Hurricane Utah FamilySearch Center: Difference between revisions

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Monday    January 17^th                                     Martin Luther King Jr. Day

from beginner to advanced.  You will find videos, classes, etc.  Click around and enjoy all the fun.                 

*'''For class descriptions, see the listing after all the Classes.'''

Individual Classes by Appointment Only:

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'''<u>CLASS DETAILS:</u>'''

We will be showing a webinar to learn how to use the site to our advantage. They have many early American records that are not available anywhere else.

This is one of the perks that FamilySearch is giving to us for doing our work. Come and learn how to use this new site. I am very excited to learn to find more documents about my early American ancestors.

Getting Started with Ancestry.com

You must have a personal tree in both Ancestry and FamilySearch to allow for the exchange of data, sources and media between these two websites.

Using the Home Page in Ancestry to find photos, hints and more

Have you signed up for AncestryDNA, and sent in your sample? And you got back your results and wonder what to do now? Come to this class and you will find out! You may have answers to brick walls in your genealogy! Or if you or an ancestor was adopted, you will find some real answers to that question of “Who were the biological parents?”.   We are here to help you through this process.  

<u>'''Apps Gallery'''</u>

There are over 100 apps to be found in the APP gallery.  In this class we learn how to get into the APP gallery and how to move around in it to find the app you are looking for.  We will demonstrate the use of several of the apps.  You will be impressed.

This class is not teaching about genealogy and how it is done, but is designed to help those who are just learning about computers and how they work.

You will learn basic computer language for use of the computer.  There is class time and practice time.

We look at word processors and their function.  We talk about the kinds of word processors there are and their differences.  We learn how to create documents and folders and how to join them.  

We take an in-depth look at the things you can do with the word processor to make the documents you produce come to life.   

Learn how to find your ancestors and their records in Denmark.

I took the test....now what?  Learn how to use the information you received from the test results. What does it all mean?

The basis of research after 1837 includes extensive use of the 1841 – 1911 census records, civil registration records and index of births, marriages, and deaths from 1837 forward (years of availability vary for each group of records), and use of the newly available GRO (General Register’s Office) records. In addition, the church records of the Church of England including parish maps and non-conformist denominations are a valuable source of information for your English and Welsh families. the General Probate Registry beginning in 1859 is another valuable resource. Come and learn how to find and use these great resources, many of which are now available at no charge by using online records. Search strategies will be also presented.

Premium websites are available in the Family History Center-Portals for research.  These can only be accessed from the Family History Center Computers.  If you wanted to access them from your home computer, the premium websites would require a paid subscription.   

<u>Family History Guide, The</u>  (Part 1 and 2)

Learn to Navigate in Family Tree; View 4 different charts Landscape, Portrait, Fan and Descendancy. How to [expand or contract] family lines. Find [Get Help] and the [Learning Center]; understand Privacy Rules. Learn the difference between [Summary Card] and [Person or Detail Page]. Produce a [4-generation Pedigree Chart]; and a [Family Group Sheet]. View children and other spouses, if any. Update vital information and [standardize] information for ancestors in your tree for at least 4 generations.

Adding Record Hints, and Sources using the Family Search Source Linker, as well as sources from other web sites using Record Seek. Adding Record Hints and other Sources to our ancestors helps to make them become real people and it helps to tell their stories.  It is one thing to know their birth and death dates, however, it is even more important to know of the events that happened in their lives between their birth and death.  We can learn more about ourselves when we learn more about our ancestors.  

How to attach Memories:  photos, documents, stories and audio recordings to Family Search.   

Learn the essential research skills to find your ancestors by:

These computer classes are to be studied and learned together.  Each class builds on the next and prepares you for getting our records as correct as possible.

Family Search has endorsed the value of using Google to search for information on your ancestors.  Google is now in the Search Records list on each individual's detail page along with Ancestry and My Heritage.  This class will teach you the difference between using Google on the detail page and doing a general search on Google.com.  You will learn tips on how to phrase your search terms.  Also presented are some of the many Google tools that can help you with many family history research projects.   

This one on one instruction is for those who have hit a "Brick Wall", and can't seem to go any further back on their line.  This instructor has many tools and many years of experience in breaking through these walls.  Call or email him with your question/s.  Include the paper work he might need.   

Do you find duplicates in your life?  Are there wives, children or duplicate parents you don't recognize?  Being able to find and merge duplicate records will help solve some problems in your family tree.

Military records are found in many places on the internet from 1785 to the Vietnam war.  You will learn how to find specific records on different websites, and how to google unusual records.  Pension files and how to order them, are so important and you can find much information on other members of the serviceman's family.  Death records can be found as well as marriage dates and places.  Some explain what they did in the service, and where they served.

This will be an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop to get you started with ideas about collecting and organizing family memories, and an introduction to using Microsoft Word.  You don’t need to know how to type.  You will be presented with some computer basics, including how to use a mouse, even if your hand shakes.  You will learn how to enter stories in the form of text through typing and dictation.  We will introduce you to some basic word processing functions including how to change things (editing) if you want to move text around, saving your work and printing your story.  We will also talk about a “free” word processing tool: Libre Office Writer.  Future classes will build upon the knowledge presented here to teach you how to build a family history book.

This will once again be an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop to explore some of the intermediate level tools of Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer.  This is a continuation of the first Preserving Family Memories using Microsoft Word class.  We will explore tabs, paragraphs, line spacing, headers, footers and page numbering, tables, columns and the find and replace function.  Future classes will build upon the knowledge presented here to teach you how to use Word to do scrapbooking.

This will be a continuation of an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop where we explore some of the advanced tools of Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer.  We will explore text formatting, font size, fonts and colors, the Snipping tool, inserting pictures and shapes, cover pages and tables of contents, and layering.  A future class will build upon the knowledge presented here to enhance your knowledge of how to use Word to do scrapbooking.  (Suggest first taking <u>Parts 1 and 2)</u>

We will finish up our series of interactive, participatory demonstrations and workshops as we explore additional advanced tools found in Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer.  We will look at shading, backgrounds, objects and Texts, Text Effects including shadows and reflections, the drawing tool, working with watermarks and borders, comments, balloons and text boxes, and some multi-level, indented lists, tracking changes and how to view two different parts of a given document at the same time.  We will see how sample digital scrapbook pages are built.

This class is designed to help you discover the many ways that newspapers can aid in your research.  Newspapers can provide clues and information that cannot be found anywhere else!  Newspapers contain birth, marriage, death notices, obituaries, photographs, passenger lists, military news, biographical sketches, citizenship notices, land transactions, and a host of other information.  Access to historical newspapers has never been better.  Come and see what you have been missing!

Two Norwegian Research classes are offered:  Part 1 and Part 2.  It is strongly recommended that both classes are attended in order.  The material is not duplicated.  There will be both instruction and “hands on computer” time plus handouts and worksheets.  The instructor will be Barbara Waagen for both classes.

'''Part 1:'''  Topics covered include:  A brief history of Norway, geography and land divisions, helps to “cross the pond” using USA immigration records and Norway emigration records.  Also discussed will be handwriting helps for confidence in reading the original records, and naming customs. Learn how to use the Wiki in FamilySearch as a resource. Learn how to access Norwegian Church records for FREE.

'''Part 2:'''  This section is designed to utilize the information from Part 1 in compiling an actual family.  Topics covered in Part 2 include: A research process guide, a key word list, calculating actual dates from feast dates, hints for using farm histories and census records, and using Norwegian parish records including birth/christening, marriage, license and banns, and death/burials.  Students will be challenged to complete a prepared research project in the actual parish records using a real family for experience to find all children in the family and parents.

This class will use the free picture-editing program, GIMP, for the class.  While it is an extensive photo program, we will be focusing on the 7 tools in that program that allows a person to take out blemishes in the photo.  We will learn how to repair rips and tears, or folds in the picture, etc.  This class is divided into 3 one-hour sections:  1) Repairing old photos;  2) Restoring faded photos;   

Please bring a scanned, digital photo, on your flash drive, you would like to repair.

The Puzzilla name refers to finding and assembling pieces of a puzzle to complete the whole picture, the essence of the genealogical research process.  Puzzilla will retrieve the latest information available from Family Tree.

The Puzzilla Descendants Viewer premium services tabs help researchers see descendants in FamilyTree and reveals where more research is needed to continue the completion of your family tree.

Unlike the descendant view in Family Tree where you are only able to view a few relatives at a time, the circular wheel view in Puzzilla allows you to be able to view all descendant lines and hundreds of your ancestors on a single page, and pinpoints the family lines that are broken.  Puzzilla quickly shows where you have children without descendants--and that with additional research you can add to these lines.   

Learning how to do research is not a difficult task these days. Familytree has many hints already to attach to your ancestor. Make sure it is the correct record for your family.

Going beyond what family search gives you, you will learn what information to look for on a record, especially those easier ones like census records. Learn to glean the most you can from looking at the original record, not just an indexed record. Did you know they don’t index everything that might be important to you? We have staff on hand to help you practice what you learn today.

No matter what personal genealogy program you decide to use, the most important thing is that you have one.  You do not need to be a professional researcher as even those who have the most casual approach to dipping your toes into the world of genealogical research can greatly benefit from having a way to store and/or share your family stories and data.  RootsMagic is a very versatile and easy to use program even for those who know only the basics of computer use.  In the Basic RootsMagic Class, I will explain how to obtain RootsMagic, set up the program on your computer and/or flash drive and tap into and link the data and sources available to anyone interested in using Family Search/Family Tree with assistance for obtaining access to Family Search if needed.  But unlike Family Search, RootsMagic is your own private data base allowing you to have control over what information you choose to included and what part of that information you may want to share.  We will go over the basic features of the program including:  logging in, starting and naming files, finding and adding people, data entry and editing, navigating tabs and views, and of course, how to back up and share your files.  This class is open to anyone interested in researching and saving Family History.

There are tweeks and tricks in advanced RootsMagic that will help you organize a family reunion, print out data sheets to find what might be missing in a person’s life information, sheets to find who was living in a particular area and time, color code direct ancestors, add photos and documents, merge options, gazetteer, internet tools for sharing and searching and publishing.  You can also print out Reports:  narrative, custom, individual summary, Family Group Sheets, Pedigree charts and others.  We will go over some of these and introduce you to others and as always there are no dumb questions.  RootsMagic is a wonderful programs that does more than just store data.  It also lets you do things with that information in many different ways that are helpful to really personalize “your” files.

Before you upload your pictures or documents to your flash drive, or to Family Search, they must be digitized.  This class will teach you how to use the scanners at the Center to digitize your material, including slides, pictures and negatives.  You will also learn how to scan a book, or multi-page documents.

Two Swedish Research classes are offered-Part 1 and Part 2.  It is strongly recommended that both classes are attended in order.  The material is not duplicated.  There will be both instruction and computer “hands on” time plus handouts and worksheets.

The topics covered include: Using the Wiki in FamilySearch, Maps are a must, using birth, christening, banns, marriage, death and burial records and why you need them, the importance of Clerical Surveys plus hints for using them, and how to convert Feast Dates to Calendar Dates. Finally, you will learn the research process using all of these free records to compile a real family.

Since FamilySearch has a tree, we learn '''why''' we need to keep a database. There are many different types of Genealogical databases.  A Database can keep the information you want on a living relative (your children.) A Database can keep photo memories of living and dead. A Database cannot be changed by anyone but you. A Database is private, only changed by you, and is kept safe from others. It is also a place to keep notes that you don’t want anyone else to see. Learn how to tag to keep private information private. There are free and cost wise databases that interface with Family Tree to easily move information back and forth.  Learn when to Backup/Restore, Import/Export, and what “save as” is for. Learn when to use a flash drive and well as learn more terminology.

Have you heard of Wikipedia?  Family Search has created a resource guide to help you find what information is available in the place you are looking for your ancestor called simply the WIKI.

I can look for the state or country or county my ancestor lived in and see what is recommended for finding a record about my ancestor. Can it really be this simple? They have had these as printed guides for many years, but now because the collections online change so quickly they have created a site where you can go to see the latest and greatest information about, well almost anything genealogy oriented. We have 21 computers available for you to start learning what is available for you to find that hidden record about your ancestor. Come join in our workshop after the class.

Suggestions on what to include in your life history and how to get started.  52 Questions to consider.