Everything is Different Now!

Well! Almost 2 year have passed since I last posted on this site. Since then I have lost both my dad and my mom (they died 11 months apart from each other), been on so many trips, welcomed a new grandchild, had a family of 5 (now 6) move in with us ( been with us 2 years now)...but mostly...almost EVERYTHING has changed in familysearch.org!  The whole site has a different look...you can upload stories, documents, pictures and attach them to people in your tree. The 1940 census was released and in record time it was indexed! You can search all the census records and more right from the familysearch.org site. Then you can attach the online records and documents ( their URLs...so their links) right to the person's page! You can scan and upload any document and attach it to the appropriate person.
As for me...I have been  s l o w l y  studying the Polish language in hopes of going to Poland some day. I have also started studying the Russian language because there are quite a few record collections in Poland that are written in Russian.

Today I upload a few more pictures to familysearch.org...Here are some pictures of the process.

 Here is my PHOTO Page on my familysearch.org account. I had already loaded a bunch of pictures in the past few months. I had 4 new pictures to add today....see them under the computer.

 Here those pictures are again, waiting for me to scan them on our cheap old printer scanner (hp scanner printer..we have had it for 4 years now). Hint...scan them to your desktop...it makes everything so much easier.

 See those 4 pictures on the left now?  The computer put them all in one file... on the desktop, so I opened the file and there they were...ready to drag into the space I was directed to on the familysearch site.Make each screen page half size so you can do the dragging easy... The area will turn green as you get ready to release the picture after you drag it. Then you will see  indication that it is loading. There, that picture was successfully added. You can also attach a picture from your files.

IF YOU ARE FRUSTRATED, AND NEED HELP DOING THIS,  ASK A TEENAGER TO HELP YOU! Or call me up! 760-241-1420.

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!

Family History Conference

Come to the Family History Conference at the Apple Valley Stake Center! Learn how to use the many wonderful features of familysearch.org. Learn about new.familysearch.org. Enjoy the company of enthusiastic Family History lovers. Bring questions! It's free. Come and hear the opening remarks and then go to the classes of your choice. 9 am on Saturday morning, May 5th. Mark your calendar!
This conference is at the large LDS Stake Center at Bear Valley Road and Ridgecrest inVictorville.

To Turn the Hearts

Elijah

Our whole religion is based upon the fact of immortality. Men have come back from the dead to accomplish the restoration of the gospel. Even God himself came.

First came the Father and Jesus Christ, his Beloved Son. They visited Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove near Palmyra, New York. They talked with him face to face and answered his questions.

Moroni also came, repeatedly, visiting with and instructing the young prophet. Then came John the Baptist of New Testament times. Peter, James, and John were next. Moses came to the Kirtland Temple. And then came Elijah, who was taken into heaven without tasting death.

Each one was physical evidence of the fact of immortality, but each one brought more than the proof of life after death. Each one came with a great purpose—far beyond the proof of immortality. The Father and Son opened this dispensation and provided the knowledge of the true nature of God—that he is a person and that man was made in his image.

Moroni revealed the location of the Book of Mormon. John the Baptist brought the Aaronic Priesthood. Peter, James, and John brought the Melchizedek Priesthood. Moses brought the keys of the gathering of the Jews to Palestine and the gathering of Ephraim and Manasseh.

One of the most important events of this dispensation was the coming of the Prophet Elijah to the Prophet Joseph Smith in the Kirtland Temple on 3 April 1836. He brought the keys of his ministry, but many people have misunderstood what those keys were. President Joseph Fielding Smith explained it this way:

“It is held by some that Elijah came with these keys because he held some peculiar position standing between the living and the dead due to the fact that he was translated. But when Elijah came to Joseph Smith it was with a resurrected body, for he was with Christ in his resurrection. It was not because Elijah held peculiar keys which applied to the dead, that he was sent, but because, as explained by Joseph Smith the Prophet, the ordinances of the Gospel would not be valid unless there was on the earth the sealing power which Elijah held to bind these ordinances in the heavens.” (The Way to Perfection, Salt Lake City: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1931, p. 161.)

Elijah now came with the sealing power to make the ordinances of the gospel fully valid, as President Joseph Fielding Smith explained.

Said President Smith in discussing this matter further:

“Elijah came to restore … the fulness of the power of priesthood. This priesthood holds the keys of binding and sealing on earth and in heaven of all the ordinances and principles pertaining to the salvation of man.” - Mark E. Petersen, “The Mission of Elijah,” Ensign, Aug 1981, 64

http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,8856-1,00.html is a 4 minute video about Elijah's mission.

Go to Lesson 1 and click on the 2nd video listed.

Saving Images of records from Familysearch.org

A Short Introduction To Historypin

Creating a digital history of the world...quite a project at the historypin site! And you can be a part of it all!