Hello, class members!¹
During the Timpview 7th Ward’s Family History Sunday school course I will reference some online resources. Since it wasn’t possible to find them all in one place (and was difficult to find some of them at all) I created this page. It’s for your use, and mine, and will be filling it with everything I can.
Everything here is curated by me, so please don’t treat this as a comprehensive list.
Instruction Materials
- Member’s Guide to Temple and Family History² (PDF)
- Instructor’s Guide to Temple and Family History² (PDF)
- Member’s Guide to Temple and Family History (printer-friendly version)
Official LDS Church Sponsored Links
- FamilySearch.org
- FamilySearch.org – Family Tree
- FamilySearch.org –Partner Access (Free access to other genealogy resources for FamilySearch members)
- FamilySearch.org – Privacy Policy (PLEASE READ THIS: It’s important.)
- FamilySearch’s official Twitter Feed
- FamilySearch’s official Facebook Page
- Define Your Dash (article about starting your own #52Stories personal history project)
- Write a Personal History (FamilySearch wiki article)
- Video—Glad Tidings: The History of Baptisms for the Dead (0:06:55)
- Video—One Son or Daughter at a Time (0:03:17)
RootsTech 2017 Handouts
Curated by my sister Alyson
- Full .zip file
- Getting Started in FamilySearch
- Success Tips for Using FamilySearch
- FamilySearch on the Fly
- Fixing Family Problems in FamilySearch
- Protecting Your Files Over Time
- Attaching Records in FS Family Trees
- Helping Others Gather Their Family
- Hands-On Help With Family Trees
- Nordic Records in Family Search
- FamilySearch Past, Present, and Future
Unofficial Links Loosely Curated by Howard³
- American Ancestors (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Family Search partner)
- Ancestry.com (founded by BYU grads, for-profit company, Family Search partner)
- FindMyPast.com (Family Search partner)
- Geneanet.org (English page, French resources, Family Search partner)
- MyHeritage.com (Family Search partner)
- Document preservation tips (ancestry.com)
- Kinpoint Family Tree App (Free app, analyzes tree and highlights the missing bits)
- “No. I’m Fine.” Creative non-fiction example by Howard Tayler
- PFC of ’18, the Great War memoir of Howard Tayler, Sr., written in 1940
- Hardcore History podcast (podcast, Dan Carlin)
- Stuff you Missed in History Class (podcast, Tracy Wilson & Holly Frey)
- Myth Hunters on Netflix (pop-history documentary series, link requires you to be logged into NetFlix)
Would you like to suggest a link? Say something in class! Or pass Howard a note in class. Or email Howard, if you already have his email address, which is not something he releases to the public on pages like this.
FOOTNOTES, because they make me seem scholarly
¹ If you’re not in Howard Tayler’s family history class on Sundays, the links above are completely without context. The class is an in-real-life event, held in a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Howard is the unpaid (and untrained, inexperienced) instructor.
² The official LDS.org online links to these manuals have gone stale, and return “file not found” pages. I’ve hunted down the PDFs and hosted them here so that we do not lose them.
³ These are materials that I enjoy, and that I have learned from. They’re not LDS Church publications (obviously) and do not necessarily reflect my own beliefs (less obviously.)