Top ten things to know about temple work

10. Understand Church Policy

9. Understanding the color code and icons in FamilySearch - you can find the meaning of the icons in the tree under SHOW or on the temple page under LEGEND.

8. Find sources - even if the icon is green make sure they have been sourced. Remember you do not know how accurate people are if there are not sources attached to them.

7. The census is our friend! You can find a lot of great information about families in the census records. Do not let the census be the last place you look.

6. Play well with others- we are in this together, let us help each other do the best that we can.

5. Not everything is as it appears to be - study the family and make sure there could not be problems with the family. Does everything make sense? For example - Is everyone the correct gender? Are there gaps between children that are not explained?

4. Do Descendancy Research - when you find someone through this kind of researching do not forget to do number 8.

3. You can share the people you have reserved with family and friends - on your temple page one of the options is to share with the temple or with family and friends. Be sure to contact the people you are sharing the temple cards with so they know to be looking for the request sheet.

2. Investigate everything - question everything - Find the sources needed to make your case. Don't fully believe anything until you have good proof to back it up.

1. Check for duplicates- there are two ways to do this. 1. Click the possible duplicates. 2. Go up to the find button and see if you can search in the system to find someone that is your person, but does not show up in possible duplicates. When you search this way you need to search multiple ways so that you know there is not another one. Please check both ways before you submit their names for the temple.

How to do research:

Pray study pray
This is a spiritual work. We can gain guidance to the information we need as we combine our prayers and our research together.

Happy Searching!

Thursday Evening Ancestry Class

At our Ancestry class on Thursday night, we learned something great about the connection between our Ancestry and FamilySearch accounts. Sources can now be pushed back and forth between the two sites. Here is a brief tutorial on how to work with the sources on both websites.

1. Sign into Ancestry.com

2. Pick the person you want to work with

3. Click on the FamilySearch Button

 4. Click on Compare person on FamilySearch

 5. Scroll down to the sources, and click on the boxes of the sources you want to push across to either site.

6. On Ancestry you will go to your timeline and it will appear as one of the sources. When you click on that source, it will take you to the citation information. When you click on the weblink you will be taken to document on FamilySearch

7. On FamilySearch you will go to the person page, and scroll to the section called sources. You will notice that it shows up as a web source. You will click on the url and it will take you to the Ancestry website, and the document you were looking for.

With the ability to push sources back and forth between Ancestry and FamilySearch can help make it so we only do the work one time. As we collaborate with each other on the web we can further the work of Salvation faster and better than ever before. This is an exciting time to get involved in family history. We hope you take a look at this new function, and play around with it. If you have any questions about it, please come into the center, and we can help you.

Happy Searching!