Have you been wracking your brain trying to figure out a way to teach your teens how to do family history?  Maybe you need a fun way to involve your youth consultants in teaching others how to do family history?  After I had completed the Mission Possible activity with all of my ward youth, I […]

  Have you ever wondered why you are asked to type a reason statement every time you change information or add a source to the FamilySearch (FS) Family Tree?  Are you a genealogist frustrated with the collaborative aspect of FS Family Tree because others can change your information? If yes, read on. I teach a beginner’s class during […]

  Do you have a family heirloom sitting around gathering dust? Curious about the ancestor who owned it?  Are you trying to find some ways to interest your teen in family history?  Introduce them to this month’s Instagram challenge at makefamilyhistory.org and watch the magic begin.  Teens love social media.  Combine that with a fascinating […]

Have you tried the fun little website called Grandma’s Pie? If so, you might be wondering how I changed the pie chart it generated for me from the orange color scheme into this blue one: In this post, I’ll show you how. First, for everyone who hasn’t seen Grandma’s Pie before, here’s a little introduction. When I […]

  Do you have a quilt in your closet with no clue who made it or why?  Or maybe you have a stack of clothes from a loved one that you’d like to make into a quilt? Either way, a quilt can be a lasting way of preserving memories. I have a rich heritage of […]

Today I want to share one of my favorite apps from the FamilySearch app gallery – Puzzilla! Puzzilla.org reads the data on your family tree and creates a compact, bird’s eye view of your pedigree. This is interesting for viewing your ancestors, but it’s incredible for viewing descendants. There is no better way to visualize […]

Need a way to involve your youth family history consultants?  How about introducing family history to children from three to eleven? We combined both of these objectives with a Primary Sharing Time! In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the organization for children age three to eleven is called Primary.  As part of […]

Do you have pioneer ancestors who joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) in the 1800’s and came west to join the saints in Zion?  The LDS church began emphasizing family history about 1890, so you may think that those branches of your family tree are complete and accurate.  Just looking at […]

  Our stake has been focused on teaching the primary children ages 8-11 how to do family history, and our youth consultants are taking charge of teaching them. So I created a lesson plan for our youth family history consultants to use as they teach at the children’s homes. The lesson invites the children to become […]

Our ward is working on a temple challenge to find a family name for temple work by the end of November. I think it’s important to talk about the difference between searching for a name and surfing for a name. —Searching: Finding records that reveal relatives not yet in Family Tree. Adding them to the tree, checking for […]