Preserving Your Work

 Please keep your genealogy hard copies (and important journals,scrapbooks, books, photo albums,) in a safe and revered place with instructions that upon your death,  they are not to be "tossed".
Often even before the funeral, many important things are thrown away.
Designate who should get what. Keep your genealogy organized and neat and up to date. Leave your username and password to new.familysearch.org to several interested family members. You can call the familysearch hotline at 1-866-406-1830 to have your newly deceased mother or father or husband's or child's account be accessible to you.

May 5th Family History Conference

We are having a Family History Conference May 5, 2012 at the Apple Valley LDS Stake Center on the corner of Bear Valley Road and Ridgecrest in Victorville, CA

It starts at 9:00 and 

the theme is "I will go and do the thing which the Lord has commanded: FamilySearch provideth the way. 

HERE IS THE SCHEDULE

9:00 AM  Chapel    Welcome, prayer, by Ryan Williams and keynote address by Hal and Jeanne Bradley They will speak to the subject "Using Family History to Bless the Living.

9:30 AM  Room A. (our Center) Basics of indexing

Room B.  (primary rm.) new.familysearch.org   problem solving

Room C. (north end of the cultural hall)  new.familysearch.org for beginners

Room D.  (relief society rm.)   Basics of researching  with FamilySearch

10:10       Break

10:20 Room A.   Indexing the 1940 Census

Room B.  new.familysearch.org problem solving

Room C.  A genealogy worthy of all acceptation: finding and adding reliable sources

Room D.  Using filtering and other FamilySearch tips

11:00      Snacks in the south end of the cultural hall

11:40      Room A  Help with indexing

Room B  new.familysearch.org basics

Room C  Finding and adding reliable sources

Room D. Basics of FamilySearch including Wiki and Forums

12:20     Break

12:30       General Forum: a question and answer session with all presenters in the chapel

1:00 Closing prayer by Ed Hamblin

I will be giving a presentation on using the family search wiki and here is the handout. I hope to have class members decide on what searches to do in the wiki so it will be instantly practical !

 (All handouts from the conference will be given in book form to all participants in the conference free of charge.

Want to know more about  FamilySearch wiki?

Come to room D at 11:40. I will be there and speaking during the last half of that time period. Paul Decker (He's good!) will be speaking first half.

HERE IS MY HANDOUT

(It is very basic so participants may want to take notes on the other side.)


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FamilySearch WiKi and Forums        Joan Hulihan

wiki  (WIK-ee) is a website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content. Wikis are always changing as people add or edit material.Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work. "Wiki" is an Hawaiian word meaning "fast" or "quick".

  Research Wiki

The FamilySearch Research Wiki provides free family history research advice for the community, from the community. The wiki is a free and growing resource fueled by the largest network of volunteer genealogical researchers and enthusiasts in the world.

Join in and contribute to this free and rapidly growing resource that is available to everyone! FamilySearch invites those with expertise in specific genealogical research all over the world to contribute to the wiki. Choose your preferred language, sign in (registration is free), and join many volunteers in making a huge difference helping others with their own family history.

The wiki is available in the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Forums

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.

Forums have a specific set of jargon associated with them; e.g. a single conversation is called a "thread".

A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish.

Depending on the forum's settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum and then subsequently log in in order to post messages. On most forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages.

The Family Search Forums project is aimed at providing the most up to date information to anyone who uses FamilySearch products to work on their family history. Through the Forums anyone can ask questions about product features, research techniques, hints and tips, or even about specific families in specific locations. And anyone who knows the answer can reply. Come participate and give us your feedback. The more who use it the better the information.

The forums are available in the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

           Want to know more?    Joan has ONE word to say:    


     E X P L O R E ! 

               That is how you will best learn about what the Wiki has to offer and how you can contribute. If you don't know where to start, just "Google" Family Search Wiki and click on the first item that comes up. Family Search Wiki home page will open up.  Simply explore the page and all its features. There are videos, articles, helps, tips,etc.  If you type in wiki.familysearch.org into your address bar, that will get you there, too. Joan learned a lot when she clicked on  New to the Wiki? Learn More. Or you can jump write in and type in something in the search bar on the main page!