Share Your Life Story With Lifey.org
A Utah man has created a simple way to share your life story in video. Lifey helps you organize your thoughts and then record them on video. It’s an easy, free, browsable, and embeddable way to create a video autobiography. Browse by topic. Lifey videos are...
How to Opt Out of FamilyTreeNow
FamilyTreeNow.com bills itself as a free family tree and genealogy research site, but beware. Although you can create and save family tree charts, there are no biographies or family history stories. The site really is not much more than a people finder. It searches...
Changes to Family History Organization and Callings
Today, the Church announced that all family history callings at the area, stake, or ward level will now be called temple and family history consultants. The primary responsibility of all temple and family history consultants is to give personalized help to leaders and...
Can’t Attend RootsTech in Person? Participate Online!
If you can’t attend RootsTech in person, don’t worry, some of the best of RootsTech learning sessions, keynote addresses, and Innovator Showdown will be streamed live on RootsTech.org today, Friday, and Saturday. For a complete schedule of sessions that will be...
Experience RootsTech 2017
Tomorrow is the beginning of RootsTech 2017. It’s not too late to register. Learn more about Family Discovery Day on Saturday, February 11, 2017. RootsTech will be posting on Facebook and live tweeting. You can even join the live stream to participate from home!...
2017 Goals for Indexing
Have you set a personal goal for indexing names from FamilySearch? A few minutes a day can uncover names of many people waiting to receive temple ordinances. FamilySearch indexing lets you type names from old records into a database that people worldwide can use to...
Write Your Life Story in 2017: FamilySearch #52Stories Project Will Make Your Task Easier
Maybe your New Year’s resolution is to write your personal history to share with your family and leave for future generations. The task, however, can seem daunting. Where do you start? FamilySearch can help with its #52Stories project. Each week in 2017, FamilySearch,...
Family History Coloring Book
The Church has published a children’s coloring book about family history. It has 11 fun coloring and activity pages designed to introduce Primary-age children to the doctrine and blessings that come from family history. Activities include dot-to-dot, mazes, and...Video: What Is the Purpose of Family?
This short animated video “What Is the Purpose of Family?” explains that the family is the divine building block of society. This video is one of a series of videos providing basic, yet engaging answers to common doctrinal questions. Each of the videos is...
Worldwide Indexing Event 2016 #TheWorldsRecords
During 72 hours from July 15-17, help index the world’s historical records, making them freely searchable on the Internet, helping families worldwide find their ancestors. Help FamilySearch reach the goal of 72,000 volunteers to help make records accessible for...
Sharing Family Stories: Simple Activities for Children
The recent Church News article “Kids and the ties that bind” describes simple activities you can do with your children to help them learn about their family history. Here are a few easy ways that parents can integrate stories from their family history into...
How to Engage Youth in family History
Presenters at the recent RootsTech conference talked about various tools youth can use to participate in family history. Some of those ideas were summarized in the article “RootsTech 2016: Engaging youth and teens in family history.” Tool #1: Paper and Pen...
New Church History Database Lists Early LDS Missionaries,1830 to 1930
A new database titled “Early Mormon Missionaries” features information about all known full-time proselytizing Mormon missionaries who served between 1830 and 1930. In addition to basic information such as names, dates of service, and mission locations, it includes...
Print LDS Temple Ordinance Cards at Home
Members can now print their own family ordinance cards at home rather than printing them at the temple. This option is now available in the United States and will be available worldwide in the next few months. Taking names to the temple for ordinance work just got a...Follow on social media