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Bob's OverviewOf
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.
A simple process: 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 overThose 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 readhave No Advantage overThose 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 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 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 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.
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 “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
Where to Get Help Follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost Family History Consultants Family History Centers Begin with the FamilySearch internet site
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 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.
Record information from your memory.
Be sure to verify your info by comparing it ...with other sources. Memories fade and are not always accurate.
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
Family group records, pedigree charts, books of remembrance or ancestral tablets.
Family Bibles Journals, diaries and letters Personal histories and life sketches Family histories Old photographs Obituaries and newspaper clippings Birth, marriage and death certificates Household registers and tribal registration papers
Boxes! 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.
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:
What info. has already been gathered about your family Which ordinances have been completed Which ordinances need to be done 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
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
Must be deceased for at least one year Given name or surname Gender And enough info to uniquely identify the person
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
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
Conduct the interview in person if possible. If not, then contact by phone, By letter or By e-mail
Chapter 5 contains info on how to: Contact the family member Prepare for the interview Conduct the interview Use the information
Ch. 6 – Gathering Info from Public Records
Public Records to Search Vital Records – Birth – Marriage – Death Census Records Immigration Records Newspapers Church Records Cemetery Records There are many more that can help you
Pray for Guidance Choose an Ancestor Use Record Selection Table in Appendix C Find the record Useful records can be stored in:
Family History Centers Libraries Archives Churches Courthouses 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 Policies for Preparing Names for Temple
Work 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: Spouse (un-divorced) Children (Adult) Parents Siblings
Determining which names to submit Immediate family members Direct-line ancestors (parents, Grandparents and so
on and their families)
You may also submit: 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 After finding and entering all required information into New
FamilySearch, you are ready to prepare a
Family Ordinance Request
(FOR)
form to the temple 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 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 ChartFamily Name Phone
Johnny Banana555-1212 Jul/09 PAF Yes Aug/10 Part Yes Yes
Phone # no good
Mar/10 PAF Yes Mar/10
Feb/10 PAF Yes Mar/10 1 Yes
Feb/09 PAF Yes Mar/09 Yes
Mar/10 Roots Magic N/A Mar/10 Yes Yes Yes Yes 1
Jul/09 PAF after school starts
Aug/09 No Computer May come to FHC
Jun/10 Not Interested
Mar/10 PAF Jun/09
Nov/09 Ances Quest N/A Nov/09 Yes On Going
May/10 PAF Yes May/10 Yes Yes Yes Yes 1
Apr/09 PAF Yes Jun/09 Yes On Going Yes Yes 1
Nov/10 Too busy for FH Will do Indexing 2
Feb/09 PAF Feb/09 Yes
Contacted Family to offer help mmm/yy
Genealogy Software being
used
If PAF Show them Family Insight
Registered on NFS mmm/yy
Completed all NFS
Tutorials mmm/yy
Verify and
correct Records
Show how to make
Fam. Ord. Request
Able to find names to submit to temple?
Number in Family doing
Indexing
SS Family History Class
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 Of this program
plus Bob's Ward Family History Progress Chart with
a Quarterly Report Bob's Overview of Family History
Bob's Duties of Family History Consultants Indexing Flyer
And more!
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