Thursday, August 21, 2014

         This afternoon I substituted exercise time for family history time and tried to apply what Pres. Cazier showed us last week.  Glade and I were successful in getting subscriptions to Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, and FindMyPast.com by emailing from Family Search and requesting them.  However, when I sat down to “find an ancestor” to research, I couldn’t navigate the system even with the notes we were given.  So, since the Cazier’s door was open (their apartment is across the hall from ours) I went there for help.  

It was a good session, but everything is still new to me and my thought processes aren’t trained yet in knowing just what to look for and how to recognize what’s in front of me; so I still have a long way to go.  But I took my laptop so the lesson was hands-on.  

We were successful, though, in finding—on the lateral lines like a cousin probably) the wife of a man, her name and birthday, her parents—which I won’t need since they aren’t relatives—and this couple's marriage date.  I learned how to move resources from online records to this man’s page in my family history and have reserved their names so I can do all of the ordinances for her in the temple and then have them sealed to each other.  His ordinance work has all been done.  All I have to do is hit “print” and the information will be in my hand to take to the temple just across the street where they will print out the cards for me.  It was quite rewarding, but I’m not sure I can do it again without help.  It will require more lessons I’m sure. 

The Caziers leave on August 30, so I told him I may need a lesson every day until they leave.   He has done thousands of names for his own family and has helped other missionaries by finding hundreds of names for them. 

Love and prayers to everyone!