FamilySearch handouts: Historical Collections Wiki Project

This is the seventh in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content.

This flyer was at RootsTech 2014 as I recall. It is a little unique because it talks about a lesser known volunteer opportunity. FamilySearch uses volunteers to do a lot of the work of keeping such a big organization going. They do so much to make records available for us to research.

This FamilySearch Historical Records division has a project on the FamilySearch Wiki where they create and maintain pages about every online collection that FamilySearch has. These pages are where you go if you ever click the Learn More link for a collection you are searching on FamilySearch. Some of these pages are wonderfully helpful because of the volunteers. Every collection has quirks and needs special research techniques.

What do you think?

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FamilySearch handouts (LDS): Change a Life--Change Your Life

This is the sixth in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content. This pamphlet makes some references to doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a spiritual emphasis on knowing one's ancestors.

This pamphlet is similar to the fifth pamphlet in my short series of posts. It seems geared toward the LDS Family History Department. I still found it encouraging to see the quality of the materials and the overarching goal.

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FamilySearch handouts (LDS): Family History Progress Update

This is the fifth in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content. This pamphlet makes some references to doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a spiritual emphasis on knowing one's ancestors.

I found this pamphlet on a table at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is very LDS in nature, focusing on motivating the church's Family History Department to take a new approach to helping church members have family history experiences. I'm glad to see such good quality work going into reaching out to more people to help them with their family history. 

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FamilySearch handouts (LDS): Family History for Youth

This is the fourth in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content. This pamphlet makes some references to doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a spiritual emphasis on knowing one's ancestors.

 FamilySearch has been emphasizing family history for youth for the past few years, and some months ago I came across this pamphlet about that.

How do you feel about these efforts to include the youth in family history? I wish that Indexing was around when I was much younger, and I think I might not have wasted as much time playing video games if I understood that there was something a billion times better that I could do at home.

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FamilySearch handouts: Partner Services

This is the third in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content.

This is a flyer I picked up at RootsTech 2014 that highlights FamilySearch partner services. It is good to see their collaboration efforts growing. I am a believer when it comes to collaboration among people or major organizations to reach better outcomes for everyone.

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FamilySearch handouts: A Solutions Story from Kodak Alaris

This is the second in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content.

"A Solutions Story from Kodak Alaris" is a flyer about a new high-speed photograph scanner available for use at most large FamilySearch Centers and the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. I used this scanner myself, and I am very impressed with the ability it has to delicately scan stacks of photos at high speeds... very impressed.

A scanning project that could take all day can not be done in a few minutes. A project that would take days, weeks, or months, may be finished in one day now. Bring your pictures to one of the FamilySearch centers that has one of these and save your priceless photos before a natural disaster destroys the only copy in existence.

What do you think?

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FamilySearch handouts: Let's Put the World's Historic Records Online...

This is the first in a short series of posts that will highlight some of FamilySearch's pamphlets, flyers, and handouts.

Disclaimer: I do not have any legal affiliation with FamilySearch, and believe it is okay to publish these because the flyers are available to the public at no cost. I am simply bringing them to the attention of my blog readership, for their interesting content.

Let's Put the World's Historic Records Online... is a pamphlet I picked up at RootsTech 2014. This shows some remarkable predictions about how soon we might get the world's records online.

Although some say the theme of RootsTech 2014 was obituaries, sharing, or technology, I think the theme was really "collaboration, the key to success." What do you think?

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