Fresno California FamilySearch Center/Consultants

Fresno California Family History Center Menu Location 5685 N Cedar Avenue Fresno, CA 93710 (559) 268-0888 Hours of Operation Monday: 10:00am – 2:00pm Tuesday: 10:00am – 2:00pm and 7:00pm – 9:00pm Wednesday: 7:00pm – 9:00pm Thursday: 10:00am – 2:00pm Saturday: 10:00am – 2:00pm Table of Contents Home Page Family History Center Resources RootsTech Archives BYU Relative Finder Research Resources FamilySearch Links Local Resources Useful Links Staff & Consultant Resources

Staff & Consultant Resources

On Line Temple and Family History Consultant Training

• Temple and Family History Consultant Page
  • Understanding Your Calling
  • Principles for Helping Others
  • Family History Training Presentations
  • Support and Accountability for My Calling
  • Learn to Use FamilySearch.org
  • Resources for Finding Ancestors
  • Technical Training
• Begin at the Beginning 2017: Helping Others Love Family History - video from RootsTech 2017
• Tips for Helping Members
• Six Steps to Find, Take and Teach- handout from Riverton Family History Center
• Consultant Webinar Series - Need some help getting your members engaged in Family History? This webinar series explores new tools and techniques for motivating members with Family History and temple work.
• To Turn The Hearts manual - Leader’s Guide to Temple and Family History Work

FamilySearch & Family Tree Help

• How to use FamilySearch.org - some commonly asked questions about using FamilySearch Family Tree
• Using Record Seek - handout from Riverton Family History Center
  • Helping Others to Love Family History - Lesson Plan
• BYU Family History Library's Temple and Family History Consultant Training Page - videos and handouts
• Top 10 Things - the top 10 things that every consultant needs to know and be able to teach Family History and to be effective Temple and Family History Consultants.
• Discovering My Eternal Family: Find, Take, Teach - Choose a strategy based on the size of your family tree to find names.
• Helping Others to Love Family History - A resource to prepare a personalized lesson plan that will help a family or individual have a Find, Take, Teach experience.
• FamilySearch Memories: Audio Files - New Audio File Feature Helps You Teach Others About Their Ancestors

Research Help

• Beginning US Research- handout from Riverton Family History Center
• US Census Records- handout from Riverton Family History Center
• Record Selection Table- handout from Riverton Family History Center

• BYU Family History Library You Tube Channel

• FamilySearch You Tube Channel

Also check out our Research Help page.

How-to Resources for Temple and Family History Consultants

The usage of "Mormon" and "LDS" on this page is approved according to current policy.

• How to Use the Cannon 300 Microfilm Scanner (PDF)
• How to Retrieve LDS User Names and Reset Passwords (PDF)
• How to Contact FamilySearch Technical Support (PDF)

A family history conference hosted by FamilySearch. For online genealogical classes and videos see RootsTech.org.