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Favorite Reads of the Week: 23 April 2016 – Mother’s day gift guides, Grandma’s aprons, Ancestor celebrity look-alikes

Mother’s Day is coming up and I’m sure we’re all thinking about what to get Mom! After writing my post about 10 Easy Mother’s Day Gifts Using Old Family Photos, I found four links to more Mother’s Day gift ideas, including questions to ask your Mom if you’d like to write about her life for Mother’s Day. Three of the articles I read this week talked about the memories that come from a grandmother’s apron. […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer April 23, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

How to Include Family History in Every Family Home Evening

This week, I wrote a guest post for the Chicken Scratch n Sniff blog – a resource for strengthening families and teaching in LDS wards. In the post I talked about how our family has started sharing stories with our kids each Monday night about ourselves, grandparents, and other ancestors to help illustrate the topics we’re teaching for Family Home Evening. Grandma Nona being a good samaritan, an answer to prayer on Grandpa’s mission, and so […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer April 21, 2016 LDS Family History

Probate 101 or The Real Life Drama of the Thomas B. Royston Estate

Are you a bit intimidated by probate research? Have you located a will but neglected to find the “rest of the story?” With probate records being digitized by Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, chances are you have some exciting discoveries to be made. Did you know that the Probate Estate packet of your ancestor can be a real page turner? Or should I say, “next image” turner. I made a huge find recently when I searched for my ancestor, Thomas […]

By Diana Elder April 20, 2016 Records, Research Tips

10 Easy Mother’s Day Gifts Using Old Family Photos

As a family historian who likes to share what I’m working on, I often have big ideas for holiday gifts – books full of stories and photos of ancestors, unique family tree charts, and photo pendants with beautiful ancestor pictures. These are fun and rewarding to create but if you haven’t planned far enough in advance, it’s easy to run out of time. Also, after FamilySearch CEO Steve Rockwood’s talk at RootsTech about sharing 1 minute stories, I’ve […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer April 19, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History

Family History is for Everyone: Business Owner & Mother of Five and Her Daughter

Do you want to get started in Family History but you’re nervous about the time commitment or your abilities? Do you feel overwhelmed whenever you think about just getting started? Today I’d like to spotlight my friends and neighbors, the Rickenbach family. We belong to the same LDS ward and I’ve worked with their family for the last several months doing family history. Craig and Corinne took my beginning Family History Sunday School class in […]

By Diana Elder April 18, 2016 Family History is for Everyone Spotlights

Favorite Reads of the Week: 16 April 2016 – Youth doing family history; Ancestor devotion; Wearable genealogy tech

I read several articles this week about how children and teens benefit from family history in some form: teaching others family history, interviewing grandparents and great grandparents, school projects, and close relationships with grandparents. Two articles I enjoyed were about Chinese roots – the ancestor devotion aspect of Confucianism and the benefits Chinese college aged youth gained from doing a genealogy project and documentary contest. I also thought the article about the future of wearable tech and […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer April 16, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month

Grandpa’s Guns

How do you help a child who has lost a beloved parent or grandparent? In our own grief do we sometimes dismiss that of our children? This week I wrote about dealing with the loss of loved ones by creating forget-me-nots, memorials to help keep our loved ones present in our lives. I thought of my sister, Nancy, and her son, Ty. He was just twelve when his grandpa died and he really suffered from the […]

By Diana Elder April 15, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History

Creating a Memorial to Your Loved One – A Review of “Passed and Present”

Losing a loved one is part of life. Living without that loved one is also a part of life, but how can you keep their memory alive in a meaningful and appropriate way? Allison Gilbert, author shows us how in her new book “Passed and Present.” (This is an affiliate link. If you click the link and make a purchase, we receive a small commission). We love the book so much, we want to give […]

By Diana Elder April 12, 2016 Creating and Sharing Family History

See Yourself in the Temple – Family History FHE Lesson

Elder Quentin L. Cook talked about the joy of doing family history work and preparing for the temple in his April 2016 General Conference talk, “See Yourself in the Temple.” I’ve created a family home evening lesson plan that you can use with your family to discuss this important topic. “The combination of increased numbers of temples and advanced technology to fulfill our sacred family history responsibilities for our ancestors makes this the most blessed […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer April 11, 2016 General Conference, LDS Family History, Youth and Primary

Favorite Reads of the Week: 9 April 2016

My favorite article this week is about genealogical education opportunities. Check it out! There’s a Degree in That?? Genealogical Education Opportunities | Legacy Tree At Legacy Tree Genealogists, our core team members have at least one of the following: a genealogy or genetics-based degree, a professional accreditation, or a minimum of ten years’ professional-level research experience. While our educational pursuits have prepared us for our current careers, there are many people who don’t know that such […]

By Nicole Elder Dyer April 9, 2016 Favorite Reads of the Month