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Additional Relief Society Meetings Purpose of Additional Relief Society Meetings Relief Society prepares women for the blessings of eternal life (see Handbook 2,9.1.1). They learn and practice skil…

I have a great family history activity for children to share today – teaching children to find names for the temple by doing family history research with historical records! The activity was …

Making Family History Fun for Families and Youth, The other day, my son came and told me that since he had a Family Search account, he was asked to doing their Family History activity for the Teachers quorum. His leader later asked me if I could help. So, our thought was to show his quorum that Family History Work can be fun!! For me just thinking about Family History work, causes me to get filled with excitement! I believe with all of my heart that those keys from Elijah have been restored…

Get your young women, youth, ward, or family into a habit of family history! You only need 5 minutes to make a progress in family history & you can do it on your phone! The treat tags motivate & the task cards/textables remind. Send them daily or weekly. keep participants accountable! Consider doing a groupchat to share progress & doing it yourself--so they know others are in the trenches with them, with the challenges and rewards of trying to start a new habit that will help them #HearHim…

Here, learn about five family history challenges that you can participate it, by yourself or with a group, to learn and inspire your genealogy research.

I was recently called as a family history consultant in our new ward. It’s a new-to-me calling and I’m learning a lot and enjoying it! We were asked to put on an activity for the youth …

Play one of these great family history games this Easter!

Do the words “plan a Family History Fair'” fill you with dread and uncertainty? You may have a large event focused on genealogy and family history looming, or you may be asked to organi…

We just updated our Resources for Temple and Family History Consultants page today. With so many exciting new resources online to help with family history in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da…

Do you need a fun activity to help the youth in your ward get interested in family history? How about a Family Home Evening or Sunday activity for the whole family? Try MISSION POSSIBLE and see tha…

What are your family history questions to start conversations and learn stories from the past?

On Saturday 7th September Madison and I were privileged to meet with Relief Society ladies in our ward (church congregation) for a her...

FamilySearch.org offers many ways to discover ancestors. Below is a list of the email campaigns and discovery activities that FamilySearch has created to help users discover interesting facts about…

The best genealogy, family history, and temple work quotes inspire us to do more, learn more, and be better - both as people and as genealogists. The best quotes also teach us about the blessings we'll receive when we do our family history work.

"Turn Their Hearts": How We Engaged Our Ward Youth in Family History

It was the summer of 2013 when members of the Cambria Ward, Queen Creek North Stake, Queen Creek, Arizona, were met by an unexpected sight. On entering the church building, they were greeted by a full-sized Christmas tree standing in the foyer.

Looking for a fun activity for children that helps them learn how to use FamilySearch.org? When children look at an online family tree for the first time, it is helpful for them to learn how to nav…

Need a quick and easy outline to teach a Family History class? Grab the course outline, Powerpoint presentation and a hand out all right here! Week 1 of 4.

Online Resources for teachers and families of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

General Conference is only a month a way! How can that be?!? We are still working our way using as many talks as we can for Family Night. It has been such a wonderful experience. I have gained so much rereading and studying these talks from conference. I hope my family has too. Last week we focused on Elder Renlunds' talk Family History and Temple Work: Sealing and Healing. You can find all of the free printables in the download at the end of this post. Here's my outline (these are quotes…