Transcript Family history

D & C 110
Verse 9 – Jesus
Hearts of thousands shall rejoice
Verse 11 – Moses
Keys of Gathering
Proclaim the Gospel
Verse 12 – Elias
Dispensation of Gospel of Abraham Perfect the
Saints
Verse 13 – Elijah
Sealing Keys
Redeem the Dead
When the Spirit of Elijah is
brought into any activity it
sanctifies that activity and
brings the person or
persons involved additional
power to bless their lives
and fulfill their needs.
1. Research
2. Indexing
3. Writing your Personal History
4. Collecting Family History Stories
5. Keeping a Journal
6. Attending the Temple
7. Documenting Family Records
8. Scrapbooking
9. Photography
10.Letter Writing
11.Family Organizations
12.Family Reunions
13.Serving a Family History Mission
"In the work of redeeming the dead
there are many tasks to be
performed, and ... all members should
participate by prayerfully selecting
those ways that fit their personal
circumstances at a particular time. ...
Our effort is not to compel everyone
to do everything, but to encourage
everyone to do something"
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve,
"Family History: Wisdom and Order", Ensign, June
1989, pg 6.
“The Spirit of Elijah is
the Holy Ghost
testifying of families.”
Steve Rockwood
What Family History items should be
on a PEC or Correlation Council
agenda?
Dear Presidents:
In our efforts to “enable salvation for the dead by
performing ordinances” of exaltation on their behalf, we
desire to foster a spirit of family history work among the
saints of all ages. This will require that our bishops
consistently focus on this divinely appointed
responsibility that rests upon the Saints in our day. To
assist the bishops in this effort, I have attached a
document that I hope you will share with each of them
which suggests ways that they can move this work
forward on a ward basis. In addition to distributing this
document to all of your bishops, please consider using
this document in your bishopric training meetings.
We hope that the Ward Family History Consultants
will become increasingly active in teaching the Saints
in their homes of the process and tools that are
available to prepare family names for essential temple
ordinances. The Gordon's are available to assist you on
a stake basis in training your high counselors and high
priest group leadership in how they can organize and
carry out their responsibilities. They are also available
to meet with you in bishopric training meetings. May
the spirit of Elijah be poured out to an even greater
degree in your stakes as you and your bishops move
forward in faith.
Gospel Love,
Elder Cherrington
Memo for Bishops
Dear Bishops
In your work of “perfecting the saints” you may find Family
History to be both helpful and vital. It is yet another tool to help
you. The following are suggestions on how you can use Family
History to bless your ward members.
• Encourage your ward members to take family names to the
temple; the process has been simplified. Ask your Family
History Consultants to show your Ward correlation Council
how to do it and set the example for your ward. The web site
is: new.familysearch.org
• Consider calling ward members to serve as Family Search
Indexers. (They will need Internet access in their homes.)
Homebound, less active, YSA or others may enjoy this calling.
The web site for Indexing is: familysearchindexing.org
• Consider calling multiple Family History Consultants for your
ward. You can send Ward Family History Consultants into ward
member’s homes to help them learn to use New Family Search.
This can be done regularly. Ward Family History Consultants can
also teach the Family History class during Sunday School time.
• Ask your counselor over Family History and the High Priest
Group Leader to report regularly as an agenda item on Family
History and Indexing activities in the ward.
• The Utah North Area Family History Advisors are
Richard and Cristal Gordon. I encourage you to invite them
to come to your stake where they will provide training for
your priesthood leaders and those with callings related to
Family History. You can reach them by email at:
[email protected], or [email protected];
or by phone at: 435 753-6614 (Home), 435 770-7924 (Richard’s
cell), 435 770-7925 (Cristal’s cell).
Are all ward/stake leaders registered on
New.FamilySearch.org?
Indexing Reports
Are Family History web sites listed in the weekly
ward bulletin?
new.familysearch.org
indexing.familysearch.org
What families could the Ward F.H. Consultants be
assigned to contact to assist them in preparing names
for the temple? (Perhaps the Ward Correlation
Council could be first.)
Report on families contacted by F.H. Consultants
this past week.
President Eyring on the “Joy of Family History Work”
In an excerpt from the Training Video for Family History
Leaders, May 2000 Elder Henry B. Eyring said:
“When you help a member trying to do family
history, don't see that single person. See
hundreds and perhaps thousands of their
ancestors who will be praying to be found and
liberated. And think of the faithful missionaries
who have waited with them. As you do, you will
feel not only the urgency of your service but
confident that prayers, some from this side of the
veil and more on the other, will be answered.
Even in Utah, 17 percent of the members are
converts. In the rest of the United States it is
nearly half.
Outside the United States and Canada, it is more
than 90 percent who are converts. Their conversion
brought joy in the spirit world and hope to their
ancestors that the long waiting would end. I pray
that you would sense in your service the sound of
people shouting for joy. The Prophet Joseph saw
when he was alive what he must feel even more
now. Let your hearts rejoice and be exceedingly
glad. Let the earth break forth into singing. Let the
dead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the
King Immanuel who ordained before the world
was that which would enable us to redeem them
out of their prison, for the prisoners shall go free
(see D&C 128:22).”
“In conclusion, the future of this work, I see the records of the dead and their
histories gathered from every nation under heaven to one great central library
in Zion…the largest and best equipped for its particular work in the world.
Branch libraries may be established in the nations, but in Zion will be the
records of last resort and final authority. Trained genealogists will find constant
work in all nations having unpublished records, searching among the archives
for families and family connections. Then, as temples multiply, and the work
enlarges to its ultimate proportions, this Society, or some organization flowing
out of this Society, will have in it’s care some elaborate, but perfect system of
exact registration and checking, so that the work in the Temples may be
conducted without confusion or duplication. And so throughout the years,
reaching into the Millennium of Peace, this work of salvation will go on, until
every soul that can be found from earthly records will have been searched out
and officiated for, and then the unseen world will come to our aid, the broken
links will be joined, the tangled threads will be placed in order, and the
purposes of God in placing salvation within the reach of all will have been
consummated.”
Nephi Anderson – Secretary of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1912