New Youth and Family History Website

During the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told of a new website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: LDS.org/FamilyHistoryYouth

This new site is dedicated to Youth and Family History. In his talk, Elder Bednar addressed the youth of the Church and said:

"I invite the young people of the Church to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. I encourage you to study, to search out your ancestors, and to prepare yourselves to perform proxy baptisms in the house of the Lord for your kindred dead (see D&C 124:28-36). And I urge you to help other people identify their family histories."¹

The Youth and Family History website (currently available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese) has a three minute introductory video called, "The Time is Now," in which Elder Bednar and several youth of the Church speak about the work of family history.

This new website will help youth:

• Discover how to do family history
• How to serve others, and
• Watch the experiences of other youth who've been doing temple and family history work

On the Discover page there are five steps with videos to help the youth get started with their family history. The five steps are:

1. Discover My Family Tree
2. Discover a Family Record
3. Return and Verify
4. Prepare a Name for the Temple
5. Go to the Temple ... Again and Again

The Serve page currently has videos to:

• Help the Families You Home Teach
• Help Others Come Back to Church
• Help New Members Take a Name to the Temple
• Help Others Add Photos and Documents to Their Family Tree
• Help Others Find Records by Indexing

The Experiences page has several videos of youth who share their experiences with temple and family history work.

What a wonderful resource this new website is to help our youth learn how to do family history work and then help others to learn how to do it too. If you are new to temple and family history work this website can help you too.

BOISE AREA FALL FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE

Nampa North Stake Center 6111 Birch Lane Saturday, October 15, 2011 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Online registration is available for the Boise Area Fall Family History
Conference.

BYU-Idaho is pleased to offer online registration. Please go to: www.byui.edu/cc/familyhistory/registration.htm.

For information on the conference and for handouts, please go to: www.byui.edu/cc/familyhistory/default.htm.

Welcome and Devotional  Bruce Allcott
Bruce Allcott served a mission as a young man in the Netherlands. Upon returning he graduated from Ricks College. He married Maureen Olsen from Iona, Idaho, in 1974. They are the parents of 6 children and 11 grandchildren. Bruce had a 29 year career in the Fire Service in Idaho. He spent 23 of those years as fire chief in three depart-ments, retiring in 2007 in order to serve with his wife as a missionary couple. They were called to serve in the Novosibirsk Russia Mission in 2007. While serving in that mission in Irkutsk as counselor to the Mission President, they were called to serve as Mission President in the Yekaterinburg
Russia Mission. They returned home to study Russian and began serving in the Yekaterinburg Mission on July 1, 2009. They currently serve as temple ordinance workers in the Twin Falls Temple and other ward callings.

For answers to questions, please phone: (208) 496-1221.

Monthly 'open' training seminars

When: Fist Tuesday each month
Where:Family History Center
Time: 7 - 8pm

If you have a laptop, source materials, or just a bunch of stuff in a box you are encouraged to bring them with you.

Feb 7 Legacy Family Trees and New Family Search
Mar 6 Legacy Family Trees hidden gems
Apr 3 Indexing the 1940 US Census

For more information please contact Ron Grames, FHC Director at 850-0631 or EMAIL

Upcoming Conferences:

• BYU Family History and Genealogy Conference - July 26-29 2011. The theme is "Strengthening Ties that Bind Families Together Forever". For details, go to http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/
• Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) Family History Conference - Aug 19-20, at the Larry H. Miller Campus of Salt Lake Community College at 9750 S 300 W in Sandy. Click for More Information and/or Schedule
• Ogden Utah FHC Conference - Sep 17, 2011 at the Shepherd Union Building at Weber State University.
• Logan Utah FHC Conference - Oct 15, 2011, 9 am to 5:30 pm at Bridgerland applied Technology College, 600 W 1400 N., Logan. The theme will be "With Help I can Find Them" and Ron Tanner, Product Manager for new.FamilySearch will be the keynote speaker.

Gather with the nation's genealogists in beautiful Springfield, Illinois for the Federation of Genealogical Societies 2011 Conference, Pathways to the Heartland... September 7-10, 2011

To learn more go to http://fgs.org/2011conference/