Teaching family history

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Richard Bruce Wheeler said: the information is presented in a useless form. IE most out of date (year old) and material is given in random format. nothing given to "teach" a person how to use current version of familysearch. as Sunday School teachers we are left to create our own presentations for the year. this year we will start a new class starting with the basics and then moving on to the specifics. we follow up with "one-on-one" help as needed. then we help get the ordinance work completed by temple attendance and encouraging others to take their "finds" to the temple. the weekly lessons developed are derived from personal experiences including the discovery of stories about our ancestors. class members share their successes from trips to cemeteries and ancestral sites along with what they find on FamilySearch. partner sites are introduced. the importance of having off-line data base such as Legacy to keep track of trusted information.

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Tom Huber said: The approval process for any Church Publication is lengthy and even back in the early days of FamilySearch FamilyTree (FSFT), the changes soon outdistanced the ability to keep any training or user manual up to date.

As such, any teaching materials that are currently produced are purposely limited to just generalities, such as the research process, and so on. Processes such as attaching sources, merging possible duplicates, are also evolving, along with the hinting system, research helps, and so on.

What has happened is that an enterprising person and helpers have put together a guide that has been "approved by FamilySearch as an official training resource." See https://www.lds.org/callings/temple-a... -- you may want to check out the guide, which is also constantly being revised as new features are introduced or changes are made to the UI (User Interface). The link to the guide is in the referenced article.

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Cynthia Louise Van Dam said: I am under the impression, that we are no longer really supposed to teach Sunday School Classes. We are supposed to individually work with families. That way we can ask them what their goal is and do some background work to make sure we know how to teach them to meet their goal successfully. There is also a tool called the Consultant Planner. Click on the Get Help Section at the top right of any page in FS It is one of the last choices. There is also whole new resource section for us. On Lds.org go to the last tab, Serve and Teach, click it and then scroll down to All Callings. Scroll down again to Family History. Finally there are various groups on Yammer that talk about how to teach Family History. I don't know if you can just go to the website Yammer.com and sign up and then search for Family Search Community or if you have to be invited. I will try and find out.

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Ronald Tilby said: My understanding is that there is no approved curriculum (lesson manual) for teaching a Family History class during Sunday School. And by implication (or possibly direction), LDS Wards should not be holding a Family History Class during the Sunday School time block. Am I wrong?

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Tom Huber said: The decision to call individual members to attend a special class (in this case, Family History) is the Bishop’s prerogative. We have a FHC in our Ward building, so the Bishop issues the call on a limited basis. The sessions are taught by our FHC director.

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Richard Bruce Wheeler said: this is the best site i have found (recently) that is useful to us for preparing lessons.

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Richard Bruce Wheeler said: most of the people in our ward that we work with do not even have their first 4 generations entered in familySearch. many do not have their own parents entered nor is the temple work done. the students love the class because they can't figure out how to use familySearch from guidance given online. when we get together as a group in the Sunday school class they "get it". (the Consultant Planner is generally useless to us as a resource for working with others)

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Richard Bruce Wheeler said: don't know but our ward approves of the class. the students love it. best way to get many started on family history and deal with problems they encounter as they share ideas

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Richard Bruce Wheeler said: the Bishop has delegated FH to the ward FH specialists. it is a full time effort.

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Robert Wren said: Here's "approved" training to consider, from an earlier forum post:

Bob Taylor 15 days ago
Hi Tom - Here's an update: The Church Publications Dept. has vetted the website for The Family History Guide, and it is now an approved training resource for FamilySearch. It has been used for over six months as the go-to training resource for new missionaries at the Family History Library in SLC. Sister Barbara Hogeland has done a great job getting it set up there, with terrific results she says.

Thanks,
Bob Taylor
CEO
The Family History Guide

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Richard Bruce Wheeler said: as noted by Tom Huber (above) the guide is a good resource. (it is one of the best current guides we have found that is maintained.)

DonnaCarlockPortner

how do I print instructions for FAmilySearch. I will be teaching classes as a Family History Consultant and I need a refresher course and need to print instructions

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CaptBob

See if this will work for you:

Www.thefhguide.com