Family Search Successes

Hard Copy to Digital

The Church recently announced that most Family History Centers in North America are offering a new photo and documents scanning service. This free service will scan, transmit and store your records on your personal genealogical space in high quality digital format. What's more, it only takes minutes. 

Recently the services of Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com. and FindMyPast.com will be made available as a free service to LDS membership.  This is being done over the course of the year and is available to those whose calling has been established for some time.  At present, brother Jennings can assist with these resources.  Over time, they will be available to all members.

If you have not visited FamilySearch.org for a while, you are due for some surprises.  It is easier to submit ordinances for temple work, attach pictures and source documents, transfer new source documents to your ancestors, and look at descendants.  

Quarterly goals now include name submissions.  It appears that it is automatically recorded and credited to the ward when you sign in and submit.  If you do not have an LDS account to sign in to the many sites that are offered, see a member of the bishopric, a clerk, or a priesthood or auxiliary adviser for assistance.

Volunteers are needed to index records.  It is a lot easier than it sounds.  A few minutes at a time is all it takes to assist in this great work going forward.  The 1940 census only took 6 months because of the many who volunteered.

Today's web link:  http://www.genealogyintime.com/articles/best-free-online-genealogy-tools-page1.html

New feature at Family Search helps locate cousins and complete ordinances

The Puzzilla Descendants Viewer lets researchers see descendants in FamilyTree using compact symbols that reveal patterns of incomplete research in collateral-lines. Names and details appear as you move the pointer over the symbols.

• Clicking on an ancestor symbol in the pedigree leads to that person's descendants.
• Clicking on a descendant symbol leads to searching for that person in FamilySearch historical records.
• Shift-clicking on a symbol selects that person and provides information and options for that person in the left panel.

Puzzilla.org provides tools to help genealogical researchers.
The Puzzilla name refers to assembling pieces of a puzzle to complete the whole, the essence of the genealogical research process.
We believe that a genealogical research database should be based on linked identities of individuals recorded in historical evidence records--the puzzle pieces--and not on merged conclusion records.
The Descendants Viewer is a free service and will remain so. The time and expense to create Puzzilla so far have been donated by a handful of people with a passion for helping others succeed in their family history and genealogical research. We plan to offer additional premium services for an annual fee so that we can hire full-time professionals and provide more free and for-fee services.

puzzilla.org

FamilySearch now has over 15 million source documents and pictures.

Photos now called MEMORIES. Over 15 million posts!

FamilySearch has new tool to trace descendants

Try Puzzilla

A Century of Honor - Celebrating Scouting in the LDS Church

A Century of Honor

Free Encyclopedia of Genealogy

http://www.eogen.com/

Youth Temple Trip 2013

The youth had a great time on their yearly excursion doing baptisms at the Washington DC Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sisters Sue Moscynski and Linda Block provided most of the names for the youth - while Harley and Marshall Robertson did their own family names.

YW Learn to Cross Stitch

Sister Angie Bush did a great job teaching the young women to cross stitch. She provided the needed materials, including a darling design she made with the YW colors.

John Suing and Lance Robson Make Eagle Rank

For the first time in at least 40 years Norfolk First Ward has a new Eagle Scout. Make that TWO. John Suing and Lance Robson both earned Eagle and was awarded the rank at their combined Eagle Court of Honor. Afterward we held a surprise missionary shower for them - with each gift being either socks, a tie or a white shirt. WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR EAGLE SCOUTS!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Game Night

Who doesn't love a good game? And Ninja is a great one.