Participation in Family History
Name all of the ways that you can do family history work.
Indexing, Get involved app, records stories, write in your journal, preserve photos, preserve old letters, tell family stories, go to the temple and do temple work, find names to take to temple
Temple Stats:
How many dedicated temples?
Temples under construction?
Temples announced?
201, 51, 115
For if it had not been for the faith and knowledge that was bestowed upon us in that temple by the influence and help of the Spirit of the Lord, our journey would have been like one taking a leap in the dark. To start out…in the winter as it were and in our state of poverty, it would seem like walking into the jaws of death.
President Hawkins, Bishop Walker, Patriarch Young, Sarah Rich early Nauvoo pioneer
Sarah Rich early Nauvoo pioneer
Which is easier to do, indexing or using get involved app?
Get involved app
This is another website that has other records and family trees that you can search in and is free to members of the church.
What is ancestry.com?
What temple is this?
What number temple was it?
Columbia River Temple
107
Brothers and sisters I have none but that man’s father is my father’s son. Who was he pointing at?
his son
What does this say
John & Jane
Who dedicated the Columbia River temple?
President Gordon B. Hinckley
Can you figure out the this family tree? There are 2 grandparents, who had 2 children, who both got married and had 2 more children each. Totaling 10 people in all (Alex, David, Jamie, Jessica, John, Justin, Lincoln, Martha, Mary and Tina.
One of Jamie’s ancestors was David.
John’s sister gave birth to Tina
Mary went bowling with her nephew last Saturday
Alex is cousins with one of the girls.
Justin married Mary.
Jessica is not an ancestor nor a cousin of Tina.
Lincoln’s brother showed Justin’s son his baseball cards.
Martha and David are the grandparents.
They gave birth to John and Mary.
John married Jessica who gave birth to Lincoln and Alex.
Mary married Justin and gave birth to Tina and Jamie.
Who can attach records and edit/expand family trees
You!
Anyone!
True or False?
People who have heard family stories over and over are better able to overcome challenges in their life and have higher self esteem.
Psychologist Robyn Fivush - "Family stories have a profound impact on our lives by shaping our sense of identity, building emotional connections within families, and providing a framework for understanding our own experiences, leading to higher self-esteem, lower anxiety, and a greater sense of meaning and purpose in life; essentially, the more we know about our family history, the better equipped we are to navigate our own lives."
Name one of the 3 temples in early church history that had the land/site dedicated but were never built?
Independence Temple
Far West Temple
Adam-ondi-Ahman Temple
The family tree consists of 2 grandparents, who had 3 children, each of whom get married and have 2 children.
Males: Cole Christian, Jason, Neil, and Steve
Females: Amanda, Ashley, Beth, Erin, Kaitlyn, Katherine, Makayla, Payton, and Tammy
One of Makayla’s cousins is Jason’s son.
One of Ashleys’s aunts is Tammy.
Tammy’s brother-in-law is Neil’s son.
Kaitlyn’s sister is Ashley’s cousin.
Ashley’s uncle Steve is Erin’s brother in law.
The three uncles are Payton’s dad, Christian, Katherine’s son.
The three aunts are Kaitlyn’s mom, Ashley’s Mom, and Christian’s sister-in-law
Jason’s Brother is Ashley’s Dad.
Amanda’s sister is Steve’s niece.
Beth is not Cole’s Aunt
The Grandparents are Katherine and Neil, who had three sons Christian, Jason, and Steve.
Christian married Erin, and had Ashley and Amanda.
Jason married Beth, and had Payton and Cole.
Steve married Tammy, and had Makayla and Kaitlyn.
What does this say?
Will C. Gatt
What is the world’s largest collection of genealogical records is housed in a secure vault located in the mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built it in 1965 to preserve and protect records of importance)
the Granite Mountain Records Vault
The majority of immigrants in the US are from Mexico but from which country are the second largest group of immigrants from?
Pew research, Sept 2024
Mexico is the top country of birth for U.S. immigrants. In 2022, roughly 10.6 million immigrants living in the U.S. were born there, making up 23% of all U.S. immigrants. The next largest origin groups were those from India (6%), China (5%), the Philippines (4%) and El Salvador (3%).
This temple is where Preisthood keys were restored by the prophet Elijah, Moses, and Elias.
We can be inspired all day long about temple and family history experiences others have had. But we must do something to actually experience the joy ourselves. I invite you to prayerfully consider what kind of sacrifice—preferably a sacrifice of time—you can make [to] do more temple and family history work.
President Nelson, President Grant, President McKay, President Kimball
President Nelson