BYU Family History Library Classes for October 26, 2014

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BYU Family History Classes

BYU Family History Library

If you are in the Utah County area, BYU offers family history classes on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month. The above schedule is for this coming Sunday, October 12, 2014. Notice the diversity of classes offered! All skill levels are welcome.

Utah County Readers

Here are the Family History classes at BYU for this coming Sunday, August 26, 2012. If you have the opportunity to attend any of them, they will be well worth your time!

What is FamilySearch?

Every Friday I am able to serve as a church service missionary at the BYU Family History Library. At times, we have patrons come in who are curious about family history. Many patrons are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This gives us an opportunity to share why family history is so important and why the church go to great lengths to gather records. Sometimes, I share this video with patrons. It explains FamilySearch, the genealogy and family history arm of the church. I thought that it would be good to share here. I hope that it will answer some of your questions!

Are You Missing WDYTYA?

Brigham Young University
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Are you having "Who Do You Think You Are" withdrawls? Did you know that there are other shows out there about genealogy and family history? For instance, BYU has a show called The Generations Project that you can watch online at any time from anywhere! If you haven't seen it, check it out here!

While you are checking out The Generations Project, cruise through and look at all that BYU TV has to offer. It's amazing! (Nope, no compensation or ties to either The Generations Project or BYU TV)

Happy Birthday Crystal!

Crystal Dawn Melick 1983-1987

Twenty-eight years ago today I became a mother! It was one of the most significant days of my life and I will never forget those incredible feelings of love that I felt for my new little one! I always knew families were important, but at that moment, nothing else in the world mattered. It was a good thing that I didn't know that only a short 3/12 yrs. later, Heavenly Father would call her home. Today, her memory is very much in my heart! I'm grateful for the very brief time that I had with her. I'm grateful for the journal that I kept of her life. I know that with that journal I can always turn back the hands of time, very briefly, in my mind. I'm grateful that the pain of losing her has dimmed and the memories of her life have grown. I'm grateful to know that I will see her again one day.

Merry Christmas!  May you enjoy the Christmas season with YOUR family!

December 2011

BYU Family History Classes for 11 December 2011

Friendly Little Reminder!

BYU Library

This is a little reminder to everyone that attends or wants to attend BYU Family History Library Sunday Classes. You need to register for the free classes so that adequate space can be allotted for each class. Please register by doing the following:

1. Send an email to byu.fhl.training@gmail.com
2. Include in the body of your email:
    Your name
    Date of Class
    Title of Class
    Instructor's Name

Hopefully you have discovered how informative these classes are. If you have, spread the word. If you haven't, set a goal to attend a class!

BYU From Wherever You Are?

BYU Family History Library is such a valuable resource to those who are local AND to those around the world. If you haven't taken the opportunity to see what they have to offer, now is the time. They offer short video presentations on many different subjects as well as helps to get you started AND keep you going! All of this is available 24/7 from the confines of wherever you have an Internet connection. Here is what the BYU FHL desktop looks like:

Notice the navigation list on the left hand side. All of those links provide valuable information about family history. The video tutorials are under the Education link. On the upper right hand corner is a box, "What do you want to do?" If you click that, this is what you see:

Look at all the links to help you out! More links are being added all the time as helpful websites are found. Take the time to really explore this site. I'm sure that you will find it useful like I have!

BYU Family History Classes for 13 November 2011

To All BYU FHL Sunday Class Patrons!

Photo Credit: byu.edu

Beginning November 1st, you will need to register for classes by sending an email to BYU FHL Sunday Training.

Please include in the body of the email:
Your name
Date of Class
Title of Class
Instructor's Name

This change has been made to better utilize the resources and teachers at the Family History Library. Spread the word about this change!

BYU Family History Classes for 23 October 2011

BYU Family History Classes for 9 October 2011

Have You Heard about Billion Graves?

Lase weekend I was able to attend the Saturday seminar held at the Riverton FamilySearch Library. One of the classes I attended was about Billion Graves, a new application created to collect and upload cemetery headstones. Below is the information about Billion Graves that is provided by FamilySearch.org.

Logo Credit: www.billiongraves.com

Cemetery

Application makes it possible to search and display cemetery and burial information.

Volunteers

Application makes it possible for Volunteers to "Give Back" by contributing family history resources to be used by others.

Collect photos of the headstones in your local cemetery with our iPhone or Android camera applications. Then upload the mapped-out photos here. Transcribe information from uploaded headstone photos - then descendants everywhere can easily search for their ancestors. Search for your ancestors' graves using our easy search. You can access their headstone records, photos of headstones, and accurate locations of all the graves. 

Try it out! One more thing you can do with your iPhone! (or Android)

BYU Classes for 28 August 2011

Did You Miss Something?

Dennis E. Simmons
Photo Credit: Ancestry Insider

D. Joshua Taylor
Photo Credit: Association of Professional Genealogists

I wasn't able to attend the BYU Genealogy and Family History Conference this year, although I did volunteer at the BYU Family History Library booth with the vendors. That is always fun, but I really did miss the classes. I particularly hate to miss the keynote addresses that start off each day! So, I though maybe some of you might want to see what the keynote addresses were all about. Right now, two out of the three addresses have been posted here. Scroll down to the bottom and click on download. Stay tuned for the third address. It will be posted soon.

BYU Classes for 14 August 2011

What Do You Want to Do?

BYU's desktop at the FHL has added a new link that is exciting! Take a look at the 4th link down under Navigation and you will see the title "What Do You Want to Do." You will also see that in the new blue box on the right hand side.

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory/

Click on either one of these links and this is what you will see...

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory/finding-sources/

 

 

 

Say you are interested in finding some ancestors that you know were in a pioneer company traveling west. Click on the "Find LDS Ancestors" link and this is what you will see...

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory/finding-sources/#ldsancestors

Look under "Search Pioneer Companies." When you click on the link, it will ask you for the name you are searching. You can also search by company if you know this or the year involved. This is what I found for my William Gimbert Saunders...

http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,4018-1-21111,00.html

Now I can read about this ancestor. Also note under the sources that there is a link to read a trail excerpt. Cool, huh!

There is so much more to this desktop that all I can say is GO PLAY WITH IT! Maybe you will be able to knock down a brick wall with specific sources listed that you didn't know about or that you didn't know how to access!. Isn't the Internet wonderful?

BYU Classes on June 26, 2011

First Year Down!

A Note from FamilySearch!

Riverton FamilySearch Library Open House

Come Celebrate Our First Anniversary!! 

The Riverton FamilySearch Library will celebrate its first anniversary on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, by holding an Open House from 2:30–8:00 p.m. This is an event for the entire family, including family history activities for children, youth, and adults.

Presentations will begin every half hour:

Introduction to the FamilySearch Library and Computer Desktop

Introduction to Indexing

Introduction to the new FamilySearch

Introduction to Family History (Youth)

There will also be continuous video presentations:

The Granite Mountain Vault

Celebration of Family History

Perhaps you have hit a brick wall in your research. Experts will be on hand to give you some new research ideas. With approximately 30 million new records being added monthly to familysearch.org, there has never been a better time to find success.

The Riverton FamilySearch Library is located in the LDS Riverton Office Building at 3740 Market Center Drive. The facility is near the intersection of Bangerter Highway and 13400 South, just east of The Home Depot.

Sincerely, 

FamilySearch