Events Included Free Performance by David Mccullough and Mormon Tabernacle Choir

FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER Volume IV, Issue 5 May 2010

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300 Million Names and Salt Lake City Hosts a Week New Tools Help of Family History Celebration

Genealogists Events included free performance by David McCullough and Mormon Tabernacle New Resources and Tool for Family Historians Choir 28 April 2010 9 March 2010 https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilyS earch_Record_Search_Updates SALT LAKE CITY — Family history took center stage in Salt Lake City during the week of April 26, 2010, with four genealogy Salt Lake City, Utah—FamilySearch conferences taking place simultaneously. International announced today that it has Over 200 genealogy workshops were offered posted an additional 300 million names to its through May 1, giving everyone from novices huge family history database. The names to advanced researchers access to come from extracted original sources and unprecedented learning opportunities. include many collections that have never before been available online. The move bolsters FamilySearch's earlier announce- Conference organizers decided to offer ments regarding ongoing efforts to digitize attendees the rare chance to attend more than the billions of genealogical records stored in one of the conferences by conveniently its Granite Mountain Records Vault near Salt holding them all in one week in Salt Lake City. Lake City, Utah. The marquee event was the National Genealogical Society’s Annual Conference. This premier conference returned to Salt Lake The names can be found on the City for only the second time in 25 years. Also beta.familysearch.org Web site. That site scheduled for that week were BYU’s and several other online tools and resources, Conference on Computerized Family History can be accessed at labs.familysearch.org. and Genealogy, BYU’s Family History Technology Workshop, and FamilySearch’s Developers Conference for software FamilySearch developers. Paul Nauta 801-240-6498 A wide range of U.S. and international research topics were covered and participants [email protected] Read the were encouraged to bring and work on their entire article at personal family research projects. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Ho Conferences also featured technology me/News/frameset_news.asp? sessions and exhibitors spotlighting PAGE=Press/2010-4- technologies that offer solutions to genealogy 28_300_Million_Names_and_New_Tools challenges. _Help_Genealogists.asp Another highlight of the week was a free [These two articles may be found program, “A Celebration of Family History,” on the familysearch.org website at presented by David McCullough, the Mormon “News and Events.”] Tabernacle Choir, and the Orchestra at Temple Square.

1 which was then a fusion of two missions in life. FIVE INSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS SHOWN IN CONFERENCE A woman curious about her grandfather’s CENTER ON 29 APRIL arrival in the United States finds letters in her father’s closet from her great- Besides inspirational music and speeches, grandmother to her grandfather who had the audience in the Convention Center on fought in the German Army during 29 April enjoyed 5 inspirational videos WWII [1939]. “Letters from Estonia” presented by FamilySearch. chronicles her grandfather’s escape into Sweden, his subsequent marriage, and his The five video segments shown at 'A trip to Washington. Using the addresses Celebration of Family History' night were on the letters, the storyteller writes to posted to lds.org, via the Newsroom site. Estonia and is amazed to get a response. What happens next touches your heart. The first video “Woven Generations” features a young woman who is leaving Why did Jared announce to his parents her mother and her country by ship. Her that he had a great desire to play the mother gives her a ball of yarn, which bagpipes? He drove everybody crazy she unravels until she can no longer see with the noise, but his persistence in her mother who has asked her not to “Clan McCloud” inspires the family to forget the family. The ball of yarn is a tie discover a Scottish background on both between the present and the past. Family parents’ sides and causes his sisters to history is that string connecting the learn highland dances and get involved in traveler to the past. Preserving our learning about their heritage. Find out if ancestors’ stories weaves the fabric of he ever learned to play bagpipes. human kind so that they shall not be forgotten. Below is the link to the videos. You may have to download a Quick Time Player to “ Searching for Emma” is the heart- view the videos, but the experience is wrenching story of a genealogist seeking worthwhile. Here is the link. the story of her ancestor Emma who contracted leprosy and married a leper in http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsro the 19th century. It is sad to learn the fate om/eng/news-releases-stories/-a- of her six children. celebration-of-family-history-delights- thousands-of-genealogy- In “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory,” a enthusiasts#media-video g-g-g-grandson tells how Julia Ward By Sylvia Sonneborn Howe lay awake, remembering the women who had husbands and sons fighting in the Civil War and thinking President Henry B. Eyring, first about the men in prison camps. Suddenly counselor in the First Presidency, the words to the “Battle Hymn of the spoke to those assembled. In his Republic” came into her mind, and she remarks he acknowledged the quickly arose and recorded them. unique support family history Abraham Lincoln wept when he heard researchers offer one another. the song. The g-g-g-grandson tells how “You have built and preserved a community where the mentor that Martin Luther King, Jr., used lines from helps those less skilled is revered,” Howe’s song to end his last speech, President Eyring said. “It is rare in history for such a community to

1 emerge. It is rarer still for such a Read entire article at community to sustain itself.” http://granitegenealogy.blogspot.co m/ GENEALOGY CONFERENCE NEW FAMILY SEARCH PRODUCT LINKS PREPARED BY SUE MANAGER CLEARS UP SOME MAXWELL MISUNDERSTANDING

We can’t say enough about Sue Maxwell’s blog (address at end of article). There is not space There is some confusion that needs to be for all the wonderful sites that contain cleared up. The website information about the 4 consecutive beta.familysearch.org that will genealogical conferences going on in Salt Lake City this past month, so Sue has posted links eventually replace the familysearch.org on her blog. Just click on a link. site is available to any user free of charge. The beta.familysearch.org Ancestry Insider - Review Dick Eastman - Day 1 at conference website currently provides the millions of Dick Eastman - Wrap-up report additional records and is the site where Genea-Musings - Randy Seaver's Review digitized and indexed records will Genea-Musings - More from Randy Upstate New York Genealogy Blog - Review eventually reside. The Genealogy Search Blog - Review Genealogy Files Moving to Digital The website new.familysearch.org is Ancestry.com Announcements at NGS - Dr D Digs Up Ancestors currently only available to members of Family connections help create 'spirit of unity the LDS church. Eventually as required NGS Exhibition hall plenty lively features are added to Decompressing from NGS 2010, Salt Lake City new.familysearch.org, the site will Family History Conference Index become part of www.familysearch.org NGS Conference News and will eventually allow public users to A Hopping Genealogy Joint A Family History Celebration have access to the tree. That time has not NGS 2010 FH Conference was a Huge Success been determined, and when it does Family Connections Help Create 'Spirit of happen, plans are to regulate the growth Unity' 'Addicts' Revel in Finding Ancestry of the site by allowing current users to invite others until we can get the site to a Workshop Reviews: point where it can sustain a significant Digitizing Family History Treasures Using the Law for Research number of users. Only then can access to How to Find Poor Ancestors the general public to In a Cloud of Genealogy new.familysearch.org be considered. Ellis Island Records have Problems Preserving, Sharing Records of World Research Ancestors' Historical Context for Thanks, Meaning Ron Tanner Train Up Your Voice Recognition Software Finding Women: The Ultimate Family History nFS Product Manager, FamilySearch Brick Wall Camp Aims to Get Kids Interested in Family History FAMILY HISTORY ARCHIVE Sharing the Joy Sorenson Molecular--100,000 DNA Samples AND FSBETA Attracting the Young Through Computerized Genealogy Family History Archive is just what the Keeping the Stuff You Keep: Preserving name implies--family histories. Family Documents, Photos Research Ancestors' Historical Context for History Archive is through BYU. Meaning http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php A Lot Doing a Little The place to go to search for records is at Digitization Changes Family History, But Still Need for Non-Digital pilot.familysearch.org or Where do 300 Million Names Come From? labs.familysearch.org and By Sue Maxwell

1 http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/. The more -Standard res with mono - of us that help index, the faster those 2 sec. parish registers will be available for you White Balance Auto to search in your jammies!! USB Port USB 2.0 high speed Portable Scanner-Magic Wand: Power Source 2xAA Batteries PDS-ST410-VP (included)Battery Life Approx. 180 color or 200 monochromatic I found this new scanner, reviewed and scans tested by Dick Eastman, very exciting. I Dimension (LxHxW) 10” x 1.2” x needed to have such a thing as I prepare a 1.1” LCD Display Size 0.787” x slide show for my 50th class reunion – 0.59” Weight 7.5 oz (with scanning from scrapbooks and such. batteries) Hurrah! Thought I should tell you about Support System Driver Free to download it as some have asked me about portable for Windows® XP scanners. Email me if you have SP2/ Windows® questions. lida larkin Vista/ Windows® 7™ and http://www.vupointsolutions.com/PDS- Macintosh 10.4 or ST410-VP.asp above ( direct plug-in, driver installation not required) Accessories Available at Bed, Bath and Beyond - Price: $99.99 (saves paying shipping, too)& has a cover included MicroSD card not included but necessary Model PDS-ST410-VP – Dick Eastman Features Fast and convenient way found a 4GB card to scan, archive & organize for your for $15 and 8GB personal use card for $24.95. Sensor A4 Color Contact image The 4GB card I Resolution Standard Reso: bought at Walmart 300x300dpi (default); High Reso: for $15 also 600x600dpi included the External Memory Support Micro SD card up adapter for to 32GB (Micro SD card not included) compatibility. File Format JPEG LCD Scanning status display Thanks to Lida Larkin Auto Power Off Off/ 3 minute/ 5 minute Scanning Speed Approximate scanning GOOD SITES TO LOOK AT speed (standard letter size) -High res. with color - 13 sec. MORMON TIMES -High res with mono - 6 http://www.mormontimes.com/mormo sec. n_living/family_history/?id=14573 -Standard res. with color - 3 sec. DESERET NEWS

1 http://www.deseretnews.com/article/ Do I begrudge someone posting the index 700027638/Person-pages-are-the- and not the original record? No. In fact, wave-of-genealogy-future.html once I knew where the marriage occurred, it was easy to find the WHY DOESN’T THE CHURCH christening record for this ancestor and JUST POST THE RECORDS AND dozens of other relatives. FORGET INDEXING? Another great thing about indexing is that Sometimes I feel that someone (lots of you can search on different criteria -- first deceased “someones”) are peering over names, surnames, dates, places, etc. my shoulder and helping me find them in When the surname is misspelled, I have the records. It is fun to do research in searched by first name and found my original records, but not everyone has the families. time or experience to do it. Many others have discussed the legal and Great things happen with indexing. It is a financial obligations of the Church to the blessing to have access to both the Archives. The Church doesn't own the original records as well as the indexing. records but is entrusted with copies of these documents. We are blessed to have The indices through the Church have access to them, but the original archives helped me find many other relatives -- the could withdraw privileges if the owners aunts and uncles, cousins, siblings, etc. I wanted. love to see the records if at all possible, but I have also been blessed just seeing We may not have time and/or the index. circumstances to participate in family search indexing, but we can encourage I would rather have an index and not and pray for others who are involved. We have to wade through 500 pages of can pray that the records we need are microfilm -- only to find I am looking in moved up in the queue too. the wrong place. When we are anxious over this work, it is Many years ago someone indexed the better to remember whose errand we are marriage records for the town of doing. I love the Savior's kind counsel in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The Luke 12:32 -- "Fear not, little flock; for marriages were then submitted for it is your Father’s good pleasure to ordinances (this was prior to the rule give you the kingdom." It is comforting when the marriage sealings couldn't be to know we are part of the Savior's "little completed unless the individual work flock.” was done). How blessed we are to be laboring in I discovered that my 5th great- family history and temple work. We are grandfather from Groningen had married all doing something important in these a girl from Leeuwarden. No wonder I eternal efforts. hadn't found her in Groningen!! Mary Scott If the original records were posted, I Northville Ward, Westland Michigan wouldn't have looked in Leeuwarden but Stake, Detroit Michigan Temple District would have been checking Groningen and the surrounding villages. I'd probably German Genealogical Website still be looking today. This site is a treasure trove of information for German research. It

1 includes a beginner's guide and  Arcalife for the “Best New hundreds of links: Web site” http://www.germanroots.com/  MobileTree for “Best New Washington DC, Generations Newsletter Mobile” product  FamilyInsight for “Best New 2010 FamilySearch Software Macintosh” product Best New Feature Awards Award Recipients Announced  OurFamilogy for “Best Research” feature SALT LAKE CITY, 19 May, —  SharingTime for “Best Recipients of the 2010 FamilySearch Collaboration” feature Software Awards were announced at the FamilySearch Developers Conference in  Genetree for “Best DNA” Salt Lake City, Utah. The 14 recipients feature were recognized for their outstanding and  Ancestral Hunt for the “Best innovative work in advancing products Geo-Mapping” feature and technologies that integrate with  FamilyPursuit for the “Best FamilySearch’s emerging suite of Groups” feature products and services.  Photoloom for the “Best Media” feature The annual FamilySearch Software  FamilyChArtist for the “Best Awards has been established to Print” feature encourage and recognize software  AppleTree for the “Best development that benefits the growing Celebrity Tree” feature demands and needs of family history consumers. “The awards formally Community Player Awards recognize the software achievements of  Gaylon Finlay, Incline those developers and companies that are Software, “Bug Hunter” making important contributions to the award family history and genealogy industry,”  Michael Booth and Bruce said Gordon Clarke, FamilySearch Buzbee, Roots Magic, developer services product manager. “Trailblazer” award

The Best New Product awards were given to applicants in different platform LEARN HOW TO USE A COMPUTER categories. Products with specific features deemed important to the growth Beginners, have you ignored new of the industry received the Best New FamilySearch because you are afraid that Feature award. Community Player your computer skills are not good enough awards recognized individuals who have to master a computer program? If that is made exceptional contributions to the the case, here are some good website software developer community. tutorials to help you boost your computer skills before you start with your family The following recipients were announced history. Try some of these: and awards presented at the http://rc.dimes.org/alternet/main/intro/intr FamilySearch Developers Conference: o.htm http://www.ctdlc.org/remediation/ Best New Product Awards http://rc.dimes.org/alternet/main/intro/intr  The MagiKey for the “Best o.htm New Windows” product http://www.uvpafug.org/classes/PC_Basi cs.pdf By Sue Maxwell

1 how to use it) and genealogy (older http://www.uvpafug.org/classes/Operatin people are doing more of it). gSystems.pdf By Sue Maxwell 2. Jay Verkler, President and CEO of FamilySearch, gave the keynote address at NGS meeting on "From the Granite SOME THINGS I LEARNED AT Mountain to the Ends of the World" with THE 2010 BYU COMPUTERIZED a virtual tour of the Vault, how the GENEALOGY CONFERENCE AND digital pipeline works, and what's ahead THE 2010 NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 3. FH Consultants were invited to a ANNUAL MEETING meeting in SL Tabernacle on Tuesday evening; Elder Allan Packer of 70, Exec 26 APR - 1 MAY 2010, Salt Palace, Salt Dir of FH Dept and son of Elder Boyd K. Lake City, Utah Packer, spoke on history of FH in the By Donald R. Snow Church, how many people are helping, and some new things coming These are a few things I learned and are not in any particular order, nor is this 4. A wonderful 2-hour program in the complete. The talks went from Monday Conference Center on Thursday evening, through Saturday, from 8 am to evening, "A Celebration of Family History", with and each of the two printed syllabi Pres. Eyring and David McCullough are about 2 inches thick. You may still be speaking, Tabernacle Choir, and 5 short able to purchase CD's with pdf's of the videos about FH ; extremely well done -- entire sets of talks. The URL's for the will hopefully be released on DVD conferences - with schedules of talks, and/or shown on BYUTV or elsewhere etc., are http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwcompu/_ and 5. Notes of the talks by the FamilySearch http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/Confer staff are on the FamilySearch Wiki at ences/2010Program.cfm_ http://wiki.familysearch.org_ CD's of many talks from the NGS http://wiki.familysearch.org/ -- do a meeting will be available from - search for "familysearch http://www.jamb-inc.com/_ . The NGS 2010 NGS" or "familysearch 2010 BYU" brochure about the conference is at (without the quotes), or by http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/galleries/ne name, e.g. Alan Mann, Jim Greene, Tim w-gallery/Registration_brochure.pdf_ Cross, Michael Ritchey, etc.; For talks at the 2010 BYU Computerized also Alan Mann's articles page is Genealogy Conf see http://alanmann.com/articles/_ _https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Family Search_Presentations_at_BYU_2010_ 6. FAMILYSEARCH: Much discussion Publicity info for the entire week is at about https://wiki.familysearch.org_ -- http://www.familysearch.org/eng/home/news was suggested we ALL contribute info to /frameset_news.asp?PAGE=Press/2010-3- it. 9_SLC_Prepares_for_Week_of_FH_Celebrat COMMUNITY TREES: ion.asp_ http://histfam.familysearch.org/learnmore .php_ 1. David Rencher, Chief Genealogical FamilySearch announced 300 million Officer of FamilySearch, gave the new names posted last week on keynote address at BYU Computerized beta.familysearch.org from Indexing; Conf on the gap and how to bridge it register http://beta.familysearch.org_ for between technology (young people know

1 a free account and search it and give them feedback on operations 11. Announcements by commercial site MAPS OF ENGLAND: ANCESTRY.COM that they have a new http://maps.familysearch.org - wonderful search engine, that Family Tree Maker map sets and viewer; can search online will be released for Mac's, and that Family History Library Catalog by using they have posted both reference books GenSeek for additional searches you can't "The Source" and "The Red Book" online do on the FHLC directly. and free for everyone at their wiki. INDEXING: Was stated that all the http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php microfilms in the Granite Mountain Vault ?title=Main_Page_ . will be digitized within 8-10 years. New FamilySearch will be released to 12. Class was held demo-ing how we Asian Temples this Summer and to could do FH research in a networked everyone (non-LDS included) this Fall. group with people in different locations - Updated Family History Library use Skype or other communication to Favorites are available to download at talk; person in charge assigns others to FHL -- see info and how to download look up data in FHL, or on Ancestry.com, earlier version from search censuses on FamilySearch.org, https://wiki.familysearch.org another to go to cemetery and photograph the tombstones, one to compile all data 7. Lots of emphasis on social networking the others send him and post it n Footnote for genealogy by using things like Person Page; all done in real time. FaceBook (person pages), Twitter, Google Docs, Google Wave, scribd.com, 13. Take a look at Dick Eastman's and others -- FACEBOOK is now the presentation about backups at most used website, surpassing Google http://prezi.com/kxoaczct_yxv/oh-my- recently. See several of Alan Mann's goodness-wheres-my-data/ talks. 14. Several talks on using GOOGLE in 8. Several freeware programs and online FH with the usual things, plus that you note storage websites helpful for FH were can save your search parameters by discussed -- OneNote, Zotero, Google saving them as bookmarks; can set Docs, and Zoho -- many uses for FH Google Alerts to tell you when it finds notes. more things for the search parameters you specify; can use Google maps 9. GOOGLE Earth program -- download to make up migration routes, etc. for free; very helpful for FH; shows 3D views and maps and overlays; lots of 15. Several talks discussed the Standard features; Google Maps now shows part of of Proof for Genealogy: it online without downloading the Google a. Reasonably exhaustive research Earth program, but not as feature-rich. b. Complete and accurate source identification 10. New items on Footnote -- many new c. Skilled analysis and correlation records; now have free "Person Pages"; of data they have already set up Person Pages for d. Resolution of any conflicts in everyone in Social Security Death Index; evidence you can set up others for your e. A soundly reasoned conclusion ancestors; can store images of or "proof argument" documents, photos, etc.

1 16. Military Redress Claims Applications for Civil War, etc. - very valuable for FH 22. Our talk (Don and Diane Snow) on since they list property, family members, "Freeware for FH" from the losses, etc. Conf last week will be repeated (in different format) at the UVPAUG 17. "Genealogy Boot Camp for 21st meeting, Provo, this Saturday morning, 8 Century" presentation by Tom Kemp May -- see details on showed several helpful suggestions and http://uvpafug.org_ URL's and a picture of an artifact for Thanks to Don Snow for this useful and sale on eBay that gave an ancestor's thorough Conference Report name; suggested posting your FH research, photos, and docs online See Don Snow’s class notes at somewhere (Facebook, Footnote, http://www.uvpafug.org/classes/dons/don scribd.com, etc.) so it will be available - s-classes.html said he almost died 2 years ago and realized much of his research would be NEW FAMILYSEARCH TO BE lost; said his presentation had been RELEASED TO 2000 PUBLIC videotaped earlier in the week for posting MEMBERS THIS FALL online (I assume at either http://wiki.familysearch.org or NFS will be released to a test group of http://www.familysearch.org under 2000 non-LDS this fall. Depending on Library Education.) how that goes --a general release date may be set for sometime in 2011. 18. Idea to help make more effective Laurie Castillo presentations and stay within time limits -- have some mark you recognize in your That announcement was made by PowerPoint (e.g. move a symbol to a Elder Allan Packer at the FH Consultants different place) that tells you meeting in the SL Tabernacle Tuesday that you should be half way through the evening. presentation; then have fillers (she called Don Snow them "zippers" - short stories) that are not in your PowerPoint and that you can put This from the Genealogy Insider in or leave out to stretch or shrink your Newsletter presentation when you see it's going short or too long. Footnote Newspaper Collection Is Free Today – ends May 31 19. Several new Affiliate programs for Posted by Diane new FamilySearch - see full list on http://www.familysearch.org/eng/affiliate FOOTNOTE OFFER: You’ll need a free s/index.html basic registration to access search results, then you’ll be able to download articles 20. Many vendors with new programs to your computer. and URL's; many give-aways and drawings; see list of vendors on Take advantage of Footnote’ free Conference websites. newspaper collection offer starting here. 21. The National Map (of US) -- very To see a list of available newspaper titles helpful USGS online maps at and coverage years, click here and then http://nationalmap.gov/_ choose a state. Note that papers for many

1 titles date from the mid- to late-1900s. lida larkin YORK, PA, CEMETERY RECORDS

You can also visit me at 05-19-2010 Created page for Mt. Pleasant www.tipsforfamilyhistory.com COG Cemetery, Monaghan Township, Updated page for St. David's (Sherman's) Cemetery, West Manheim Township by Kathy Francis Dick Eastman suggests – Branches http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/yo at http://www.branchesgenealogy.com rk/yccemeteries.htm

THANKS TO KATHY FRANCIS Disk 35 was posted online Kathy Francis deserves a round of http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ applause for transcribing Harry Senft’s familyhart/pictures/HarrySenft/ cemetery pictures, and other cemeteries 1. Missed Pictures, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, on these two web sites: Monaghan Twp, York, PA 2. Hopewell Cemetery, Hopewell Twp, York, PA http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/yor 3. Kreutz Creek (Old Section) Cemetery, Hellam Twp, York, PA k/yccemeteries.htm 4. Mount Olivet United Methodist Cemetery, Hopewell Twp, York, PA http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/ada 5 . Presbyterian Union Cemetery, Wrightsville, York, PA. ms/accemeteries.htm 6. Saint John Catholic Cemetery, New Freedom, York, PA 7. Saint John Lutheran Sadlers Cemetery, Hopewell Twp, York, PA Thank You, Kathy, for the good you 8. Saint Mary's Chapel Cemetery, Wrightsville, do to preserve the identity of our York, PA ancestors. 9. Stewartstown Cemetery, Stewartstown, York,

HARRY E SENFT http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.c 3048 SOLAR DR om/familyhart/pictures/HarrySenft/ DOVER, PA 17315 Harry Senft – Thanks, Harry and 717) 792-9253 Kathy and the Hartmans FROM G.N.

nd DIETZ CEMETERY, HELLAM Jacob Ward of the York 2 Ward indexed the Fishel’s Church New Hope Cemetery for his Eagle Scout project Subject: Disk 32: The indices for the with helpers, Glen Rock, PA. cemetery pictures for Dietz Cemetery Thanks, Jake. in Hellam Township, York County, Pennsylvania are now online at: NEWSPAPER MAP http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.c om/familyhart/pictures/HarrySenft/ind This Newspaper Map is truly ex.html#32-1 amazing....Just put your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and the Don & Jeanine Hartman newspaper headlines pop up... FamilyHart http://familyhart.info Double click and the page gets twitter-@familyhart larger....you can read the entire paper

1 on some if you click on the right place. Dear Family History Consultants, Family You can spend forever here History Center Directors, and Stake Also, if you look at the European papers, Extraction Directors: the left side of Germany will pop up as The Stars & Stripes (European edition, of FamilySearch invites you to become a course). AND, this site changes every member of the FamilySearch online day with the publication of new editions community. The community resources of the paper. will become invaluable as you do your own family history work or help others http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontp with theirs. In addition, community ages/flash/ members’ experience and assistance is needed in building online help for family Thanks to Mark Gagermeier for the map. history enthusiasts and newcomers. COMMUNITY RESOURCES Czech Republic, Mexico, and U.S. FamilySearch Research Wiki Records Added On the Research Wiki you can:  Find information about resources Eight new searchable collections were available for family history research updated or added this week at in a particular geographic area. FamilySearch.org—millions of new free  Determine where best to look for images and records. records from a specific time period.  Add information about a place that This week the complete name indexes for you’ve been to or researched. the states of Alabama, Colorado, and  Add information about records or Illinois were published online at archives that will help others. FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot (FamilySearch.org, click Search You can access the Research Wiki by Records, and then click Record Search clicking this link: pilot) or Beta.FamilySearch.org. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Pa ge . You do not need to register in order The Delaware state birth records, 1875 to contribute to the site if you already Minnesota State Census, and Illinois, have an LDS Account. Cook County birth records were also added. FamilySearch Forums On the FamilySearch Forums site, you Also released was a digital image can find answers to any question that you collection of church records from may have. Here you can ask about: Litomerice, Czech Republic—60,000  Specific ancestors that you’re trying images! Consumers will see these types to find. of collections more and more online as  Which records are best for a FamilySearch digitizes microfilms in its particular time period. Granite Mountain Records Vault. Instead  Locations of resources. of a microfilm reader in a local family  Features of new.familysearch.org. history center, patrons use  Any other FamilySearch product or FamilySearch’s image viewer online to Web site, such as the Indexing site. search these high quality digital collections—and they are accessible 24/7. To access the FamilySearch Forums, click here: The FamilySearch Community http://forums.familysearch.org . If you register on the site, you will need to set and Resources up a user name and password because the

1 Forums site has not yet converted to the St. George went from 24 family history LDS Account system. Hint: It is centers down to 7 just recently. A new recommended that when you register for family history library, designed to create more Forums, you choose the same user name space, extended hours and expanded resources and password that you use for your LDS for family history work, will open next month in the south end of the Salt Lake Valley. The Account so that you will not have to Riverton FamilySearch Library will be an asset change your user information later. similar to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The new library will have 127 patron computers, multiple training rooms, a Where do I go from here? large auditorium and a collection of microfilm.  Join the community, and contribute Patrons will have access to subscription to both the FamilySearch Research genealogy sites, such as Ancestry.com, that Wiki and the FamilySearch Forums! would not be available at a smaller family Others need the information that history center. Information from Mormon Times you have.  Please share information about RIVERTON FAMILYSEARCH these sites with members of your LIBRARY units and FHC patrons. Both the FamilySearch Research Wiki and the My wife and I went up to Riverton to see FamilySearch Forums improve as the new Riverton FamilySearch Library more patrons use and contribute to last week, and it is really something. It's these sites. in the 4-story building near 134th South Your contribution to this great cause is and Bangerter Highway. The Church very much appreciated. Please come bought the building from Intel a couple share what you know! of years ago when Intel let it go on a "fire sale.” The Church calls the building the FamilySearch Riverton Office Building, and it already houses some offices, like Welfare If they were your ancestors, Services and Employment Services and would it not be a glorious thing some IT departments. The Riverton to enter a temple, and say to FamilySearch Library is on the main them, floor. It has 127 computer stations, all “Here are my eyes; together we will linked to the FHL computers, plus look upon the beauty of the Lord's house. several wonderfully equipped teaching Here are my ears; let us hear the rooms nearby, including one large words of eternal life. one. The large one divides into fourths, Here are my lips; we will make and each of the fourths seats 100, I think, sacred covenants. and is equipped as a classroom. All the Here are my hands; together we classrooms and seminar rooms have LCD will receive the gifts of life projectors in the ceilings, plus flat panel everlasting. computer monitor screens at the front. I Here are my knees; kneel with me at the altars of salvation, there understand that they are going to have to become one with all those we about 50,000 microfilms, but I didn't hear both love. I will remember you." how many film readers. Nor do I know (S. Michael Wilcox, p.99.) how many hardcopy FH books they plan to have. There is also a large cafeteria on CLOSING OF SMALL FAMILY the main floor that's the size of the one in HISTORY CENTERS TO CREATE the Church Office Building. LARGE CENTERS There is plenty of free parking right in front of the building, and the building

1 looks brand new, though it has been there So, with that in mind, here are some web for several years. I don't think Intel every sites to visit. This first one may be the fully moved into it. We were told the FS only one you need. It's very Library Open House is planned for comprehensive, and I have pulled most of sometime in June, and the Library will be my program material from here. open for patrons sometime after that. www.scantips.com They are already planning evening FH classes and a FH seminar and are hoping This one is from Microsoft. It pertains to that all the FH consultants from the scanning documents mostly. It has a few FHC's that are closing will volunteer tips that are useful once you understand there. It was really impressive. the basics of scanning. http://office.microsoft.com/en- us/help/CH010000931033.aspx Posted by Don REMEMBER THE SANDBOX This site is much like the Microsoft site - good info - terrible web navigation. It has FH CONSULTANTS: The Sandbox some very good samples of Moire' practice site is for use by family history patterns. We will talk about Moire' in the consultants to practice procedures in new meeting so you may want to read about FamilySearch and to train others. The this one. test site address is: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/scanning http://training.familysearch.org /Scanning_Tutorials_for_Image_and_Do Consultants can go there and create a test cument_Scanning.htm site to use for 6 months and try out things that they need to practice in nFS. VueScan is a scanning program I plan to review and possibly buy. If I get it, you NEWS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA will see it used during the program. TRAIL GENEALOGY CLUB http://www.hamrick.com/

I will be doing next week’s program at Have you been watching the NBC series the meeting. This month's program is “Who Do You Thing You Are?”? Have about scanning and editing your Photos you missed an episode or wished you and Documents. I have presented this could view one again? Then go here on- program in the past several times. Each line to view complete shows and view time I do the program, I try to update it bonus material not shown on TV! with the latest information and take out material that I find folks don't really http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think- understand or even care much about. you-are/video/? While preparing this month’s program, I sssdmh=dm13.242233&o_iid=43420&o_ was getting ready to add Internet links to lid=43420 the end of the slide program and thought, "Hey! Everyone has email now. Why Thanks to Mark Gagermeier, VP of the don't I send them an email with the web STGC, who presented a program on links before the meeting so they have a scanners at the last meeting chance to look at the material before they LOOKING FOR CANADIAN RESEARCH? hear it!" www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy.

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1 https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/I picture on it and telling things ndian_Tribes_of_the_United_States their family liked.  I also had signup sheets to say RENEE’S LINKS TO FOUR where your ancestors came GENEALOGY CONFERENCES from - also sheets for the "now" about things you are http://rzamor1.blogspot.com/2010/0 interested in - what school did 5/compilation-of-articles-on-four- you go to and such. I got big recent.html 15 generation pedigree charts for prizes (cheap) for those http://rzamor1.blogspot.com/2010/0 that signed the most lists. 5/granite-mountain-records-vault-  We had our primary sing our videos.html opening song.  I put a bowl of M & M's on CELEBRATE “FAMILY” each table, and while people AT A WARD ACTIVITY were waiting to go through the food line, they all grabbed We presented a family history ward some M& M's; then they had activity called "Got Family?" and we to tell something about were able to let everyone see that themselves to their table. family history can be FUN! As  I also had artifacts displayed at chairperson, I got as many on board as each table, and they had to possible to help. come up with the story behind the artifact - As people finished up dinner, we had  We had a favorite family food pot-luck dinner. each table come up and share their story and then had the  A family photo booth. real story presented. (Good  We had a huge variety of displays on various aspects of news - we had to even set up 2 family history, such as more tables - it took a while to reunion ideas, personal get through dinner - best turn histories, families, and out in years.) headstone art.  We had a short program, but in my book it was the best - A  We had primary activities - family banner, ancestor books sister in our ward wrote a and personal books (All ward song. Then I presented About Me). “Who Do You Think You Are?" - based on the new  We had items about different members of the ward printed show of finding people's up, and historical aspects of ancestry - I did this for 4 various people's ancestry. members in the ward that kept on saying, I just don't have  I even did a creative pedigree chart that showed how time, don't know where to go different people were related and am at a standstill. I had in the ward at the present each one come up, and I time. shared short highlights about their history, plus amazingly  We created and displayed a ward family tree, with each enough their ancestry ended family getting a leaf with their up tying together, and that made it even more fun.

1  We ended with a square dance. I am a cencus taker for the city of Bufflow. Our city has groan very fast in There were times I thought I couldn't resent years & now in 1865, it has pull this off, but literally I had to turn it become a hard & time consuming job to over to the Lord. Things didn't always count all the peephill. There are not many work out like I planned, but I know as that con do this werk, as it is nesessarie to we keep striving to move forward with have an ejucashun, wich a lot of pursons the greatest calling in the church ( in still do not have. Anuther atribeart my opinion) we will find ways to touch needed for this job is god spelling, for the hearts of the members of our ward meny of the pephill to be counted can and turn their hearts to their families. hardle speek inglish, let alon spel there So anyone Got Family? names.

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1 The partnership between the British you the opportunity to share what you Library and Brightsolid will enable the know with the genealogical world. Create digitization of a minimum of 4 million a Facebook Group page for a specific pages of newspapers over the first two topic, location, surname, or ancestor." years. Over the course of ten years, the Read Cyndi's ideas and click on her links agreement aims to deliver up to 40 to view popular genealogical Facebook million pages as the mass digitization pages at: process becomes progressively more efficient and as in-copyright content is Source: Cyndi's List Blog, April 16, scanned following negotiation with the 2010, Washington DC FHC Newsletter, rights holders. May 2010.

TIDBITS TO KEEP YOU BUSY NOTE: at the Susquehanna Trails Genealogy Club meeting on the FIFTH I found this great website for UK maps: Thursday in September at 7”:00 pm, http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ Mike Abramson will be demonstrating this function in person (Facebook). For copies of Genealogy News, go to REMEMBER it’s the 5th Thursday and http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pay not the 4th. ork/York2Ward/

NEW TECHNOLOGY ARTICLE FROM STGC IMPACTS RESEARCH NEWSLETTER New and surprising ways -- even Two weeks ago, there was a BIG confusing ways -- to access information Genealogy Conference in Salt Lake are changing the way people do family City. The National Genealogical history. Alan E. Mann, manager of Society had a large gathering. The LDS Genealogical Community Services, told Church took the opportunity of adding a session at BYU's Conference on about 300,000 images to the Records Computerized Family History and Search Pilot. It was also the week of the Genealogy on April 26 about ten new Computerized Genealogy Conference web services that are disrupting the held annually at BYU. This year it was normal ways of sharing information held in the Salt Palace. There was a and how some of them may impact special meeting where the Tabernacle family history research: New Web Choir sang, President Eyring, and David Services McCullough spoke. There were many Source: Washington DC FHC short videos available on the Family Newsletter, May 2010 History Library web site and others. I USING FACEBOOK FOR have included some of their links here GENEALOGY for you to view. Here's a TV news clip about the National By Cyndi Howells (Of Cyndi'sList) Genealogy Society Conference last week here is Salt Lake: In response to a reader's request, Cyndi http://www.fox13now.com/videobeta/? Howells posted nine suggestions for watchId=d99357b1-44ad-452f-a74e- using Facebook to help with genealogical bf458efafbb0 research. "Facebook is just one more way to publish information online. It gives

1 If you haven't seen it ~ the 3 short videos Archives.com as an official Advisor. As the of the Granite Mountain Records Vault Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for shown at NGS can be seen here: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/en African and African American Research at g/news-releases-stories/familysearch- Harvard University, and host of PBS's "Faces of shares-plans-to-digitize-billions-of- America", Professor Gates is a leading authority records-stored-at-granite-mountain- in the field of African American Studies. records-vault Article in Meridian Magazine about the Researching African family history can be very "Celebration of Family History". challenging. Many traditional research options http://ldsmag.com/churchupdate/100503g such as census records, recorded only limited enealogy.html details of African descendants or none at all. Nice Wrap-Up Report from the NGS Professor Gates brings a wealth of knowledge Conference in SLC by Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and passion for African Heritage. He will work http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_ge closely with Archives.com to provide the tools nealogy/2010/05/wrapup-report-from- and resources needed to learn about your the-ngs-conference-in-salt-lake-city.html family's history, and even trace your roots back Take the time and look at these videos. I will show you that YOU are not the only to Africa. one interested in this ‘hobby’. It is NOT a hobby, but a purpose for being. "African American genealogy has been under- AFRICAN HERITAGE served for many years. But thanks to new Henry Louis Gates Partners with advances in DNA sequencing and companies like Archives to Promote African Heritage Archives.com, the past has opened up like never before," says Professor Gates. "Archives.com is making family history easy and affordable for the everyday person. The site offers a rich interface and access to an abundance of records, images, and stories about the past."

In the coming months we'll be adding lots of additional resources, as well as publishing some unique African American historical collections that have never before been available online. To learn more about how Henry Louis Gates Jr and Archives.com are partnering to make African American family history research simple & affordable, visit the new African Heritage section Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Archives.com. Harvard Professor Some recent additions include: In our continuing mission to make family history Access over 1.2 billion records - simple & affordable, we are excited to announce including records from UK and that Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr has joined

1 Canada  Family History Centers, tapping the resources from the Family Millions of scanned census & vital History Library and also local images - verify family members & biographies on the shelves at details centers in the locality Easy-to-use family tree tools create a  Court house for marriage records, land records, wills and probate visual picture of your family records, tax records, court .On-Site Records Search helps your find records, divorce records, adoption records that aren't available online • records, naturalization records  Birth and death records Our Ancestor Alerts notify you when  Naturalization records – available we find new records for your ancestors for all states and territories from 1790 to the present; declarations, Click here to start your free trial today. We try Footnote free at FHC look forward to helping you learn more about  Immigration and Ship lists; Ellis Island, Olive Tree Genealogy, your roots! Google the word “Immigration” for lists of records; Ancestry.com Joe Godfrey  Military records – Google the war Product Manager, Archives.com to find records, check National Archives; draft registration for DOING FAMILY HISTORY later years, pension records, RESEARCH IN THE 18TH bounty land records  Local libraries or libraries online CENTURY for history and genealogical records A member of the Susquehanna Trails  Cemeteries – Go to Genealogy Club presented us with a http://www.archives.gov/ for the challenge the other night. He has traced national tombstone transcription his roots through the census, but now he project and see Harry Senft’s must go beyond, and he asked us, “Where cemetery records listed in this th do I go to do family history in the 18 newsletter (York County) Century and beyond in America and  Old Bible Records found in across the seas? Jack and I talked about ancestors’ homes along with this for a while, and developed a list of photos and other documents basic places to search. But we must warn  Old newspapers for obituaries in you, Harold, these are the places where the locality of the ancestor (local the grunt work begins. library or archives) and social and public news of your ancestor; see  National, state, and local archives Heritage Quest and PERSI http://www.portal.state.pa.us/port  Death records – Death al/server.pt/community/state_arch certificates, obituaries, funeral ives/2887; home records http://www.archives.gov/  Land records – found in archives  DAR and SAR Libraries or local books about a county  Mayflower Society for 1600’s  County histories – Google county  Historical societies in the history, like Storey, Henry localities where ancestors lived Wilson. History of Cambria County Pennsylvania with

1 Genealogical Memoirs. New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.  School records  Journals left by others and published online; Google ancestor’s name like this: “John Jones”~genealogy

Just a note to let you know that many people begin their family history research with just some small hints. Jack’s family had left him with a few records, among Buckeburg Castle, Germany, built in them the immigration records of his the 1300’s. Front view yellow, side view brick great-grandparents. We were able to take a handful of records to Holland, and that By this time, Jack was becoming led to a trail of hopeless addiction to proficient in doing research online. Then Dutch research for Jack. we took our second trip to Holland, and we also drove to Germany, where the Twenty-five years ago when we married, ancestor Sonneborns originated before he had no database. On our first marrying into the Dutch lines. We were trip to Holland, we came back able to go to the Bückeburg Castle in with 300 names that the small Lower Saxony, Germany, and do primary trail of 3-4 records had opened for research to find Jack’s early German us. Next we hired our friend Nell Roots. The Church has never digitized Van der Wekken Parker, a these records, so the copies are scarce, professional Dutch genealogist in and it was a real delight to work at the Utah, to do additional research. Castle and find his ancestors. She added many names to his database over the years. Jack claims his heritage as Dutch, though. Because of his ancestors immigrating to Holland and staying there for so many years, and intermarrying with the Dutch, his line changed to Dutch. At this point, Jack has over 30,000 names in his database. Most of them came from grunt work, visiting a locality, and the help of Nell. She and her husband even met us in Holland on our second trip, and we so enjoyed their company and having someone to translate for us. The purpose of this article is to encourage you, who are just beginning, to take heart if you have just a slim collection of family history. We promise that if you are diligent in desiring to find your ancestors, the Lord will open doors for you!

1 One of the biggest challenges Judicial Records in doing family history The Suffolk Files

research is trying to find Judicial Records: Naturalizations records in the 18th Century Judicial Records: Divorces

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1 mormon.org site, and the site offers other inspirational information, like CONSULTANT/PRIESTHOOD SITE General Conference talks. Newsroom keeps us updated on the Incidentally, Webinar technology is also benevolent acts we perform around use on the consultant/priesthood the world when a country is in registration site. We may view the one crisis as well as other news. titled "Helping Family History Happen" at The site has wonderful information for https://fch.ldschurch.org/WWSupport/our genealogists at the tabs at the top; ses/Consultant/Helping_Family_History_ put your cursor over “Family Happen/Player.html and the one titled History and Temples” by the "Helping Members" at Welcome sign and look at the https://fch.ldschurch.org/WWSupport/Co expanded menu for more family urses/Consultant/Helping_Members1/Pla history links. The site will also yer.html . There are principles taught in take you to familysearch.org, which those presentations that are not taught is our old but valuable family anywhere else. history website where members and the public have contributed their ancestry. Take a look at lds.org. It NEW FAMILYSEARCH BETA really has wonderful information TESTING TO BEGIN SHORTLY about the Latter-day Saints. Very soon another beta testing of new FamilySearch will begin. The purpose of the beta search is to test proposed changes to nFS and to work out any “bugs” before the implementation of the changes. "Combating Remember that nFS is evolving, and the engineers work diligently to try to Pornography" Web Site give us the best program possible. If you have an opportunity to test A new Church Web site sponsored by the changes, please take part and LDS Family Services, provide valuable feedback. combatingpornography.org, offers useful tools for individuals striving to overcome pornography addiction and provides LDS CHURCH OFFERS support information for parents, spouses, NEW WEBSITES AT and Church leaders. LDS.ORG and other inspirational information

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Often we hear of treasures coming from the dust of the past. This week, I New Employment witnessed this as I sat with a patron in Web Site Launched the Family History Center. Sandi Sechrist, who hails for the West, has been Church members can visit ldsjobs.org for a member of the Church all of her life, and she has been in the York Ward for as help finding employment, gaining more long as I can remember. She and Lynn education, or starting a small business. are the parents of 8 children, and 22 grandchildren. She works, hosts children and grandchildren in their home, and teaches Seminary; recently Sandi decided that it is now her season to trace her roots. Visit New It came as no surprise that her legacy is a Mormon.org, Create long line of pioneer Latter-day Saints, Profile and a large percentage of the temple work has been completed. Sandi’s main Get a sneak peek at the new mormon.org task will be to research auxiliary lines or and create your missionary profile—the hunt for brick wall ancestors if she wants exciting new way to share the gospel. to do temple work. Another of her tasks will be to correct some records. The first day we met in the local Family History Center, she revealed her mission: she wants to find some stories. That is, she wants to know who her ancestors are, how did they think, what did they New Youth Video: believe? We set out to learn about her No Regrets ancestors who were just names in a database. And that, we did!

Learn about a young man from California Seeing her records on new FamilySearch who had to choose between his school’s was exciting for both of us, and often she surfing team and his early-morning would express her awe by saying, “That seminary class. Watch the video “No gives me goose bumps.” Then, we Regrets” on youth.lds.org. switched over to Ancestry. Even more exciting than the pedigrees and family group sheets were the photos and sources that we found at Ancestry.com.

She knew her grandfather on the Palmer line, but she had no idea of the identity of her great-great-grandmother Ann “Elizabeth” Hodgkinson Walmsley Parker (1806-1888). Elizabeth, as she was known, lived in Lancashire, England. She was married to Thomas Walmsley, MAY WE PAUSE TO REMEMBER and because she had been ill with THOSE WHO HAVE FOUGHT SO consumption for so long, it had compromised her body, and she was

1 crippled and could not walk. As we to occupy his pulpit that afternoon. So it googled this woman’s name, we learned happened on July 23, his first Sabbath that she is a significant person in Church Day in England, Heber C. Kimball spoke history from reports about a missionary in Vauxhall Chapel, Preston, the first group that went to England in 1837 to sermon of the Restoration in a foreign open Europe for missionary work: “The land. A large congregation gathered at mission had arrived in Liverpool. They three o'clock that afternoon, perhaps had little money and no friends. For prompted partly by curiosity, but they some time they wandered up and down kept on coming. Orson Hyde followed the strange streets, watching the crowds him with a short testimony. That evening and looking for a cheap place to lodge. At John Goodson and Willard Richards length, Hyde, Richards, and [Heber C.] spoke, and the next Wednesday night Kimball found a small room belonging to Orson Hyde and Willard Richards. By a widow in Union Street, which they took this time people had begun to be for a day or two. All the time they were in convinced of the truth of the message Liverpool was spent in council and ‘in and ask for baptism. calling on the Lord for direction.’ Then it was that the Reverend James At length they said the Spirit of the Lord Fielding, his hospitality strained to the spoke to them, saying, ‘Go to Preston.’ breaking point, refused them the further They accordingly went. The place use of the chapel. From then on meetings indicated was a large manufacturing were held each night in private homes town in Lancashire, thirty-one miles until on Saturday night when it was from Liverpool. It was four o'clock, decided to baptize those who had election day, in Preston, the afternoon of requested it the following morning in the July 22, 1837. Queen Victoria had just River Ribble, which ran through Preston. ascended the throne three days before Reverend James Fielding, when he heard the landing of the missionaries, and a of this, worked himself almost into a general election had been ordered. Bands frenzy, even calling at the lodgings of his of music were playing, banners were erstwhile friends and ‘forbidding’ them flying, men, women, and children walked to baptize those from his congregation. the street, decked with ribbons denoting He was told they were of age and must their political choice. The elders watched choose for themselves.” the scene, feeling strangers indeed. At last a banner floated open as it passed Ann Elizabeth Walmsley, Sandi’s great- them, and they read in gilt letters, ‘Truth great grandmother, was one of the Will Prevail.’ That seemed to them a English women investigating the Church. prophecy of what was to come….In the In meeting with Heber C. Kimball, he meantime young Joseph Fielding went in promised her that if she would be search of his brother James, who was baptized, she would be healed from her pastor of a primitive Baptist congre- infirmity. gation in Preston. He returned with an invitation for all the elders to visit his “ At nine o'clock in the morning of the brother, who had already heard much second Sunday in England, nine persons about the church from his other brother were baptized in the River Ribble, a Joseph and two sisters, Mary and Mercy, young man by the name of George D. who had not many years before left him Watt being the first. Among the group for Canada. Upon the day after the was Ann Elizabeth Walmsley and her arrival in Preston, they all went to hear husband, Thomas. Ann Elizabeth had the Reverend James Fielding discourse been a victim of that dread malady, in his own pulpit in Vauxhall Chapel. consumption, and was wasted to a mere While the missionaries sat and prayed skeleton, but at her baptism she was that they might be given a hearing, the healed and lived to be a very old woman.” Reverend Fielding went on with his Information sermon, closing by speaking of their brethren from America and inviting them

1 http://www.centerplace.org/history/mis Elizabeth was blessed by God to join His c/soc/soc29.htm church and to pass on that legacy to her posterity. Seeds sown in righteousness Ann Elizabeth Hodgkinson Walmsley have hit upon fertile soil to raise up a [later Palmer] was the first female blessed generation. convert to be baptized in Europe; she was baptized by Heber C. Kimball on 30 July TRACES 1837. On 31 May 1938, A.A. Hart dedicated the Ann Elizabeth Wamsley http://www.familysearch.org/eng/affiliate Moument at Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho. The description says, “At the time s/index.html Go to T to find Traces. she was ill and a cripple, unable to walk. She was healed by the Power of the Traces is now available for download in Priesthood.” Her husband Thomas the App Store through iTunes.cid: Walmsley carried her down into the BB76B6A6-C36A-4574-BCB3- Ribble River, where Ann was baptized. [email protected] Thereupon, she walked out of the water and was healed. At her confirmation, the http://itunes.apple.com/app/traces-of-the- Elder rebuked her disease in the name of past/id360568220?mt=8 God to completely heal her, and within a Traces brings the hundreds of millions of week, she was able to go about her business as usual. Sadly, before the historical records available through family left for America, Ann Elizabeth’s FamilySearch to your iPhone or iPod husband Thomas Wamlsley died. touch. Search by name, event, place, date range, or family members. Examine Ann Elizabeth and her children left record details and even view the original Liverpool on the Ellen Maria on January document images in the palm of your 30, 1851, and arrived in New Orleans on hand. Share records you find with family April 6, 1851. In New Orleans, George and friends or add them to your personal chartered the steamboat, Alexander Folder for later viewing or additional Scott, which carried them to St. Louis. research. Traces is the perfect app for the Being a widow, she was remarried to on-the-go researcher or even for the Sandi’s great-great-grandfather Isaac Palmer in Nauvoo. Then another river causal user who is just interested in boat, the Robert Campbell, took them up finding traces of his or her past. the Missouri River to Kanesville (present Posted by Shanna Jones day Council Bluffs), Iowa, where they arrived on May 21, 1851. Together Isaac ARTICLE ON THE TRANSLATION and Ann Elizabeth had 3 children, one OF THE BOOK OF MORMON being Sandi’s grandfather. This talk on Joseph Smith’s translation of What a touching moment it was to share the Book of Mormon is not family with Sandi those treasures that we history - just an interesting article about unearthed for her and her family. For years I have witnessed the strength and the translation. testimony of Ann Elizabeth Walmsley which has been passed on to her great- Http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp? granddaughter; Sandi has long been hidenav=1&locale=0&sourceid=05169209df38b0 10vgnvcm1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=235 revered in our stake for her commitment 4fccf2b7db010vgnvcm1000004d82620arcrd to the Church and for the strength of her Link from Sister Cherryle Orrock testimony. Now, she has found some answers to her own identity. She has been privileged to become acquainted with this inspired woman Ann Elizabeth Immigrant Servants through records left behind. Ann Database

1 The Immigrant Servants Database is a This is not an official publication of The project designed to help Americans trace Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the European origins of their colonial ancestors. http://immigrantservants.com/ That’s All, Folks! AN IDEA FOR SUNDAY BULLETINS

Sunday Bulletin - I am the Sunday bulletin editor in my ward. I called it "Family History Tip.” I "lifted" the little logo of the person sitting by the computer from your newsletter and put it with a website and an explanation of what the website could do. Several ward members mentioned to me the help they received from knowing about these websites. The logo identified the tip, and after a time, I didn't even put "Family History Tip," just the logo and the information. Submitted by: Beth Hendricks Here is the logo.

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