Las Vegas Nevada FSL/Group Visits

Your Group Experience
Over 100 helpful staff members are available to provide individual and group experiences. We want your group to enjoy being involved in their own family history, preserving memories of ancestors, becoming acquainted with ancestors’ lives, finding lost persons, and recording memories of family and events and indexing. We hope you come to feel the joy of connecting with family past, present and future.

Types of Groups that visit the library

 * Family Reunions, Family Home Evenings
 * Women’s organizations, Relief Society
 * Youth groups ages 11- 18 and younger ages 8 - 11,
 * Family history leadership and ward and stake consultants
 * Youth Conference, Women’s Conference, Leadership Conference
 * Organizations: Descendants of the Civil War, American Revolution, Mayflower, Pioneers,
 * Ethnic Genealogical Groups: Jewish, Hispanic, European, English, Scandanavian

Important for a Successful and Rewarding Visit

 * FamilySearch Account Login: Very Important! Each Member of the group should have a FamilySearch Login Account before coming to the Library. Please have the members of your group log into familysearch.org . CLICK on Create Account at upper right.  Prior to your visit to make sure their Username and password are working.
 * Personal Family History Information: Except for Indexing visits, please have everyone attempt to create a personal Pedigree Chart with as much family information as possible. It is best to find an ancestor who is deceased and born prior to 1940 for doing research.
 * Specific Goal or Objective to Accomplish: Each group should have an idea or goal, before they arrive, of what they would like to accomplish during the visit to our library.
 * Selecting the Group Presentation: Select from the following options. We are not able to combine presentations in a single visit and suggest that you schedule additional times for other topics of interest.

Group Visit Options:
The first option include a short presentation in one of our meeting rooms with the remainder of the time in the library.

1. Tour-Introduction to the FamilySearch Library

An overview of our facility, web site, and tools, applications, and equipment available in and from our library and premium websites the FS Library has free access to.

 

2. Finding Names for the Temple

Geared for the youth to find, reserve and print names to take to the Temple. They will have the opportunity to learn techniques for finding names even in a full tree.

3. Introduction to Family Tree A basic demonstration of the functions, features, and use of the information available in FamilySearch.org under Family Tree tab to church members to find what is currently known regarding their ancestors. This is the option for youth groups seeking to locate ancestors to take to the temple. Please read the information under Personal Family History Information above.

3.Introduction to Indexing An overview of the WHY and how of indexing and a demonstration of the indexing application for indexing in the library or at home.

4. Basic Research Learn how to use FamilySearch.org Records to find historical documents and vital records to document and source personal research. Also use Wiki to find what is available in the area of research of interest. Please read the information under Personal Family History Information above.

Please Call the Center at 382-9695 to Schedule a Visit