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Family History Center
We are creating this page to provide Family History Center Staff with information and training ideas. If you have an idea or experience that would help others and would like to share it, we would love to include them on this page.
To submit ideas, send an email to FHC@ohanasoftware.com
- FamilyInsight Free for FHCs >>
- FHC 10 Week Course >>*New Nov 1, 2005*
- Data Entry Standards for PAF files>> **NEW Aug 25, 2005
- Cleaning Up Your PAF File >>*NEW Jan 11, 2006*
- Why Mormons Do Genealogy Presentation >>*NEW Aug 9, 2005*
- PowerPoint presentations for teaching PAF5 >>*NEW Jan 15, 2005*
- Preparing your Files for TempleReady >>*NEW Dec 2, 2004*
- FHC Training Lessons >>*New files added Sept 20, 2004*
- Using the MS300 Film/Fiche Scanner System >>*NEW Dec 1, 2004*
- Digital Imaging System Training >>*NEW Sept 19, 2004*
- Creating PowerPoint Presentations with Internet Links >>*Updated Feb 16, 2008*
- Genealogy for Geeks >>*NEW Oct 23, 2004*
- How to Use the FHC Booklet >>
- General Family History Check List >>
- Forms and Information >>
FamilyInsight for Family History Centers
Ohana Software gives a free FHC site license for FamilyInsight, Get My Ancestors and Ordinance Tracker to Family History Centers.
If you would like these free FHC licenses for your center,
Please visit www.ohanasoftware.com. Click on the Login/Register link under the My Accounts tab.
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Go to the bottom of the page under New Customers and enter your FHC email address. Click on Register.
This will open the Customer Registration page.
Enter the name of your Family History Center as the user name
Choose a web password
Enter your center's name as the first name with FHC as the Surname.
Enter the FHC Mailing address and other information. Click on Register.
After registering, send an email to sales@ohanasoftware.com including:
Family History Center Name
Unit number
Director's name and email and phone
Number of computers at your Family History Center:
We can then send your free licenses for the computers at your center.
10 Week Intern Program for Family History Workers
NEW Nov 1, 2005 Contributed by Alice Neff, director of the Midvale Union Fort Multi Stake FHC
This is a program used by the Fort Union Midvale FHC. It is an intern program where they have
10 weeks worth of lessons one day a week for 2 1/2 hours. They include scriptures, PAF, Internet,
research and commercial programs we use in the FHC in every lesson as we strive to teach a
comprehensive, well rounded approach to Family History. The students are called and set apart by the
bishops of the 7 stakes they serve to participate. At the end of the course some are invited to join
the FHC staff, some go back to serve as ward consultants, some go on to do their own work better.
Lesson 1 - Those Things that are Recorded on Earth are Recorded in Heaven
Lesson 2 - Getting Acquainted with and Learning to Love Your Ancestors
Lesson 3 - Blessing and Strenghtening Living Family
Lesson 4 - We must do all that we can do and have faith that God will do the rest
Lesson 5 - Saviors on Mount Zion
Lesson 6 - Personal Responsibility to be of Service
Lesson 7 - The LDS Church's Commitment to Family History and Temple Work
Lesson 8 - Personal Responsibility to be of Service II
Lesson 9 (Word) - The Importance of Accuracy and Following the Rules
Lesson 10 - When Thou art Converted
Family History Intern Curriculum (Word)
Family History Intern Themes (Word)
Data Entry Standards for PAF Files
With the use of computers for Family History, it is necessary to have some standardization of entry methods. Without standardization, it is difficult for files to accurately be displayed in or interface with the online IGI and other databases. Correction of incorrectly entered places in temple submissions causes needless extra work for those maintaining the online IGI, etc. and to manually make corrections so that information will display correctly. B. Nielson of Upland, California has graciously shared his standards for data entry as a guide for correct entry of information. This file is in WORD format.
Data Entry Standards for PAF Files by B. Nielsen
Why Mormons Do Genealogy presentation
*NEW Aug 9, 2005*
David Wardell of the McLean Virginia FHC has created this presentation. David writes: "Several years ago our Stake had a short film/video professionally produced explaining why members of the Church operate FHCs and have an interest in genealogy. It's not without faults but nevertheless well-done, religiously-focused, and answers the question succinctly. It differs from materials the Church has produced since for FHCs in that it is live action and targets the religious questions in a different way. It dates well, although if you look closely you'll start to wonder where they found the antique computers (they're probably still running in a FHC somewhere). Recently I transferred the original to a video file that plays nicely over the average LAN on average PCs."
(approximately 94mb and 11m27s in length). Why Mormons Do Genealogy
Cleaning Up Your PAF File
*NEW Jan 11, 2006*
Katie Lamm of the Eagle, Idaho Family History Center has created a Powerpoint presentation that follows the text of the St. George Regional FHC class "Cleaning Up Your PAF File" by Donald R. Snow.
Cleaning Up Your PAF File PowerpointPowerPoint Presentations for teaching PAF5
*NEW Jan 15, 2005*
Kathleen Kimble of the West Chester, PA Ward FHC and the Valley Forge, PA FHC has created these PowerPoint presentations for teaching staff, ward members and others how to use Personal Ancestral File 5. She is generously sharing them for others to use. Kathleen says, " Please let everyone know that they are welcome to make corrections or suggestions to make it better and that anyone is allowed to copy it and give it to someone else. We're all in this together for our ancestors."
Choose the lessons that fit your needs.
To save the PowerPoint presentation on your computer, right click on a presentation and choose "Save Target As".
To download Microsoft PowerPoint viewer click here
Preparing your Files for TempleReady
*NEW December 2, 2004*
Joan Glasgow and the Green Valley FHC in St. George, Utah have prepared these handouts in Word format to help patrons know how to prepare their databases for use with TempleReady and to submit names to the temple. These are great guidelines and hopefully will help to reduce duplication of temple work.
To Our Patrons - (WORD)
To Our Patrons - (PDF)
Guidelines For Updating Your
Family History Database and Doing TempleReady (WORD)
Guidelines For Updating Your
Family History Database and Doing TempleReady (PDF)
Liz Snow has prepared training lessons in PDF format useful for training Family History Center Staff
*NEW September 20, 2004*
Finding Individuals in Your PAF File That Are Qualified for Temple Work
How to Use the Pedigree Resource File
How to Search the Internet IGI
How to Register on the FamilySearch Website
Using Update My Records in TempleReady
*NEW Jan 23, 2004*
Installing the PAF5 Program onto the Computer
Converting a PAF 4 file to PAF 5
Importing and Exporting a GEDCOM
Submitting to the Pedigree Resource File
How to get a Split Screen on the Computer
Training Exercise for the Mormon Immigration Index
*NEW Dec 1, 2004*
We would like to thank Jinx Hartung for creating these training files for using the
MS300 Film/Fiche Scanner. They are in PDF format. Each section needs to be downloaded separately.
Using the MS300 Film/Fiche Scanner
FHC Digital Imaging Software for the MS300
*NEW Sept 19, 2004*
This PowerPoint Presentation was prepared by Joyce Conklin for the San Francisco California Stake Family History Center.
She has generously made it available for all to use for training purposes.
To save the PowerPoint presentations on your computer, right click on a presentation and choose "Save Target As".
To download Microsoft PowerPoint viewer click here
*NEW Nov 27, 2004*
Thanks to Joyce Conklin for these instruction on including active
Internet links in PowerPoint presentations.
PowerPoint Presentations with Internet Links
You will need Adobe Reader to read the above file.
Sample PowerPoint Presentation-You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs*Updated Feb 16, 2008
*NEW Oct 23, 2004*
This Presentation was prepared by Dana Repouille for a Family History Fair given by the Council Bluffs Iowa Stake FHC.
It is fun and full of wonderful links and ideas for using computers and the Internet for doing your Family History.
He has prepared it in both PowerPoint and Open Office.
Genealogy for Geeks--Open Office
Genealogy for Geeks--PowerPoint
To save the PowerPoint presentation on your computer, right click on a presentation and choose "Save Target As".
To download Microsoft PowerPoint viewer click here
*NEW Oct 19, 2004*
This is a booklet prepared by Regine Brindle for the Peru Indiana FHC. It is specific to the Peru FHC,
but can be modified to fit the needs of each FHC. Regine is sharing this booklet so that other FHCs may
use it for ideas to create a booklet to fit their FHC. This file is a Word document.
*NEW May 12, 2004*
This file is in PDF format and was graciously shared with us by Wayne Ware. It is a list of steps to
guide someone from beginning their Family History Research to submitting names to the Temple.
General Family History Check List
*NEW Apr 14, 2004*
These files are in WORD format and were prepared and graciously shared with us by David and Pat Durda
PAF 5: Splitting a Large PAF File using GEDGOMs
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Family History Center Staff Training by Liz Snow
Using the MS300 Film/Fiche Scanner System
Digital Imaging System Training
Creating PowerPoint Presentations with Internet Links
Genealogy for Geeks
How to Use the FHC Booklet
General Family History Check List
Forms and Information shared by the El Paso TX Mt Franklin FHC