Cheyenne Wyoming Family History Center/Class Descriptions

Class Descriptions for Current Training Schedule
Family Tree 

No previous experience with new Family History of Family Tree is required. Class length: 4 classes, one per week for 4 weeks. Week 1: Introduction: Navigation, adding ancestors, overview. Week 2: Scanning and attaching photos, stories &amp; documents. Week 3: Finding and attaching sources. Class length: 3 classes

My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together Booklet

The My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together booket is an engaging way to capture and preserve your family story. We'll help you record familly information including adding photos, names, dates and precious family stories. We will teach you how to use an online version if you wish. We will also teach you to use the Helper function to help others transfer their information. This is particularly valuable if you are a Ward family history consultant.

Ancestral Quest Why I Prefer AQ to Roots Magic or Legacy The importance of having a program that you can use to verify Family Tree. It is most like PAF. If you are familiar with PAF you will LOVE AQ.

Family Tree - Merging Duplicates

This class will teach you how to merge duplicate information in FamilySearch.org.

Find My Cousing

This class will focus on decendency research and how to find children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of ancestors to expand the reach of preparing names for submission to the temple.

Class Descriptions for Other Classes that can be Offered
Ancestry.com for Eveyone Did you know that ancestry.com will soon be available to church members on their home computers? For now it is free at our Family History Center? We will introduce some good search strategies for getting the most out of this website and look at some of the valuable record collections it contains. Both beginners and seasoned researchers will learn something new. Class length: one class

Beginning Research and Using the Family History Center Portal Census record or birth certificate? Immigration records or naturalization papers? Ready to start some basic research to find new information and verify existing data on your ancestors? We will give you a process to follow and teach some tools that will help you in your search. We will also introduce you to some great research websites. Class length: 3 classes, one per week for 3 weeks.

Family History: It's a Family Affair, Creative Ways to Involve your Children and Grandchildren

Can't find the time or the energy to add family history to your family's busy schedule or don't know how to get started? In this class you'll learn how to do these things and more, including research, creating family trees/heirlooms, taking road trips and making family history gifts. From the youngest member of the family to mom, dad and the grandparents, everyone will enjoy making family history a family affair. Class length: one class

FamilySearch Indexing Explains what the FamilySearch Indexing project is working to accomplish and how we can all help in this great effort. Perhaps the easiest, most relaxing family history work available today! You will actually sign up and index your first batch in class. If you don't have an LDS account login please call Mary Ann Jenkins before class for help (801-473-3600). It is important that you have this login account before class. YM/YW welcome! Class length: one class

Find My Past

Now available free in our homes, United Kingdom, US, Canada, New Zealand and Austrailia records back to 875 AD.

Getting Organized – Managing the Chaos! Wondering how to file the abundance of certificates, family group sheets, and photos that accumulate while searching for our ancestors? Come and learn a great method for taming the chaos, both for paper and electronic documents. We will also cover organizing your FamilySearch SourceBox. Class length: one class.

 RootsMagic Intro RootsMagic is computer software that can help you organize and work with your genealogy information. It makes family history easy. It is certified to share data with the FamilySearch Family Tree. We will introduce you to the software and show you how to modify your data and share it with Family Tree. Class Length: 2 classes, one per week for 2 weeks

Start The Right Way: Don't Backtrack

The basics of Family History will be taught: Choosing a personal database; Using a flash drive; Using a Snc toy; Setting up computer files; Attaching sources to your information. Come learn about the new technologies. Hands on help will be available. Class length: one class

Tour of FamilySearch An introduction to all of the tools and collections included on FamilySearch.org. We will introduce you to the record collections, the wiki and the online research courses in the Learning Center, just to name a few! Class length: one class