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Bob's Overview
Of
Member's Guide
To
Temple and Family History Work
The Primary Purpose of...
Family History work is to find ancestor's names
and perform temple ordinances for them.
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A simple process:
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Gather information to identify your ancestors.
Record information about your ancestors to link
them into families.
Perform temple ordinances for your ancestors who
have not yet received them.
Those who will not read
have No Advantage over
Those who cannot read!
This booklet will teach you, in simple steps, how
to do the family history you have always wanted to
do. As you read and study it, you will become
excited about how the Lord has provided a way for
you to do research and temple ordinances for your
ancestors whether you have a little time or lots of
time. This is the blessing of living in the last days.
Which slide will motivate you – this one or the next one?
Those who will not read
have No Advantage over
Those who cannot read!
Hopefully we will never have to answer a question like this:
“Did I not have my servants prepare a Guide for
you that you might accomplish that which I have
commanded you to do that you might partake of
the greatest happiness?”
It is a “no charge” item – will you not read it?
Ch. 1-The Great Plan of Happiness
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This life's journey would be impossible without the
Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ.
The Atonement enables us to repent and be forgiven
of our sins and to be resurrected.
An ordinance is a sacred act or ceremony performed
by authority of the priesthood.
Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for
admission into God's presence.
Eternal Families are part of the Plan
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God is the designer of the family. He intended that the
greatest of happiness,...should come in our
associations together and our concerns one for
another..
 President
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Gordon B. Hinckley
You have a knowledge of...and have received
...ordinances of the gospel.
Many of your ancestors...have died without hearing
the gospel or without receiving saving ordinances.
Your Privilege …
And responsibility is to give your ancestors this
gift by identifying them and ensuring their
ordinances are performed … in the temple.
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Your effort in behalf of your ancestors is
patterned after the work of the Savior, although
on a much smaller scale.
You do a saving work for them that
they cannot do for themselves.
The Blessings of This Work
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“Today is a day of temple building. Temples will bless
all who attend them and who sacrifice for their
completion.”
President Thomas S. Monson
“The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred
ordinance work... Blessings there will not be limited to
our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our
affairs. We will be eligible to have the Lord take an
interest in our affairs both spiritual and temporal.”
 President
Boyd K. Packer
Ch. 2 - Getting Started
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Where to Get Help
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Follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost
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Family History Consultants
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Family History Centers
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Begin with the FamilySearch internet site
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To Register you will need your church membership
number and your date of birth
 Go to new.familysearch.org
 Add information or change incorrect information
 Prepare ancestor's names for temple work
Note: Clicking on the address will take you to NFS
Ch.3 – Gathering Info. From Home
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Search both: familysearch.org
and
new.familysearch.org
They may already contain information. Review this
information at the beginning...to avoid duplicating work
that may already have been done.
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Record information from your memory.
Be sure to verify your info by comparing it ...with other
sources. Memories fade and are not always accurate.
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This should be done in a personal family history record
program, such as PAF, RootsMagic, Ancestral Quest etc.
It should not be entered into new.familysearch.org until
verified.
Gather Information from Home Sources
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Family group records, pedigree charts, books of
remembrance or ancestral tablets.
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Family Bibles
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Journals, diaries and letters
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Personal histories and life sketches
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Family histories
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Old photographs
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Obituaries and newspaper clippings
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Birth, marriage and death certificates
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Household registers and tribal registration papers
Boxes!
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Get a cardboard box. Any kind of box will do. Put it
someplace where it will be in the way.
...everything that you can find pertaining to your life;
anything that is written or registered or recorded that
testifies that you are alive and what you have done.
Put everything you can find about yourself into one
box ...parents or grandparents into separate boxes.
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Put info about each individual into three categories:
Childhood - Adolescence - Adulthood
Ch. 4 – Recording FH Information
Before temple ordinances can be done for your ancestors,
their data must be entered into new.familysearch.org
The system will then show:
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What info. has already been gathered about your family
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Which ordinances have been completed
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Which ordinances need to be done
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Provide a way to print a Family Ordinance Request that
can be taken to the temple
Allow others to use your information to help them
Help you coordinate with others who are also searching
for your ancestors
Working with a FH Consultant
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If you do not have access to the internet, do not
have a computer or do not know how to use a
computer, you can record your information on
paper forms.
Then you can work with your FH consultant to
get the information entered into FamilySearch.
It is best to use a computer from the beginning
if possible to avoid transcribing errors and to
save work and time
You only have to type and verify it's correct
one time!
Information Needed for Temple Work
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Must be deceased for at least one year
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Given name or surname
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Gender
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And enough info to uniquely identify the person
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May include dates, places, names & relationships
For a sealing to a spouse – given name or
surname
For a sealing to parents – given name or
surname of at least the father
Ch. 5 – Gathering Info from Family
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Your relatives may remember important events
and dates that have not been recorded
They may have family heirlooms, records,
mementos, photographs and other items
They may have interesting stories to tell
Can sometimes direct you to others who
knew your ancestors or to other relatives
you may not know
Interviewing Family Members
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Conduct the interview in person if possible.
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If not, then contact by phone,
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By letter or
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By e-mail
Chapter 5 contains info on how to:
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Contact the family member
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Prepare for the interview
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Conduct the interview
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Use the information
Ch. 6 – Gathering Info from Public
Records
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Public Records to Search
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Vital Records – Birth – Marriage – Death
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Census Records
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Immigration Records
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Newspapers
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Church Records
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Cemetery Records
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There are many more that can help you
Pray for Guidance
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Choose an Ancestor
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Use Record Selection Table in Appendix C
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Find the record
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Useful records can be stored in:
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Family History Centers
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Libraries
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Archives
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Churches
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Courthouses
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Internet sites
Appendix C – page 45
Keeping Notes on What You Find
A research log is a record of where you have
looked for family history information and
what you have found.
A sample research log is included in Appendix A
Research logs help you organize your work
and keep you and others (if you share) from
repeating research that has already been
done.
Ch. 7 – Providing Temple Ordinances
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Policies for Preparing Names for Temple
Work
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One year after date of death without regard to the
person's worthiness or cause of death
Within the last 95 years, obtain permission from
the closest living relative. Relatives may not
want the ordinances performed or may want to
perform the ordinances themselves. The closest
living relatives are, in this order:
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Spouse (un-divorced)
Children (Adult)
Parents
Siblings
Determining which names to submit
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Immediate family members
Direct-line ancestors (parents, Grandparents and so
on and their families)
You may also submit:
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Biological, adoptive and foster family lines connected
to your family
Collateral family lines (uncles, aunts, cousins and their
families
Your own descendants
Possible ancestors ...who have same last name and
resided in same area as your ancestors
Submitting names to the Temple
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After finding and entering all required information into New
FamilySearch, you are ready to prepare a
Family Ordinance Request
(FOR)
form to the temple
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Select only as many ordinances as can be done in a
reasonable amount of time
Then print a Family Ordinance Request form
Take the FOR to the temple where they will print
ordinance cards for you to use to do the ordinance work
You can verify that the work has been done by looking up
that person's name on New FamilySearch
Blessings of Temple Work
“Family history work has the power to do
something for the dead. It has an equal power
to do something to the living. Family history
work of Church members has a refining,
spiritualizing, tempering influence on those who
are engaged in it.”
Pres. Boyd K. Packer
Continuing Your Efforts
“Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause?
Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren;
and on, on to the victory!
Let your heart rejoice
and be exceedingly glad...let the dead speak forth
anthems of eternal praise to the King Immanuel, who
hath ordained, before the world was, that which would
enable us to redeem them out of their prison; for the
prisoners shall go free.”
D&C 128:22
Prophet Joseph Smith
We need your help Today
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The New FamilySearch website allows you to
do your family history work at home.
One Stake President has asked: “Are they
doing it at home or are they just not doing it?”
Your family history consultants are tracking this
work to ensure that everyone has an
opportunity to receive help to find names of
their ancestors to take to the temple.
Without names the temples will cease to operate
Ward FH Progress Chart
Family Name Phone Contacted
Family to
offer help
mmm/yy
Johnny Banana555-1212
Jul/09
Genealogy
Software being
used
PAF
If PAF Show them Registered Completed Verify Show how Able to find Number in
SS
Family Insight
on NFS
all NFS
and
to make
names to
Family
Family
mmm/yy
Tutorials correct
Fam. Ord. submit to
doing
History
mmm/yy Records
Request
temple?
Indexing
Class
Yes
Aug/10
Part
Yes
Yes
Phone # no good
Mar/10
PAF
Yes
Mar/10
Feb/10
PAF
Yes
Mar/10
Feb/09
PAF
Yes
Mar/09
Mar/10
Roots Magic
N/A
Mar/10
Jul/09
PAF
after school starts
Aug/09
No Computer
May come to FHC
Jun/10
Not Interested
Mar/10
PAF
Nov/09
Ances Quest
N/A
May/10
PAF
Apr/09
1
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Nov/09
Yes
On Going
Yes
May/10
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
1
PAF
Yes
Jun/09
Yes
On Going
Yes
Yes
1
Nov/10
Too busy for FH
Will do Indexing
Feb/09
PAF
Jun/09
2
Feb/09
Yes
Please stop by one of the tables
after this program
to update your family's progress
in this sacred work.
Thank you very much
for your cooperation.
May the Lord bless you!
Where to obtain FREE copies
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Of this program
plus
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Bob's Ward Family History Progress Chart with
a Quarterly Report
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Bob's Overview of Family History
Bob's Duties of Family History Consultants
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Indexing Flyer
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And more!
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