for Genealogists by Heather Collins at Young & Savvy Genealogists – “Check your favorite repositories–local, state, regional, and national–to see what they need from you.” Straight Talk About Arbitration at the FamilySearch Blog – “By removing the arbitration results number, we lose something of value, but in our view and in the view of most indexers who were surveyed, we gain something more important and substantial.” Creating and Sharing […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer June 11, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Track Your Family with a Timeline

Feeling a little bogged down with your genealogy research? Need a fun project for the summer that just might have the added bonus of helping break down a brick wall? Try creating a timeline for your family. I had finished writing the report for my first generation of my accreditation project, but I lacked any mention of church records. Those are important for researching in the south, but my family moved around so much in […]

By Diana Elder June 9, 2016 Organizing, Research Tips

7 Family History Gifts for Father’s Day

What are you giving your dad this Father’s Day? Here are some ideas that won’t take long but can be made meaningful by including a little family history. This post contains affiliate links. If you click the link and make a purchase, we receive a small commission but it doesn’t change the price of the item. Thanks! Custom Bottle labels Use an old photo of Dad or another family photo to customize his […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer June 7, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History

Amazing Race: Family Reunion Style

Do you need to inject some life into your next family reunion? You might want to try adding an “Amazing Race” element. In today’s guest post, Ann Jeppson, shares ideas that you could adapt for your next family adventure. – Diana by Ann Jeppson My father’s family has lived in Lehi, Utah for four generations, so we have a lot of family history that is connected to the town. We wanted the younger generations to feel […]

By Diana Elder June 6, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History, Families and Children, Family Reunions

Favorite Reads of the Week: 4 June 2016 – How to teach history, talking about DNA at family reunions, writing your last words

Research Tips Don’t Wait to Write Up Those Notes – by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day – “Time spent writing up your notes is not wasted. Wasted time is what is spent later trying figure out why on Earth you did certain things or in spending an hour to reach the same conclusion you did earlier a week ago when you were actually researching.” The Biggest Mistake in Reading Old Handwriting – and How […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer June 4, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

How to Do an Ancestor Skit Night at Your Family Reunion

Last year, my grandmother planned a reunion for her ten children and 50+ grandchildren. I asked her if we could include some family history activities during the week and do a “family tree gathering,” so she put me in charge of Family Home Evening on Monday night. I wanted to plan an activity that all the adults would enjoy and even the smallest children could be involved in too. After giving it some thought, I decided that acting out […]