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Mini Webinar: Editing and Correcting Place Names

Come join us for a 20-30 minute class on home to make sure your place names match each other and match the standardized list on new.familysearch.org. We'll also show you how to mark you unique place name as correct and choose a "standardized" name to use only when you do a search on the new FamilySearch website.

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Basic Research Practices in the Age of New FamilySearch

Guest Presenter: Janet Hovorka- Popular Genealogical Speaker

Grounding yourself in the foundations of good research can help you be a more effective genealogist whether in the library or on the internet. We’ll discuss primary and secondary sources, original and compiled records and how to track your research effectively. Now source centricity is more important than ever and so are your methods for citing sources. And now that you can work on New FamilySearch, do you need your own copy and how do you keep your own copy without a lot of work?

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How to Find U.S. Birth, Marriage, and Death Records (& Substitutes) on the Internet

Guest Presenter: Rae Lee Steinacker – Teaches Intermediate and Advanced Internet Research at the BYU Family History Center

Vital records – records of births, marriages, and deaths – provide important information and clues, not only about the primary person in the record, but often about other family members. The exciting news is that more and more U.S. vital records are being indexed and placed on the internet each day. This saves family historians loads of time and money, and it also gives us access to records of family members we might not have known existed. This webinar will show you how to find free U.S. vital records databases on the local, state, regional, and national level, as well as point out secondary sources that provide clues to vitals.

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How to Light a Fire Under Your Ward

Join us as we share some fun and fabulous tips for getting everyone excited about doing genealogy. Everyone has something they can do to contribute to their family history. Come learn how to motivate and inspire everyone, including the people who "just don't have the time".

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New Resources to Make It Easier

Guest Presenter: Paul Larsen- Author of Crash Course in Family History

There’s so much new stuff for family history, it’s easy to feel somewhat overwhelmed. Here’s a colorful tour of the new web sites and tools to guide beginners and empower experts using today’s technology. Learn about unique LDS resources on the Internet, the top 10 U.S. web sites, and the best of the Internet to search for your ancestors. Learn how to make it easier, save time, and have fun connecting to your ancestors. Come join us and see what you're missing.

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Syncing PAF files with FamilySearch™ using FamilyInsight

Learn to use FamilyInsight to synchronize PAF files with the new.familysearch.org website. We'll walk you through an actual synchronization so you can quickly start updating your records and helping others. After the presentation, there will be a short question and answer session. *Recommended for those with full access to the new.familysearch.org website.

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Ordinance Reservation 101

Learn to use FamilyInsight to reserve and print Family Ordinace Requests on new.familysearch.org website. We'll walk you through an actual reservation and introduce you to the new Ordinance Tracker tool. There will be a short question and answer session. *Recommended for those with full access to the new.familysearch.org website or with someone that can sign on to help them in Helper mode .

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Using Record Search 

Guest Presenter: Merlin Kitchen, Assistant Director
Utah South Area Family History Training Center in Orem, Utah

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has about 2.5 million rolls of microfilmed records of genealogical interest.  They have embarked on a project to digitize most if not all of the records in their posession.  In addition, they have offered services to archives and some commercial establishments for other similar resources. Most of the images are being placed on-line in a temporary pilot site called "Record Search" This webinar will teach you how to use the indexes on Record Search and how to utilize the images.

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Heritage Collector: Gather, Prepare, Print, and Share 

Guest Presenter: Marlo E. Schuldt of Lifestory Productions, Inc

See how easy it is to organize photos and family history files. Observe as we search and find any photo in seconds. Learn how to create and share slideshows with music and narration on self-running CD/DVDs. Discover how the Digital Family History Guidebook helps with family history projects. See a new way to create and e-mail PDFs. Observe as we create a beautiful storybook page and how you can save significant amounts in printing costs. Come and see why Heritage Collector Suite is the most complete and affordable family history program available./p>

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Collaboration Clean-Up/ Refining Your File

Come learn how to clean up your file and keep it clean during collaboration. We'll show you how to get rid of duplicate records, incorrect place names, and the other problems you never knew were there. Finally, we'll show you how to quickly trim and export a file based on an individual line or group so you can share with others.

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