Engaging Youth in Family History
Welcome! FamilySearch inspires youth worldwide to make connections with their family across multiple generations and to help discover more about themselves. FamilySearch is a free service provided to everyone regardless of tradition, culture, or religious affiliation. Discover simple yet engaging activities and inspiring ways to record your own history, right from your smartphone.
The Importance of Family History Work
President Russell M. Nelson shared with the youth, "My beloved younger brothers and sisters, you are among the best the Lord has ever sent to this world. You have the capacity to be smarter and wiser and have more impact on the world than any previous generation! Now, we would like to talk with you about the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, and the greatest work on earth. And we want to invite you to be part of it!" - Hope of Israel, Worldwide Youth Devotional, June 2018
Read the rest of Hope of Israel here.
Getting Started with FamilySearch
Create a free FamilySearch account, and explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees and genealogy records and resources.
Edit your FamilySearch profile to customize how you appear to other FamilySearch users, what should be publicly visible, and what should be kept private.
Add a profile picture, record your experiences, and add facts about your life
FamilySearch offers a variety of ways to learn more about your family story. To begin, choose an activity below that looks interesting.
Family History Apps and More
Together by FamilySearch is specifically designed to strengthen your family past, present and future. Strengthen family ties with Together by FamilySearch.
The FamilySearch Family Tree app is an easy and convenient tool for learning about your family and doing genealogy.
The Get Involved app is a new volunteer experience designed to make volunteer opportunities more accessible to users of FamilySearch, as well as members of the public.
Snap some photos at the upcoming graduation or other milestone, and upload them to the tree to make them part of your family’s shared experiences forever.
Discover family history videos for youth and experience how exciting ideas can add to the joy of family life.
Family History Activities for Youth
Help people lost to history get found by their families. The activities below make it possible to find people from the past.
How do you get the teens and young adults interested in family history?
Discovering one's family heritage can be a fantastic, fun-filled journey made together over time. The following links, charts and exercises can make this journey even more interesting!
In-Home and online activities designed for the whole family. It’s family history in a whole new way!
Choose 5 activities in the Discover, Share, and Cherish sections, completing 15 activities by the end of summer.
This online summer program will teach you and your family how family history can be fun, informative, and rewarding.
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