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I wanted to let everyone know that along with the FamilySearch Instagram Live Streams (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am MDT), we are going to be having Facebook Live Streams every Wednesday at 4pm MDT! Please join us (on the FamilySearch Facebook page) as a way to stay busy during a time of great distress and enjoy some great learning from FamilySearch employees! Topics will change weekly, so if you don't find one week's topic engaging, make sure to come back the next week. We hope to see you there! 
UPDATE: Sorry for any confusion - this is in Mountain Daylight Time and is NOT a required event. This is simply a nice way to engage in family history work that you can share with patrons and participate in yourself while much of the world is under quarantine. If you want to see where it will be, go to this link! If you are unable to view at the time of the streaming, the live streams will be posted HERE upon their completion.
@New Stake Temple and FH Consultants @New Ward Temple and FH Consultants @All Temple & Family History Consultants
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I tuned into the 1st one on Instagram and was not impressed. I do not care much for the instagram platform as you cannot see the comments well as they run over the video and having 2 people on split screen made that extra difficult to see. I though too much conversation and not enough presentation or answering questions. Just my feedback. I am glad to hear that Facebook live will be used as I am more familiar. Have them ask Ron Tanner how he does his because he does a pretty good job, even love his white board when he has to visually describe things.
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@Foster Lee Truman Just a clarification needed - has Utah opted out of Daylight Savings Time and didn't make the switch three weeks ago, or was that a typo in your post that the streams are on MST instead of MDT? Thanks.
-- Chris
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For privacy and security sake, we don't do social media. Does this mean we will miss anything important?
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Why not facebook live streams at 11am? 4pm is too late for Europe. You have Instagram twice at 11am yet not everyone uses Instagram. Would it be possibe to do both platforms at 11am and 4pm?
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I do not use any of the streaming social media, such as Instagram, or Facebook, as I feel there leave us to vulnerable to scam hacking. So I haven't even learned how to use them. Nor do I intend to. If this is a problem, you can release Claudia and I from our callings as family history consultants.
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This sounds incredible! I am really looking forward to it! Thank you!
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Hmmm,...obviously, we are not all on the same page when it comes to social media, perhaps, not even in the same book. I, for one am probably in the middle. I get on Facebook and Instragram, usually by receiving some form of invitation, but have not idea what to do with it, read a few postings and the close the app still scratching my head wondering what just happened. I guess I'd have to say I'm not afraid of it but I surely don't understand it. So, to help those not comfortable with SM, is there a way to record the sessions and post them elsewhere, perhaps, as a blog post? (that wold help the world time zone issues too)
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If you can't see the videos, that's okay. They are not mandatory for anyone. They are a bright spot in this current world pandemic and I appreciate the wonderful effort to connect with each other. Thank you for your efforts! Great job!!
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I looked for all temple & family history consultants and Foster...... What is it under?
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I saw an article about this a while back, and wanted to share it on FB, but did not do so at the time. Now, I can't find it. Does anyone have an article that can be shared?
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@Eric Dalton Those are just two of many resources out there, and great suggestions for those that use them. However, there are many, many more, and many of them are directly within or associated with FamilySearch. This very discussion group's purpose is to help share resources. Facebook and Instagram seem to be very popular with some, and in my own ward and stake they seem to be the "go-to" means of communication from some leaders to the general membership. But that is not how the Brethren have suggested we use them - they are simply a tool. Personally, I deleted my Facebook account quite some time ago for both social and security concerns, and will not re-open my account in the future. I use Instagram very little, and mainly so I can see more of what's happening with our children and great grand children. But that at least allowed me to view the first instance of this new streaming option - and it was nice. Still, it is simply one of the many social media outlets the Church has chosen to utilize in an effort to reach as many as possible, particularly in these challenging times and circumstances.
There is so much you can do as temple and family history consultants even with just (and "just" is quite an understatement) the resources within FamilySearch and the broader Family History Department (which includes RootsTech). As consultants, you can work one-on-one with others (including those that are not members of our Church) to help them build their trees, using the "Planner" (formerly called the "Consultant Planner"), for example. It allows you to view people's individual FamilySearch screens without connecting to their own computers, thereby preserving privacy and security. You'd only be essentially logging into their FamilySearch account, with their explicit permission, and you can then talk them through various screens, point out changes they could make, etc., while talking to them on the phone to preserve separation and distance needed at this time. And if for any reason they wish to discontinue your access to their FamilySearch account, they can do so quickly, easily, and with a click of the mouse.
By the way, no one here would have either the desire or the ability to release you from your callings as temple and family history consultants - that came from your bishop. You're in a very valuable calling - one of the two specific callings directly associated with what President Nelson termed the most important work on the earth today. Speaking to just the youth, but applicable to each one of us, he said, "My dear extraordinary youth, you were sent to earth at this precise time, the most crucial time in the history of the world, to help gather Israel. There is nothing happening on this earth right now that is more important than that. There is nothing of greater consequence. Absolutely nothing. This gathering should mean everything to you. This is the mission for which you were sent to earth." [Italicized emphasis was his, not mine.]
The gathering he referred to is the combination of missionary work here on the earth, and its equivalent on the other side of the veil, along with our responsibility of qualifying our ancestors for those same blessings. Just as paperwork has to be completed before a person can be baptized, endowed, or sealed, paperwork has to be completed in the form of accurate linking on FamilySearch, and then printing out of ordinance cards so those same ordinances can be completed for our waiting deceased ancestors. Your calling is to assist those in your ward to complete as much of that as possible by showing them how to do it and encouraging them along the way. There are all kinds of resources out there - just use those that work best for you, even if you choose to only use those available directly through FamilySearch and RootsTech. There's more than we can fully absorb there anyway!
Thank you for joining in here, and for having accepted your important callings. It's not about Facebook or Instagram or Google, or any of those resources individually. It's about a much greater work. Here are two links for you: (1) an excellent article on use of the Planner on FamilySearch, and (2) a brand new message from President Nelson that is among the most powerful (and sobering yet hopeful) messages I've yet seen from him. It just keeps getting better! 😊
-- Chris
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On Facebook, which FamilySearch facebook page are you talking about? FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Indexing, FamilySearch Records, FamilySearch Users Group, FamilySearch Ordinance Users Group, etc, etc, etc?
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How do you find the site for the classes. I looked on Facebook and could not find it.
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Utah still participates in daylight savings.
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@Kari Lynn karilynnholliday1 Having not heard back from @Foster Lee Truman so far, I'm just going to assume he meant to type MDT but with the recent switch was still "programmed" to the previous winter-long MST. Thanks for the clarification/confirmation. I have been reading that Utah is really pushing for permanent year-round time instead of switching, but didn't know what the actual status is.
-- Chris
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Let me first say that I don't like the effort to go to MDT year round. For rural people, it really stinks because cows don't have clocks. The promoters simply want another hour after work for people to shop. The law signed today only goes into effect if the surrounding states do so too. If it should, we would have two hour difference between the west coast and the mountain states in summer with Arizona in between.
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Is there an "event" link anywhere for the FB activity that I can share on my own facebook page or my ward's facebook page?
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@Foster Lee Truman can you drop the Facebook Live Stream link here?
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What is the Facebook link to see the meeting?
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@UptainMichelle UptainMichelle sorry for the confusion. This will NOT be on Communities but on FamilySearch's official facebook. The exact link is https://www.facebook.com/familysearch/live/. Hope this clears things up!
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@A Harris here is the BLOG ARTICLE and here is the link to the Facebook Live Stream!
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@Thomas NeVille Tippets Thomas, I apologize for the confusion. I was referring to the FamilySearch.org facebook page. To further help you out, here's the link to where you can see the upcoming stream's for the page! https://www.facebook.com/familysearch/live/
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@gonion gonion here is the link for the Facebook live stream! Sorry for the confusion! https://www.facebook.com/familysearch/live/
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@pstephenson1 pstephenson1 @Amber Marstella Rothamer here is our Facebook live stream link: https://www.facebook.com/familysearch/live/
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@Cindy Hecker Cindy, sorry to hear that you didn't like the first Instagram. You'll probably enjoy the Facebook streams more - the comments are not in the window and the format allows us to share our screen so we can do more technical things (like show tutorials on FamilySearch!). Thanks for your comment!
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@Steven A Jones don't worry at all! These live streams are more a nice way to do family history online and receive instruction from FamilySearch employees while much of the world is on quarantine. There will be no essential instruction provided.
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@Karen 19 thank you for the suggestion. While we cannot do both platforms at the same time (they require different technology but have the same host). One nice thing is that all livestreams will be uploaded to our facebook video page after their completion!
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@earllord earllord thanks for the question! All of the livestreams will be posted to our Facebook video page after they finish! I hope that permits you to view them! (here is the link to that page by the way: https://www.facebook.com/pg/familysearch/videos/?ref=page_internal)
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