Introduction to familysearch.org Week 5

1. Introduction to familysearch.orgWeek 5 Presentation designed by Barry J. Ewell.

2. Introduction

3. Family History Lesson Schedule Week 1 Family History:Spirit of Sacrifice Week 2 Identify Your Ancestors Begin a Personal Record Week 3 Effectively Using PAF—Part 1 Week 4 Effectively Using PAF—Part 2 Week 5 Introduction to familysearch.org Week 6 Introduction to Temple Ready

4. Questions/Comments?

5. Thoughts to Ponder

6. Completion of required ordinances “We want the Latter-day Saints from this time to trace their genealogies as far as they can, and to be sealed to their fathers and mothers. Have children sealed to their parents, and run this chain through as far as you can get it…This is the will of the Lord to this people” (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, 157). President Wilford Woodruff

7. Pray to the Lord to open the way “Let us think over these things, and pray to the Lord to open the way, and the way will be opened by which we will learn about our ancestors. And when the time comes that we have done all we can in a natural way, the veil will be drawn aside, and the Priesthood behind the veil will minister to the Priesthood in the flesh, and reveal many things that we could not ordinarily obtain knowledge of here; but we will get them by this kind of revelation” (Penrose, “Salvation for the Dead,” 18). President Charles W. Penrose

8. www.familysearch.org

9. www.familysearch.org

10. Search on www.familysearch.org The more data you enter-- the narrower the search. Choose to search “All Resources” or individual resources shown. Search Example:1. Search: All Resources 2. Search Individual: Franklin “Marion” Ewell 3. Father of Individual: Francis “Marion” Ewell 4. Country Origin: United States 5. Click:

11. Search: Information return All Resources: Franklin Marion Ewell

12. Search: IGI View IGI: Franklin Marion Ewell Since all of these persons are likely candidates, I began with #1.

13. Search: IGI Individual View IGI: Franklin Marion Ewell Download File View Pedigree Chart View Family Group Record View Each Parents Line View Spouse Line

14. Search: IGI Family Group Record View IGI: Franklin Marion Ewell Family Group Record View Ability to go multiple directions in your family search. Scroll down on page and view children. Unavailable=Person was living at the time of record submission.

15. Search: IGI Ordinance Record View IGI: Franklin Marion Ewell IGI Individual View Ordinance Record Individual View Ordinance Record View requires one to sign in using Membership Record # and Date of Confirmation. **Information can be obtained from Ward Clerk.

16. Search: Pedigree Resource File Pedigree Resource File: Franklin Marion Ewell The Pedigree Resource File is a new lineage linked database of records available on compact disccontaining family history records submitted by individuals through FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service.

17. Pedigree Resource File Detail Pedigree Resource File: Franklin Marion Ewell Family information is organized in family groups and pedigrees and includes submitted notes and sources. Many charts and reports can be printed from this data. With the publication of every five discs, a master index for those discs will be published and packaged with that set of discs. With the publication of every 25 discs, a master index for those discs will also be published and packaged with that volume of discs. Discs may be purchased as sets or volumes.

18. Search: US SS Death Index US SS Death Index: Franklin Marion Ewell Search did not return a U.S. Social Security Death Index for Franklin Marion Ewell because he died before Social Secuirty Program was begun in 1934 .

19. Search: US SS Death Index US SS Death Index: Ora Jones

20. Search: IGI Ordinance Record View IGI: Franklin Marion Ewell IGI Family View Ordinance Record Family View As part of Temple Ready, we will check the IGI Ordinance views to confirm what ordinance work needs has and needs to be done for our deceased kindred family. (More detail when we discuss Temple Ready process.)

21. Conclusion

22. Completion of required ordinances “Get a cardboard box. Any kind of a box will do. Put it some place where it is in the way, perhaps on the couch or on the counter in the kitchen—anywhere where it cannot go unnoticed. Then, over a period of a few weeks, collect and put into the box every record of your life, such as your birth certificate, your certificate of blessing, your certificate of baptism, your certificate of ordination, your certificate of graduation. Collect diplomas, all of the photographs, honors, or awards, a dairy if you have kept one, 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. “Don’t try to do this in a day. Take some time on it…Gather all these papers together and put them in the box” (Packer, The Holy Temple, 232-33). President Boyd K. Packer

23. Accelerated family history work “Going hand in hand with this increased temple activity is an increase in our family history work. The computer in its various ramifications is accelerating the work, and people are taking advantage of the new techniques being offered to them. How can one escape the conclusion that the Lord is in all of this? As computer facilities improve, the number of temple grows to accommodate the accelerated family history work” (Hinckley, “Welcome to Conference,” 4-5). President Gordon B. Hinckley

24. Completion of required ordinances “The exaltation of our Father’s children rests upon the completion of required ordinances, if all are to move forward on the road that leads to immortality and eternal life. The determination of accurate family history records and the work which follows in the temple are basic in this vast undertaking which the Lord has placed upon our shoulders” (Hinckley, “The State of the Church,” 52). President Gordon B. Hinckley