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Our 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 and recording memories of family and being familiar with 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 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: Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Descendants of the Civil War, Nevada African American Genealogy Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Mayflower Descendants and Utah Pioneers
 * Ethnic Genealogical Groups: Jewish, Hispanic, European, English, Scandinavian

Preparation for a successful group experience.

 * Please plan ahead for the experience you would prefer.
 * Church of Jesus Christ Youth Church Groups should be accompanied by a member of the Bishopric or ward clerk and ward Family History Consultants.
 * Be sure each participant has a FamilySearch account and can verify they recall their username and password.
 * To recover a forgotten username or password, the participant must have access to the cell phone or email which is associated with their account.
 * For youth ages 8-13, parental assistance is required to open an account.
 * All other persons ages 13 and older must bring a personal cell phone or have access to a personal email to open a FamilySearch account.
 * In preparation, participants should go into their FamilySearch account and add their personal family history to the tree.
 * Try to add at least one or two deceased ancestors with their name at birth, dates and other family members (spouse, children, parents and siblings).
 * For help connecting new accounts to a parent account, youth should bring a print out of their parent's trees.

Choose a group experience below

 * Introduction to Indexing
 * Introduction to using FamilySearch
 * Youth mission preparation and the powerful connection of family past, present and future
 * Discovery Experience using our 55” touch screen monitors or the discovery experiences in FamilySearch.org Coming soon, check back.
 * Youth Groups ages 11-18 find names for Temple work and discover the story behind the ancestor
 * Special Experience for younger children ages 8 to 11 might be to select from computer basics, make a group video, make a scrapbook of major great events in their ancestors’ lives
 * Participate in a seminar and discussion on the doctrine of family history found in the scriptures
 * Learn how to use your cell phone to record family history memories and find sources and add them to your family history
 * Family History consultant training and review of skills needed to help others with their family history
 * Tour our historic building and hear the stories behind the building
 * Training and use of our preservation & digitizing equipment

Come with your own experience

 * Customized classes You may use our classroom for your own group presentations.  Our experienced staff can work with you and present classes on a variety of topics.