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Gary L. Foster
Retired, genealogist, grandfather,
father, husband & a happy man.
Each of these news releases
refer to the up coming new
FamilySearch.9 release.
Click here for a pre-view PowerPoint Presentation on the
Future of Family History
Have patience as this
PowerPoint presentation has lots of pictures to load but
it is well worth the wait.
You can also
CLICK HERE to view, download & print this
presentation (.pdf format) in your own computer.
This is a 7 meg file so find
something to do while it is coming into your computer.
Janet and I are selling our big home that we
raised our family in located in Tempe, Arizona and
looking to downsize to a smaller home in Gilbert or
Queen Creek, Arizona later this year.
Click to see our
home for sale.
Janet and I purchased a 2 bedroom condo at the
Kimball in Salt Lake City, Utah where we go several
times a year to do genealogy research on our family
lines. We rent it out to those who want to be in
walking distance to the Family History Library, Temple
Square, the new Church History Library and the LDS
Conference Center.
Click to see our condo for
rent.
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Recommended
Websites and Genealogy Blogs to assist in learning:
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FamilySearch Community Forum - Help for
Beginners with New FamilySearch Questions
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FamilyInsight at Yahoo Groups is a great place to
go for information after you sign up to learn tons
of information about PAF, FamilyInsight and any new
version currently being developed.
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Family History Consultants & Directors an additional
Yahoo Group is active and sharing questions and
answers pertaining to the new FamilySearch program
for those Temple districts currently on-line.
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Register for Training as a Consultant or
Priesthood Leader Now - take the lessons and begin
cleaning up your own families records. From
this experience you will be able to assist others.
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Utah South Area Family History Training Center -
Take the New FamilySearch Classes in Provo, Utah
Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. See
website for details.
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Mesa Regional Family History Center - See
website for training schedule for Ward Family
History Consultants and Priesthood Leaders in
English and Spanish.
Here is a PowerPoint
presentation of 69 slides on Getting Ready for Family
Search TempleReady & Cleaning up your Records... Click
to download the images (takes several minutes) then
click on the bottom right Slide "Show icon" and get
started so you will be ready.
Click here
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Family History Resources by Miles Meyer,
Jacksonville, Florida East Stake - He has developed
this website to provide information on these
resources and to help family history consultants
develop training materials for their staff and ward
members. All of the files on this site are in Adobe
pdf format. If you would like the original documents
so you can edit them, let him know.
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FamilySearch
Labs -
is testing a variety
of products such as Records Search, Family Tree,
Standard Finder and Research Wiki. Sign up as
a beta tester and help them develop even better
products for future use.
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FamilySearch Wiki
- this tool assists you in finding your ancestors.
It offers information on how to find, use, and
analyze records of genealogical value for beginners,
intermediate and expert researchers.
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FamilySearch Indexing - The Church plans to
place all of the records from Granite Mountain on
the web in a searchable database. You can volunteer
on this site to do indexing work. They are currently
looking for 10,000 English -Spanish speaking
volunteers to work on the Mexican census records.
Hopefully, within 7 years all microfilm records that
can be released will be digitized & indexed and on
the Internet website for use by everyone worldwide.
How is that for a miraculous project? If you
believe in miracles, why don't you become part of
one?
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Let me know by e-mail of additional websites and
Blogs that offer assistance.
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