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“Just Cuz!”
A family history project
where you get to
be a
“Detective”
What are you looking for?
The goal is to find all the descendants
of your parents, or one set of your
grandparents or great-grandparents.
Most of these will be your cousins.
Hence the name
“Just Cuz!”
Objectives
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To help you learn who your living relatives are that
make up YOUR FAMILY.
To help you identify, find them, make contact and
exchange information such as pictures and stories.
Why?
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To strengthen the family. After Mom and Dad pass
away, the extended family takes on greater
importance. Sometimes they are the only ones who
can or will offer support and help.
You may also find deceased family members whose
temple work has not yet been done. Make sure you
get permission from the nearest family members
before doing this work. No permission – no work!
What good will it do?
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Getting connected with your extended family of aunts,
uncles and cousins will give you a sense of belonging.
God designed families as the basic unit of society for
many reasons.
Fostering extended family relationships can provide
many benefits to all concerned. Great joy and
satisfaction can come from getting acquainted and
sharing your lives together.
Holidays are usually family centered. If your
immediate family is not close, look to your extended
family.
More Objectives
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In your doing this, you will need to talk first to
your parents in order to get information about
your ancestral family. We are hoping that by
doing so that your parents or grandparents
may then get interested and begin to do
Family History work.
Many people say
“I don't know who my cousins are.”
Finding these cousins can be fun and you will
learn new skills that will be be valuable in doing
ancestral research as well.
Let's get started!
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Start by going to the Family History Lesson Series.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/wel
come/site_resources.asp%3FwhichResourcePage=fhlesso
nseries
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Read the first lesson- Perform Descendancy Research
After selecting an ancestor enter all known information in a
Personal Ancestral File (PAF). Download a free copy from
here:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/wel
come/simplePAFRegistration.asp
Talk with your parents, grandparents and other family
members to obtain more information.
How to start a PAF file
http://lds.netdimensions.com/ldslive/nd/fresco/repository/EKP000033941/CreateNewPAFFile_Ste
Using the Internet
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Read Lesson 7 of the Family History Lesson Series
Use the Internet for Family History Research
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?page=home/wel
come/site_resources.asp?whichResourcePage=fhlessons
eries
This will gives you some tips on how to use the internet to
help find your cousins.
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How to find living relatives for free.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/77069-relatives/
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View other lessons in the Family History Series for
additional ideas and suggested activities.
Record any new names in the PAF file.
White Pages
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Using the White Pages on the internet you can
search for people and their phone number and
address in several different ways.
http://www.whitepages.com/
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Many times it will tell you associated people
which may help you determine if its the person
you are searching for.
Just for fun type in your name without a location
and see how many people have your name.
Recording contact Information
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In the PAF file for each individual is a Notes
section. Use this area in which to record
contact information:
Mailing address
email address
phone number
etc.
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You can also place any other information about
this person in the notes section such as stories.
How to Add a Note to PAF
http://lds.netdimensions.com/ldslive/nd/fresco/repository/EKP000033941/Notes_steps.pdf
Adding Pictures
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If you can obtain a picture then these people
will really begin to come alive for you even
though they may live a long ways away.
Pictures can be added so that when you click
on one of your cousins, their picture will appear
next to their name. This will really help you to
get connected to that person.
Bro. Ken Phillips of our FH Center Staff is our
expert on adding pictures and will be happy to
help you do this.
How to add Multimedia to PAF
http://lds.netdimensions.com/ldslive/nd/fresco/repository/EKP000033941/Add_steps.pd
f
Using PAF to print charts and
reports and even a book!
http://lds.netdimensions.com/ldslive/nd/fresco/repository/EKP000033941/PrintPC_steps.pd
f
How to turn off LDS data
If you are not LDS or just want to turn off all the
LDS data, you can go to this link to see a demo
and step by step instructions for doing that:
http://paftutorial.byu.edu/
Down the left hand side, under Additional
Preferences, select General and view the demo
and step by step instructions to turn it off or on.
How to turn on Relationship Indicator
You can set the Relationship Indicator to show
how you, or any other person that you designate
as the root person, is related to any other
person in the PAF file.
http://paftutorial.byu.edu/
Go down the left hand side to Additional
Preferences and select File and then watch the
demo and step by step instructions to see how
to do this.
The relationship of the two people will show
automatically at the lower left side of the PAF file
in the status bar.
Map 'em!
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A fun thing to do is to plot their locations on a map.
This is also a good place to put contact information
which then can easily be shared with others by simply
supplying them with the link to your map.
Go to Google Maps and learn how to make your own
map showing where all your cousins are located.
You will have to study to learn how to do this.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=Tl
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Click on My Maps to view a short video tutorial to get
started.
My Strange Cousins
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Here is a demo link to some of my Strange
cousins so you can see how it looks:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF
8&msa=0&msid=203665651833645300166.000
49b92955a86fb6e291&ll=43.197167,104.414062&spn=33.035861,56.513672&t=h&z
=4
For just one set of grandparents there are over
200 descendants.
I have left out lots of details such as phone
number, email address and other notes that I
could have made on the map itself.
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What to do with this information
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You could write a family history of either
yourself or you and your cousins.
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Create and maintain a family website.
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Create and edit a family newsletter.
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Help plan a family reunion
(you have contact information!)
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Make a digital picture book of the family.
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Make a family board game – ask Google!
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Give support (emotional, spiritual, financial, etc)
to a family member who is struggling.
Print your genealogy on
one large sheet!
Standard Pedigree
Descendancy Chart
Others
Up to 3 ½ x 6 feet!
Let your family
reunion see where
everyone fits in!
http://www.onepagegene
alogy.com/
Becoming a “Forever Family”
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Do you ever fight with your brothers or sisters?
Usually these are just a passing thing but sometimes
they go on and on and may divide the family for years.
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Family members stop talking, reunions are not held
and the family drifts apart.
Resentment becomes a mountain when it only started
as a mole hill.
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Don't let this happen in your
family!
Forgive that you too may be forgiven.
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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