Find Your Family Pioneers

Find Your Family Pioneers

July 24th is “Pioneer Day”—a day when we celebrate the courage of our ancestors. This week, why not explore where your family came from? Who in your family was the first to accept the gospel? The FamilySearch website can help you answer that very question with a...
How to Schedule Appointments at Latter-Day Saint Temples

How to Schedule Appointments at Latter-Day Saint Temples

Half of the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have now reopened for proxy ordinance work. This article explains how to schedule appointments to do proxy work. How to Schedule Temple Appointments for Proxy Work In the main navigation on...
The World’s Largest Shared Family Tree

The World’s Largest Shared Family Tree

The free FamilySearch website is home to the world’s largest online family tree. Known as the FamilySearch Family Tree, this shared family tree is home to information about more than 1.2 billion ancestors, which has been contributed by millions of descendants. What’s...
Cemetery Projects for Youth Groups & Families

Cemetery Projects for Youth Groups & Families

Here’s a COVID-friendly idea for a youth group or your family: take photos of gravestones. Using the BillionGraves app, each gravestone is automatically marked with a GPS location. The data is then transcribed by volunteers, plotted on cemetery maps, and made...
Volunteer Opportunity: Improve the Accuracy of Family Tree

Volunteer Opportunity: Improve the Accuracy of Family Tree

In the past, FamilySearch used automation to help improve place-names that are missing standards—but automation can do only so much. Volunteers are needed to help improve place-names by matching them with a standard place that can be recognized by a map. This simple...
Family History Library Launches New Webpage

Family History Library Launches New Webpage

The main Family History Library in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah has published a new Family History Library webpage is part of FamilySearch.org. The page provides new online patron experiences and up-to-date information about the library’s services and activities. On...
Help Visitors Find Your Local Church

Help Visitors Find Your Local Church

When people are looking for somewhere new to attend church, they often search online. Help visitors discover the Church of Jesus Christ by leaving a review about your experience on Google Maps, Yelp, or any service you use regularly. New visitors are searching for...
Most-Read Articles on LDS365 During 2020

Most-Read Articles on LDS365 During 2020

The following are the most-read articles on LDS365.com during the year 2020: Everything You Need to Know about the New Children and Youth Program New Primary Song: “I Will Walk with Jesus” Audio and Sheet Music Maps of Mission Boundaries Online LDS Store for Official...
Missionaries Taking Photos of Gravestones

Missionaries Taking Photos of Gravestones

From the BillionGraves blog: Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent most of their time sharing messages of faith with community members and helping those in need of service. They still do, but the...
Discourses of Eliza R. Snow Published

Discourses of Eliza R. Snow Published

Eliza R. Snow, the second General President of the Relief Society, was a prolific writer and speaker. Her nearly 1,200 discourses are being collected and published on the Eliza R. Snow website. The site also contains images of Eliza, the presidencies who served with...
Volunteer to Help Improve Place-Names on FamilySearch

Volunteer to Help Improve Place-Names on FamilySearch

Here’s a great volunteer opportunity to help improve the place names that appear on FamilySearch. FamilySearch offers a simple tool online or on mobile phones where you can help standardize and correct names of places by matching them with a standard place that...
Discover Fun Facts about Yourself

Discover Fun Facts about Yourself

Most of us know what it’s like to scramble for something interesting to say when someone asks the classic question, “Tell me something about yourself.” It’s similar to the feeling when you’re asked to share a fun fact about yourself on the first day of school or at a...
2020 is Bicentennial of the First Vision

2020 is Bicentennial of the First Vision

The year 2020 will be one of the most exciting in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It marks 200 years since the First Vision. Last month, President Russell M. Nelson invited us to prepare for the April conference that will commemorate...

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