The New Family History Class!

Have you ever attended a family history class? One of two things probably happened:

1. You came out feeling the Spirit of Elijah and wanting to do family history, but you had no idea how to get started.
2. You came out bored to death, because the monotone-voiced teacher simply clicked around on a screen for the entire class.

We have a solution for you: new family history certification lessons that beautifully combine the doctrine and electrifying Spirit of Elijah with practical step-by-step instructions on exactly what to do! Watch this short video to find out more.

For ward family history co-chairs and consultants, this blog will give you all the materials you need to successfully hold this class. Your efforts as a teacher will truly change the lives of many people on both sides of the veil!

Certification Lessons

Two of the major responsibilities of ward family history co-chairs are to
(1) train all ward consultants, and
(2) run the weekly Family History Sunday School class.

How do you do this?

Sunday School Lessons

The Stake has developed an excellent set of lessons that can be used to accomplish both of these tasks. Use the Leadership Lesson to train consultants, and use Certification Lessons 1-5 to train consultants and to teach your Sunday School class.

Download the lessons here. Updated 1/17/2016.

Completion Certificate

After the lessons are complete, each class member who has certified receives a certificate of achievement. In order to certify, class members must
(a) index one batch of names, and
(b) print an ordinance request for an ancestor they found.

Co-chairs: Download the certificate here, then change the name and date, and print on the certificate forms that the stake will provide for you.

Lesson Video Links

The Leadership and Certification lessons include a bunch of videos to show during classes. Here is a list of links to all of these videos.

Lesson 1: Indexing

1. FamilySearch Indexing: How It Works
2. Indexing Is Vital
3. FamilySearch Indexing: Get Started
4. FamilySearch Indexing Quick Start Video
5. Redeeming the Dead Redeemed Me

Lesson 2: Preliminary Steps to Finding and Submitting Names to the Temple

1. Temple Challenge & To Turn the Hearts Combined
• To Turn the Hearts
• Sharing the Temple Challenge
2. Menu Navigation
3. Traditional Tree Navigation

Lesson 3: Steps for Finding Temple Names

1. FamilySearch: When Your Family Tree is Empty!
2. Descendancy Navigation
3. Finding Our Cousins: Using New Tools on FamilySearch.org

Lesson 4: Steps for Submitting Temple Names

1. Error Message When Adding People
2. Sourcing a Marriage from the Person Page
3. Quick Start to Reserving Temple Ordinances

Lesson 5: Additional Tools for Family History

1. Preserve Your Photos and Family Memories
2. Quick Start to Memories
3. The Feeding of the 5000

Leadership Lesson

1. Saviors on Mount Zion

Additional Videos

1. Find Our Cousins
2. Discover Your Family History. Discover Your Story.
3. Who Inspires You?

The Blessings of Family History

Welcome, Ward Family History Co-chairs!

We are so excited for your calling! On behalf of the Stake Presidency and the Family History Committee, we welcome you aboard. Doing family history and experiencing the Spirit of Elijah can be one of the most exhilarating experiences of your life. Helping others just makes it better.

This blog has been created to help all of the YSAs in the Bountiful YSA Stake complete their callings. Come here for resources, lesson outlines, activity ideas, and more!

You are in for an amazing experience. Just take a look at the blessings you will receive as you fulfill your calling.

Ward Co-chair Responsibilities

As a ward family history co-chair, you may be wondering what your responsibilities are. If so, you are in the right place. You have five main areas of responsibility, as illustrated below.

Download this Illustrated Responsibilities Outline or the Written Version.
Also, here is an outline of responsibilities for your ward consultants.