CLASSES


Mesa Temple Visitors' Center Classes 
13 January 2025
Peggy's Research Log Template   It is in a Google Doc form. If you go to FILE > then DOWNLOAD, you can download it as a Word document.

27 January 2025

10 February 2025

3 March 2025
Handouts:
Super Searches Handout Just reminders of what was taught in class.
FamilySearch Online Detecting 201 Tough activities. Contact me for help or answers. I have the copyright release in my possession.
Peggy's Easy Online Detecting 101  Activities from the PowerPoint, with some extras.

17 March 2025

31 March 2025

14 April 2025

21 April 2025

12 May 2025
Wrap-up party with prizes


Spring 2024 Classes
8 February 2024
Research Series: Class 3-Source Citations
Source Citation Template
22 February 2024
Research Series: Class 4-Research Guide/Plan and Methodology Guides
7 March 2024
Research Series: Class 5-Online Creative Iterative Searches-Finding hard-to-find records on FamilySearch and Ancestry
21 March 2024
4 April 2024
Genealogical Writing Synonyms and Phrases by Julie Stoddard, used with permission


Fall 2019 Classes
Thursday 5 September 2019
1-Family Tree Tips and Tricks for Getting Started
Thursday 12 September 2019
2-The Amazing Updated FamilySearch Person Page
Thursday 19 September 2019
3-The Magic of Record Hints
Thursday 26 September 2019
4-Family Tree App
     Famous People View My Relationship FUN
Thursday 3 October 2019
5-Family History and Digital Organization and Management
Thursday 10 October 2019
NO CLASS-FALL BREAK
Thursday 17 October 2019
6-FamilySearch Memories-Free Safe Online Storage
Thursday 24 October 2019
7-From Portrait to Pixel
     Pixel to Portrait-Digitizing and Scanning Handout

The following is a list of the classes from the State of the Art Family History Series.

Fall of 2018 and the Spring of 2019
2a-Jump Start Your First 4 Generations with Ancestry Trees
2b-Finding Your First 4 Generations When There are No Ancestry Trees
3-Finding Hidden Duplicates in FamilySearch
4-Adding Your First 4 Generations to the FamilySearch Tree
5-The Magical World of Record Hints-FamilySearch
6- FamilySearch Family Tree Person Page TLC
7-Family History and Digital Management of Historical Items
8-Organizing Digitizing and Preserving Photos
9-FamilySearch Memories-With Go-Arounds for the LIVING
10-Finding Family Search Source List Images
11- FamilySearch Tree App
12-Ancestry DNA 101
13- Beginning Research from the Person Page-FS and Ancestry

Finding Families for Temple Work (Church of Jesus Christ)

14-Using Newspapers to Find BMD and Beyond
15-POWER SEARCHES in FamilySearch and Ancestry
16-FamilySearch Wiki and The FH GUIDE: BMD and Beyond
17-Finding FamilySearch Source List original IMAGES
18-FamilySearch Catalog: BMD and Beyond
19-The Wonderful World of US Land Records
20-Utah Pioneers
21-Digitizing and Scanning
22-Document Analysis
23-Hidden Messages in Gravestones-Will not be posted, contact me if you would like a copy: peggyashaz@hotmail.com



Popular posts from this blog

The 10 Handcart Utah Pioneer Companies

Image
Summary of the 10 Handcart Companies 1856 Handcart Companies 1.   Edmund Ellsworth Company - Crossed the Atlantic on the ship “Enoch Train” .   Left Iowa City on 9 June with 274 individuals. 13 died. Arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 26 September.   Traveled with the Daniel D. McArthur Company. 2.   Daniel D. McArthur Company - 117 English who crossed the Atlantic on the ship “Enoch Train” plus 104 individuals from the ship “S. Curling” .   Left Iowa City on 11 June with 221 individuals. 7 died. Arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 26 September.   Traveled with the Edmund Ellsworth Company. 3.   Edward Bunker Company - Mostly Welsh who crossed the Atlantic on the “S. Curling” .   Left Iowa City on 28 June with 320 individuals.   Less than 7 died.   Arrived in the Salt Lake Valley October 2. 4.   James G. Willie Company - Mostly English with roughly 100 Scotch and 100 Scandinavians.   Crossed the Atlantic on t...
Read more

MAY Family History Goal

Image
  For May I have updated the monthly family history goals to include QR Code handouts. The QR Code takes you to the monthly goal with explanations and links to optional fun activities. We hope this will appeal to young and old alike! This month we are celebrating Memorial Day! To see other goals with their helps go to the Consultant Resources  page. May QR Code Handout
Read more

Quick, Simple, Fun, and Yet Instructive Family History Ideas

Image
I have dreamed for years of creating a simple plan for introducing the novice to family history concepts in short fun increments. I have provided my first plan for fun, simple, quick, and yet instructive activities that will introduce both young and old to FamilySearch . The goal is to introduce them to the essentials and then let the spirit of Elijah direct their family history path. These links will take you to the PDF version and the Word version of my one-year plan.  Use it as you please.  OVERALL YEAR LONG FAMILY HISTORY PLAN-PDF OVERALL YEAR LONG FAMILY HISTORY PLAN-Word Document I will share the step-by-step instructions on the Consultant Resources Blog Page  and update the 2022 Plan as FamilySearch changes throughout the year.
Read more