Temple and Family History

  Temple and Family History Lessons Lesson 2 Starting Family Search – New Account   This lesson helps a new (Family Search) user create and open their own user account.  There are three possible options; the new user may be: 1.        -   An adult member of the Church 2.        -   A member of the church under 13 years old (Age 8 through 12) 3.        -   A non-member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Although it is possible for a new Family Search user to log into someone else’s account, usually another family member or close relative, it is best for each user to have their own account.  One of the frequently-used keys in Family Search is the “See My Relationship” key, which details the ancestral relationship between the person being reviewed in Family Search to the person whose account is being used.  If you are not using your own account this information will be in error and of less use to you.  In addition, Family Search sends out by way of E-mail,

  Temple and Family History Lessons Lesson 1 Utterly Wasted   These Temple and Family History Lessons are prepared as a resource for those wishing to start or continue working in family history using the Church’s Internet Family-History tool, “Family Search”. Each lesson is short, fewer than 6 pages long, and in the sequence, the lessons build on each other, so the later lessons will be more meaningful after the previous lessons have been completed.   This first lesson, providing background and motivational thoughts, serves as an introduction to the work and to the subsequent lessons.   The subsequent lessons are designed to be completed the first time through while seated at a computer with Internet access, although it is also intended that they should be reviewed as often as might be helpful, since Family History efforts generally progress in intermittent efforts, often interrupted by lengthy delays requiring refreshing of earlier concepts. Introduction. What began in

  Temple and Family History Lessons Table of Contents Lesson 1:           Utterly Wasted!  Why are we doing this? Lesson 2:           Starting Family Search – New Account           • Adults           • Youth           • Non-members Lesson 3:      The Family Tree           • One-World Tree           • Various views           • Descendancy  Lesson 4:           The Person Page           • Vital Statistics           • Temple Ordinances  Lesson 5:           Adding Names           • Children           • Parents Lesson 6:           Memories           • Photos           •   Documents           • Stories Lesson 7:           Sources           • Discussion of source hierarchy           • Family Search sources           • Non-Family Search sources Lesson 8:           Searching Family Search           • Various Possible Searches Non-indexed records           • New Tab Lesson 9:           Submitting Names for Ordinances           • A Few Guidelines