Table of contents:

Barker, Thomas – 8 children died in their 1st year of age. 2

Bettenga, John W – Multiple Sclerosis for 24 years. 2

Bocker, John and Mary – 6 stillborn children. 2

Bruce, James L & wife Mable – 9 of 14 children died under the age of 3. 2

Bruce, James (Father) – Two small children died of whooping cough twelve hours apart 3

Dempsey, Harry LeRoy – Lived 9 days. 3

Denney, LaMar – Killed in train-car collision while on mission in Australia. 3

Denney, Mary Ann & Albert – Two children died after arriving at Salt Lake from England. 3

Despain, Vasco and Harriett. Three children died young (ages 3, 4, 5) 3

Downs, Ezekiel – Bodyguard; abandoned family and left LDS church because God should have saved Joseph Smith. 4

Fluckiger, Mary Jane – Died in a car accident at age 16. 4

Garff, Maxine Rice – Husband died six months after marriage; mission surgery. 4

Geerdes, Tena Beving – Dies at age 30, leaving a 2 year old and a 4 day old. 4

Hagermann, Ruth, Lucille and Verlon – Three children die of diphtheria, ages 8, 4, and 3. 4

Hall, Kenneth J – Died in oil rid accident, survived by wife and 8 children. 5

Hardcastle children – Die young – four children die young. 5

Hoch, Leon – 17 year old wrestler died during HS wrestling match. 5

Ivins, Rachel Ridgeway – Disowned. 5

Jensen, Deane and Jacob – Twins die at age 3, three days apart 6

Jensen, Orven – Victim dies from hit and run driver while walking on highway from dance. 6

Johns, Tressa LuDene – 8th grader killed in car accident after Young Womens activity. 6

Johnson, Robert S – 16 year old dies in hunting accident 6

Johnson, Rollin – Died at age 34 of injuries from accident on horse. 6

Keetch, Farrell Q – Killed accidently by a rifle shot 7

Larson, Jean & Lavern & Rex – Three children died at birth. 7

McCann, Thomas – 5 year old daughter dies of malnutrition. 7

Oler, Linda & Chris (12), Jeff (8) and Tonya (5) – Mother and three children die in suicide, following her husband’s suicide a year earlier. 7

Orr, Edna & Charles – 5 children die under the age of 1 week. 8

Pugmire, Cora and Ora – Died just four months after birth. 8

Pugmire, George and wife Jane – 5 children died under age of six. 8

Pugmire, Jonathan & wife Annie – 3 children die within a day of each other. 8

Pugmire, Jonathan Jr – Had 5 children who all died in their youth. 8

Pugmire, Jonathan Sr – Jailed for 6 weeks for drowning a convert 8

Pugmire, Joseph H – We lived on roots for 6 months, no bread to eat for 2 months. 9

Pugmire, Justin & Hannah – Home burned down in October so all things stored for winter were lost 9

Pugmire, Olive Eleanor – Three young children die within two days. 9

Pugmire, Robert and Mary – 7 of 8 children died young, buried at Eureka Cemetery. 9

Pugmire, Sarah Jane – Terribly impoverished family with their 13 children. 10

Schenck, Mary – When she died at age 34, she had lost 6 of her 10 children. 10

Shipley, Dean and Gerald – Two early deaths for the Shipleys. 10

Smidt, Jacob – Marched in a death march in 1815 to Paris as Naopleon was defeated at Waterloo. 10

Smith, Absalom and Amy – Home burned to the ground while they were held down by mobs. 10

Smith, Steven and Stanley – Twins die in two days. 10

Wamsley, Samuel – Only 1 of 11 children alive when Samuel passed away in 1888. 11

Warden, Brian T – Many early deaths in family – mother 44, 1st wife 24, 2nd wife 45, Brian himself 41. 11

Willis, Evvian and Ruth – Only one of six children live to adulthood. 11

Wood, Martha – Three-Year Old Girl Dies After Short Illness. 11

Barker, Thomas – 8 children died in their 1st year of age

            Thomas Barker and Elizabeth Thompson had 17 children. Eight of them died in their 1st year, and two more died at ages 6 and 23. The names of those who died early are Eliza (1825-1825), Abraham (1826-1826), Abraham (1827-1827), Hannah (1827-1827), Daniel (1828-1828), Elizabeth (1828-1828), Daniel (1830-1830), Elizabeth (1830-1830), Thomas (1834-1840) and Thomas (1837-1860)

            (Ref: Thomas Barker (1806) familysearch ID lczjz1v and Elizabeth Thompson (1807) familysearch ID kwjtm6w)

Bettenga, John W – Multiple Sclerosis for 24 years

            John was afflicted with multiple sclerosis at age 19 and suffered with it for 24 years. His obituary said “He was born in Grundy County Nov 23, 1915, and grew to manhood there. During the years that he had been confined to his home, he has borne his affliction quietly and patiently.

            (Ref: John W Bettenga – (1915-1959) was the son of William Bettenga -familysearch ID ldxhtdr and Bertha Brower – familysearh ID lw54mkf).

Bocker, John and Mary – 6 stillborn children

            John W Bocker and his wife, Mary Muntinga had 7 children, 6 of whom were stillborn.

(1930, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1947)

            The Bockers have a daughter Betty who was born in 1928 and perhaps other children.       (Ref: parents are John Walter Bocker (1902-1980) familysearch ID L52S-WCM) and Mary Muntinga (1909-1979; familysearch ID lvxpf3x)

Bruce, James L & wife Mable – 9 of 14 children died under the age of 3

            Children who died young: Mary (1913-1913), Baby Boy (1915-1915), Baby Girl (1916-1916), Louise (1917-1919), Elda (1918-1919), James (1919-1919), Baby (1920-1920), Carol (1927-1929), Leroy (1929-1929)

            Children who lived a full life: Verna (1914-1998), Dean (1922-2010), Mable (1924-1987), James (1925-1966), Donna (1932-2011)

            (Ref: James Lawrence Bruce (1887-1964; familysearch ID kw8q4d1 & wife Mable Jane Crook (1893-1962; familysearch ID kw8q46m)

Bruce, James (Father) – Two small children died of whooping cough twelve hours apart

            Two small children of Mr and Mrs James L Bruce of Smoot victims of the whooping cough died twelve hours apart. Whooping cough was the cause of the death. The one, two years old, died Wednesday afternoon and the months old baby yesterday morning. Funeral services will be held at the home. The entire community is in sympathy with Mr and Mrs Bruce who have had the misfortune to bury two other children.

            (Ref: James Lawrence Bruce (1887-1964; familysearch ID kw8q4d1 & wife Mable Jane Crook (1893-1962; familysearch ID kw8q46m); Star Valley Independent Newspaper, 9 May 1919)

Dempsey, Harry LeRoy – Lived 9 days

            Tombstone for Harry reads, “Our Darling, Harry LeRoy Dempsey; Sept 12, 1946 – Sept 21, 1946.

            (Ref: Harry’s parents were Leonard Dempsey 1923-19910- familysearch ID lc5fkts and Betty Baughn 1923-1991- familysearch ID l872fy1)

Denney, LaMar – Killed in train-car collision while on mission in Australia

            He was called on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sains to Australia. LaMar left in June 1961. On May 13, 1962, Mother’s Day, the family got word that he and his companion Bryan Jonson of Salt lake city were killed in a train car accident in Beaufort, Australia. His funeral was May 21st 1962 one year to the day from his missionary farewell. Elder Mark E Peterson of the Quorum of the Twelve spoke at his funeral and spoke to the famiy in private to help them Bruce R McConkie was his Mission President. Henry D Moyle of the First Presidency also visited them. His family missed him but knew that he was doing the will of God when he died and that it must have been God’s work that called him to the other side of the veil.

            (Ref: LaMar Denney (1941-1962), son of Joseph Boyd Denney – familysearch ID kwct7t7 and Vivian Reynolds – familysearch ID kwct7tw, findagrave memorial)

Denney, Mary Ann & Albert – Two children died after arriving at Salt Lake from England

            Two children died after sailing from Liverpool and arriving in Salt Lake City. Mary Ann, age 6 and her brother Albert, age 3 died within a month of each other. They are the children of Jabez and Ellen (Ward) Denney.
            Jabez, Ellen, Nellie and Mary Ann were among the last L.D.S. company to sail from Liverpool, England on Saturday, November 1, 1884, on board the S. S. Arizona. They arrived at New York on November 11th, and in Salt Lake City November 19th. Mary Ann died from the Croup and Diphtheria. Her younger brother Albert died the following month, January 20, 1891, with Diphtheria which he had for three days. They were buried together at the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

            (Ref: parents Jabez Denney (1854-1936) familysearch ID kwjwhc6 and wife Ellen Ward (1858-1893) familysearch ID lhfgt2r)

Despain, Vasco and Harriett. Three children died young (ages 3, 4, 5)

            The Despains had three children die young. Carol died at age 3, Judy at age 4 and Ronald at age 5.

            (Ref: Vasco Despain (1917-1971) familysearch ID kwjyv74 and Harriett Whittier (1918-1971) familysearch ID 2w2ddy3 were married in 1941)

Table of contents:

Chronological family history events from 1831-2022. 1

“Firsts” ordinance activites: 5

Temple ordinance events in the restoration: 6

Other temples to be built (ground dedicated) during the Restoration period: 7

Modern-day Temples and specific ordinances performed in them.. 8

Chronological family history events from 1831-2022

1831– Members promised to be endowed with power from on high.

1831 -A first endowment:  Men ordained to the High Priesthood for the first time (Cannon and Cook, 6-7), which ordination “consisted [of] the endowment–it being a new order–and bestowed authority” (Wikipedia)

1831 to 1839 – other temple spots: Designation of spot for Independence Temple (dedicated cornerstone Aug 3, 1831); Far West Temple (cornerstone 1838 & 1839); and Adam-ondi-Ahman Temple lot (public square dedicated 1838)

1832 – Newel K Whitney Store (Kirtland, Ohio)- Washings and anointings as part of the School of the Prophets

1832 – Commanded to build a temple (Kirtland)

1836 – Dedication of Kirtland Temple. No ordinances were revealed yet. — primarily a place of meetings of the saints and heavenly visits.  Note: Living ordinances: Sacrament, washings of feet.  Preparatory purifying and washings (in homes) then anointings with consecrated oil and blessings sealed with uplifted hands in the Temple.   No ordinances for the dead.  There were no provisions for the sacred ceremonies that were yet to be revealed.  The building at Kirtland was abandoned by the saints and is now used by a religious group that has no activity in temple work.

1840 – the doctrine of salvation of the dead was fully revealed that the saints could perform ordinances for their dead kindred (Joseph Fielding Smith, JFieldS14); first mentioned when Joseph Smith preached the funeral sermon of Seymour Brunson (Joseph Smith, JS50)

1840 – First baptisms for the dead – Mississippi River (only for your own family members). Joseph Smith and others were baptized in the Mississippi River for their dead. The baptisms had to be redone since there was no recorder. (Wilford Woodruff, WW11)

1841 – Nov. 21, 1841 — First baptisms for the dead performed in the Nauvoo Temple. Baptisms for the dead ceased outside the temple. (Joseph Fielding Smith, JFieldS14)

1842 – May 4, 1842 – First live endowments performed in the upper room of the Red Brick Store by Joseph Smith. First living endowments, first living marriage sealings.

1844 – Joseph and Hyrum Smith murdered

1845 – Nauvoo Temple: First live Endowments in a temple: Dec. 1845 -The first endowments are performed in the attic of the otherwise unfinished temple. Some baptism for the dead performed. Primarily a place of ordinances for the living:  Washings, anointings, Endowments, Celestial marriages and Sealing of living children to parents

1845 – Dec 1845 thru March 1846 massive temple activity- During the short, eight-week period of the temple’s operation, some 5,634 Saints received their temple endowments and 2,000 couples were sealed.)

1846 – Feb. 8, 1846 – Dedication of Nauvoo Temple:  Brigham Young held an informal dedication of the Nauvoo Temple — the first of three total dedications — of the temple 

1846 – First live sealing to living parents and sealing to living spouse

1846 – May 1-3, 1846 — Public dedication ceremony of the Nauvoo Temple, with dedicatory prayer offered by Orson Hyde.

1846 – Sep 1846 Church driven out of Nauvoo, temple abandoned, later burned.

1847 Saints arrive in Salt Lake Valley

Between 1847-1855 some live endowments – Ensign Peak (North edge of Salt Lake valley) Endowments were first given on Ensign peak. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 2, pp. 231-257. from McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine, p. 780)

1855 Endowment House (1855-1889) First sealings of couples for the dead.  Baptisms for the dead. Washings, Anointings and Endowments for the living, prayer circles, outgoing missionaries received instruction.  54,000 received their endowments.

1877 – Jan 9, 1877 St George Temple dedicated (first in Utah)

– Baptisms for the dead; Sealing of couples for the dead;

1877 – First endowments for the dead (1877)

1877 – all vicarious ordinances expanded to include people not in your own family – members could help each other (1877).  Living ordinances:  washings, anointing, endowments, celestial marriage, sealing of living children to parents.

1877 – Women sealed to their own spouse, rather than to a prominent church leader (the law of adoption/seal to church leaders was changed by revelation to the sealing to one’s own spouse)

1884, 1888, 1893 – dedication of Logan, Manti, Salt Lake Temples in Utah

1919, 1923, 1927 – Dedication of Hawaiian, Alberta and Mesa Temples

1927 – TIB endowment card file initiated: an alphabetical card file was instituted to index all endowments performed (1842-1970) . The index was maintained through 1969. It was called the Temple Records Index Bureau (TIB) (and was rolled into FamilySearch.org.) (Russell M. Nelson, RMN3)

1938 – Church began microfilming genealogical records; moved to Granite Vault in 1963; began digitizing 1998

1965 – the three-generation program: the Priesthood Genealogy Committee announced the three-generation program. Each family in the Church was asked to prepare documented family group record forms for the first three generations and submit them to the church.

1969 – GIANT recording endowments: new endowments were recorded in the first major computer system, identified by the acronym GIANT. It was used for more than two decades. (Russell M. Nelson, RMN3)

1969 – Creation of the IGI (International Genealogical Index) which was compiled from several sources (indexed records, ancestral files, temple names) to help track temple ordinances; first published in 1973; Initially available on microfiche (1975-34 million names), then compact discs (1988- 147 million names, then 1993 CD-Rom – 200 million names – sent to wards; searchable only by country), then 1999 on the internet – 284 million names which became FamilySearch.org, now with over 5.4 billion searchable names (2016).

1972 – Four Generation program: The three-generation program was expanded to a four-generation program. It was later rolled into FamilySearch.org

1973 – Remain in your own country: President Kimball announced that all members should remain in their own countries and build up Zion there. (prior to that, many new members migrated to Utah; Elder McConkie, Conference Report Apr 1973; Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, pp 438-40)

1973 — Temple Ready: Temple names were gathered from the ancestral file by disks and sent to the wards, Called Temple Ready disks

1979 – Ancestral File: the church began accepting paper submissions for the Ancestral File which replaced the four-generation program. It was discontinued in 2003 and grew to 40 million names. It was rolled into FamilySearch.org.

1990 – clear temple names in the ward, no longer have to send them to church headquarters (Richard G. Scott, RGS2)

1994 – Personal Ancestral File (PAF) software released for individual databases; discontinued 2015; replaced by FamilySearch.org which is a collaborative family tree database

1998 – smaller temples – President Hinckley announced in General Conference the construction of 30 smaller temples (Gordon B. Hinckley, GBH20)

1999 – LDS church website initiated; 2001 started a 2^nd website; 2005 familysearch.org began its beta testing; 2009 new.familysearch.org was made; 2013 family tree added to website; 2014 partnerships with major genealogical database companies; 2017 discontinued distributing microfilm to family history centers;

2002 First interactive software programs (FamilyInsight) that could compare temple ready disks (sent to wards) to an individuals’ personal database comparing temple ordinances done and those ready for submission to the temple.

2016 Members are providing all the names for temple work; no longer necessary to rely on extracted names. (Quentin L. Cook, QLC5)

2018 – May 2018 FamilySearch.org added and digitized their 2 Billionth record. It is a collaborative family tree (over 1 billion names) and contains over 5.4 billion searchable names. (Wikipedia)

2021 – Rootstech was held virtually throughout the world and enjoyed one million attendees learning about family history. Participants from over 235 countries and territories registered for the three day event which held more than 1,500 sessions.

2022 – There are 1.5 billion individuals in the familysearch.com collaborative family tree, making it the largest family tree in the world. Familysearch.org has 8 billion searchable records.

“Firsts” ordinance activites:

anciently

-Live baptism – Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

-Live sealing husband to wife – Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p118)

First live baptism– 1829 Susquehanna River- Oliver Cowdery

First baptism for the dead – 1840- Mississippi river

First baptism for the dead in a font – 1845 – Nauvoo Temple

First baptism for the dead of someone other than your own family members – 1877- St. George Temple

First washing and anointings – 1832 – Kirtland (Whitney Store)

First preliminary live endowment– 1831- Kirtland (ordination to the High Priesthood was referred to as an “endowment”)

First live partial endowment – 1836 – Kirtland Temple

First live full endowment – 1842 – Nauvoo (Joseph Smith office/Red Brick Store)

First live endowment in a temple – 1845- Nauvoo Temple

First live endowment after arrival at the Salt Lake Valley – _____ – Ensign Peak

First live endowments in a building after arrival at Salt Lake – 1855 – Endowment House

First endowment for the dead – 1877 – St. George Temple

First endowment for the dead for someone other than your own family members – 1877- St. George Temple

First live sealing of spouses – 1842 – Nauvoo (Joseph Smith office/Red Brick Store)

First sealing of spouses for the dead – 1855 – Salt Lake Endowment House

First sealing of spouses for the dead of someone other than your own family members- 1877 – St. George Temple

First live sealing of children to parents – 1845 – Nauvoo Temple

First sealing of children to parents for the dead – 1877 – St. George Temple

First sealing of children to parents for the dead of someone other than your own family members – 1877 – St. George Temple

After 1877 (the first temple built in Utah, the St. George Temple), all ordinances for both the living and the dead (both for your own family members and assisting others with their family members) were performed in all subsequent temples.

(for the dead) –

note: no work for the dead was performed prior to the resurrection of Christ

 Temple ordinance events in the restoration:

     (Kirtland Temple dedicated 1836:  keys restored and a partial endowment given – D&C 110)

     Baptism for the Dead, Doctrine first taught in August 1840, and during the following month the ordinance was first performed in the Mississippi River.

     Sealing of living couples began April 5, 1841.

     Endowments for the living were first given in Joseph Smith’s private office in Nauvoo on May 4, 1842.

     (Nauvoo Temple dedicated _____)

     Sealing of living children to parents began in the Nauvoo Temple on January 25, 1846.

Endowments, for instance, following the latter-day exodus, were first given on Ensign peak. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 2, pp. 231-257. from McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine, p. 780)

     Sealing of couples for the dead was first recorded in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City in 1855.

     Endowment House:  Baptisms and marriage sealings for the dead; washings, anointings, endowments for the living.  Could not seal children to parents without a temple. (Brigham Young,  Discourse delivered at Franklin, Idaho, September 1, 1873; J. D., Vol. 16:185-7)

     Endowments for the dead were inaugurated in the St. George Temple on January 11, 1877.

     Sealings of children to parents were resumed for the living and inaugurated for the dead in the St. George Temple on March 27, 1877.

     Adoptions refer to children being sealed to other than their natural parents. Since 1963 these have been reported with regular sealings of children to parents.

Other temples to be built (ground dedicated) during the Restoration period:

– Independence, Jackson Co., Missouri – ground dedicated ______.  In July, 1831, the Lord designated the spot for the temple in Independence Co., Missouri. (D&C 57:3)

          Ten Tribes to receive their endowments from the Children of Ephraim in Zion – ( Wilford Woodruff, Discourse delivered in Salt Lake City, February 22, 1857; J. D., Vol. 4:231-2)

– Far West Temple – cornerstone laid July 4, 1838 and relaid April 26, 1839 (Articles of Faith, p 155)

– Adam-ondi-ahman – Temple lot dedicated by Brigham Young (Life of Heber C. Kimball, by Orson F. Whitney, pp. 221-2)

Outside the western hemisphere:

– Temple at Jerusalem to be rebuilt prior to the Second Coming of Christ

Modern-day Temples and specific ordinances performed in them

– 1831- Members promised to be endowed with power from on high. 

– 1831 -A first endowment:   Men ordained to the High Priesthood for the first time (Cannon and Cook, 6-7), which ordination “consisted [of] the endowment–it being a new order–and bestowed authority” (Wikipedia)

– 1832 – Whitney Store- Washings and anointings as part of the School of the Prophets

– 1832 – Commanded to build a temple

– 1836 – Kirkland Temple  – primarily a place of meetings of the saints and heavenly visits. 

     Living ordinances: Sacrament, washings of feet.  Preparatory purifying and washings (in homes) then anointings with consecrated oil and blessings sealed with uplifted hands in the Temple.   No ordinances for the dead.  There were no provisions for the sacred ceremonies that were yet to be revealed.  The building at Kirtland was abandoned by the saints and is now used by a religious group that has no activity in temple work.

–  1840 – Mississippi River – First baptisms for the dead (only your own family members).

–  1842-1844 – Joseph Smith upper room above the red brick store – Nauvoo. First living endowments, first living marriage sealings.

–  1845 – Nauvoo Temple (1845-, burned down)- Some baptism for the dead performed. Primarily a place of ordinances for the living:  Washings, anointings, Endowments, Celestial marriages and Sealing of living children to parents.  From Dec. 1845, during the next 8 weeks, 5,500 persons received their endowments prior to the exodus.  The Temple at Nauvoo was abandoned by the saints and eventually destroyed through malicious incendiarism. 

–  1845-1847 En route to Salt Lake ???????????

– Ensign Peak (North edge of Salt Lake valley) Endowments, for instance, following the latter-day exodus, were first given on Ensign peak. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 2, pp. 231-257. from McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine, p. 780)

– 1855 Endowment House (1855-1889) First sealings of couples for the dead.  Baptisms for the dead. Washings, Anointings and Endowments for the living, prayer circles, outgoing missionaries received instruction.  54,000 received their endowments.

– 1877 St. George Temple – Baptisms for the dead; Sealing of couples for the dead; First endowments for the dead (1877); all vicarious ordinances expanded to include people not in your own family – members could help each other (1877).  Living ordinances:  washings, anointing, endowments, celestial marriage, sealing of living children to parents.

– 1884 Logan – All ordinances for the living and dead

– 1988 Manti – All ordinances for the living and dead

– 1893 Salt Lake – All ordinances for living and dead

 … Hawaiian (1919), Alberta (1923) and Mesa (1927), etc

CAPÍTULO 1: En el principio

1. ¿Cuáles eran los nombres completos de sus padres y abuelos, fechas de nacimiento, lugares de nacimiento?

2. ¿Cuáles fueron las ocupaciones de sus padres?

3. ¿Cuántos niños había en su familia? ¿Dónde estabas en la alineación?

4. En términos generales, ¿cómo fue tu infancia?

5. ¿Cuáles son las historias que recuerdas con más claridad sobre tu infancia?

6. ¿Hay alguna lección particularmente feliz, divertida, triste o instructiva que haya aprendido durante su crecimiento?

CAPÍTULO 2: En su vecindario

1. ¿Cómo fue el lugar donde creciste?

2. Describe tus amistades más importantes.

3. ¿Dónde y cómo solían fluir las “noticias de su vecindario”?

CAPÍTULO 3 Días escolares

1. Asegúrese de capturar los nombres y las fechas en las que asistió de las escuelas de gramática, preparatoria, universidades, oficios o técnicas.

2. ¿Cuáles son sus primeros recuerdos del día escolar?

3. ¿Hay algún profesor o asignatura que le haya gustado o no le haya gustado especialmente?

4. ¿Qué aprendiste en esos primeros años de escuela que te gustaría transmitir a la siguiente generación?

5. ¿Estuvo involucrado en deportes, música, teatro u otras actividades extracurriculares?

CAPÍTULO 4: De camino al trabajo

1. ¿Qué querías ser de mayor?

2. ¿Cuál fue su primer trabajo y cómo lo consiguió?

3. ¿Cómo fue su primer jefe? ¿Qué aprendiste de él o ella?

4. ¿Te fuiste? ¿Dejar? ¿Ser promovido? ¿Ser despedido?

5. ¿Estuvo sin trabajo durante mucho tiempo? Si es así, ¿cómo lo manejaste?

CAPÍTULO 5 Romance y matrimonio

1. ¿Qué recuerdas de tu primera cita?

2. ¿Cómo supo que estaba realmente enamorado?

3. Dime cómo “hiciste la pregunta” o cómo te la hicieron.

4. Hábleme de su ceremonia de boda. ¿Qué año? ¿Dónde? Cuantos asistieron? ¿Luna de miel?

5. Cuénteme acerca de cómo comenzar su familia.

6. ¿Estuvo casado más de una vez? ¿Con qué frecuencia?

CAPÍTULO 6: Ocio y viajes

1. ¿Cuáles fueron las vacaciones o viajes familiares más memorables que pueda recordar?

2. ¿En qué actividades de ocio participa?

3. ¿Cuáles son sus mayores logros en este campo?

CAPÍTULO 7: Lugares de culto

1. ¿Sigues alguna tradición religiosa?

2. Si es así, ¿cuál y cómo es?

3. ¿Ha cambiado alguna vez de fe?

4. ¿Qué papel juegan tus creencias en tu vida hoy?

5. ¿Qué les diría a sus hijos sobre su fe?

CAPÍTULO 8 Guerra y paz

1. ¿Fue voluntario, recluta o objetor de conciencia?

2. Si no sirvió, ¿qué recuerda de haber estado en el frente interno durante la guerra?

3. ¿Qué momentos clave recuerda sobre su servicio?

4. ¿Qué le diría a los jóvenes soldados, marineros y aviadores de hoy?

CAPÍTULO 9 Triunfo y tragedia

1. ¿Cuáles fueron los momentos más felices y satisfactorios de su vida?

2. ¿Algún momento triste, trágico o difícil que le gustaría compartir, como perder a un ser querido, un trabajo o algo que le importaba?

3. ¿Qué lecciones aprendió para toda la vida de estos tiempos difíciles? ¿Tiempos felices?

4. ¿Hubo momentos que recuerde como verdaderos avances en alguna área de su vida?

5. Si pudieras hacer algo diferente en tu vida, ¿cuál sería?

CAPÍTULO 10 Palabras de sabiduría

1. ¿Qué ha aprendido a lo largo de su vida que le gustaría compartir con la generación más joven?

2. La gente a veces repetirá aforismos como “la honestidad es la mejor política”. Si lo hacen, asegúrese de preguntar cómo aprendieron esa lección de vida.

CAPÍTULO 11: Funnybones

1. ¿Cuáles fueron las bromas o bromas favoritas de su familia?

2. ¿Quién es o era el comediante de la familia? “¿Hombre heterosexual?

3. ¿Cuál es la historia familiar más divertida que recuerdas?

CAPÍTULO 12 Gracias

1. ¿Qué es lo que más agradece de su vida?

2. ¿Cómo les ha enseñado a sus hijos a ser agradecidos?

3. ¿Hay elementos o lugares que marquen un agradecimiento especial por sus seres queridos? ¿Qué son? Cuales son sus historias?

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Premium Family History Websites: 2

1. 19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive – 70 UK & Irish papers with 3 million pages searchable. 2

2. Alexander Street Press- -The American Civil War – Research Database, Letters & Diaries, Images, Photographs, Poster, Ephemera (alexanderstreet.com) 2

3. American Ancestors – New England Historic Genealogical Society – 400 million searchable names; 1.4 billion records. 3

4. Ancestry – 16 billion records. Institute versions: US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom (ancestry.com) 3

5. ArkivDigital – Swedish Genealogy access to about 77 million images of church records and other historical records. (arkivdigital.net) 3

6. FamNet – New Zealand (Kiwis) database of 15 million records. (famnet.org) 3

7. Findmypast 4

8. Fold3 – 118 million records in Military Records (fold3.com) 4

9. Geaneanet- started in France, principally in Europe. Trees of 400 million. Post your own tree. 4

10. Kinpoint (premium) – shows problems in family tree, record matches, possible temple names. 4

11. MyHeritage – started in telaviv, now worldwide. 3B family trees & 9B records. Post your own tree. 4

12. Newspaper Archive – 2.3 billion US newspaper articles. 5

13. Paper trail – US American pioneer wagon train diaries; 3500 orig docs; 74,000 searchable names. 5

14. Puzzilla (premium) — 5

Each Family History Center has access to a number of sites that are extremely helpful. An individual LDS member can get free access to several of these sites on their individual computer, but most can be accessed only at the Center. A non-member can only access them at a family history center.

Topics:

(Genealaogical Resources)

-Premium Family History websites — Center Access Only: Free patron access to premium subscription websites.

-The Family History Guide — A free, comprehensive learning and resource center about family history and FamilySearch.

-My Family Booklet — Capture and preserve your family story.

(Classes & Workshops)

–FamilySearch Blog — FamilySearch news and helpful tips.

Family History Callings For Center Staff: A collection of online resources to help you fulfill your calling.

(One-on-one Assistance)

-FamilySearch Research Wiki — Free family history research advice for the community, by the community.

-FamilySearch Help Center — FamilySearch Knowledge Center.

Premium Family History Websites Available:

1. 19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive – 70 UK & Irish papers with 3 million pages searchable

     This site is managed by Gale Cengage, contains 70 UK & Irish national and local titles with over three million pages of searchable digitized content. This full-text, fully searchable digital archive currently includes papers originating in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, carefully selected by an editorial board from the British Library and providing a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century.

2. Alexander Street Press- -The American Civil War – Research Database, Letters & Diaries, Images, Photographs, Poster, Ephemera (alexanderstreet.com)

• Letters and Diaries – Scholars can read close to 200 intimate letters written by Amos Wood that illustrate what life was like for a Massachusetts family separated by the war. The letters and diaries give both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers. For the first time, users can see and compare the writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen and spies. Search by authors, source works, months, places, battles, key personal events, daily events, gender, age, allegiance, residence, race, religion, occupation, schools attended, educational level, military rank and status, marital and parental status, age of death, cause of death and more.
• Database- The American Civil War Research Database™ is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War, with indexed, searchable information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 16,000 photographs.

3. American Ancestors – New England Historic Genealogical Society – 400 million searchable names; 1.4 billion records

americanancestors.org

     The American Ancestors website has over 400 million searchable names covering New England, New York, Canada, and more.  It’s searches include database, category and journal searches. 

     America’s founding genealogical organization and the most respected name in family history. Extensive Mayflower descendants. Established in 1845, NEHGS is the nation’s leading comprehensive resource for family history research and the largest Society of its kind in the world.

     It provides access to more than 1.4 billion records spanning twenty-two countries covering the United States, the British Isles, continental Europe, and beyond, including one of the most extensive online collections of early American genealogical records, the largest searchable collection of published genealogical research journals and magazines, and the largest collection of U.S Catholic records online.

4. Ancestry – 16 billion records. Institute versions: US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom (ancestry.com)

Ancestry has over 16B records which is the largest collection in the world. They have 5B public member trees which can be searched for new info on an ancestor you are researching. It started in Orem and has expanded throughout the world. An individual could upload their database to access the “hints” of records available on a given ancestor

5. ArkivDigital – Swedish Genealogy access to about 77 million images of church records and other historical records. (arkivdigital.net)

     It is a database of Swedish church records and other historical records. There is no index, you have to know what time frame to go to… however MyHeritage is indexing some of the ArkivDigital records.

6. FamNet – New Zealand (Kiwis) database of 15 million records. (famnet.org)

They have pedigree charts that have been uploaded to its website. FamNet now has 15,470,457  GDB (Genealogical Data Base) Records. It allows you to link your family records to articles and pictures in Papers Past, Auckland Libraries, and over 100 other New Zealand Sites.

7. Findmypast

– started in the UK, 4 billion British & Irish records      The home of British & Irish family history. The website hosts over 4 billion searchable records of census, directory and historical record information although it is possible to search their indexes for free

8. Fold3 – 118 million records in Military Records (fold3.com)

Fold3 features premier collections of original military records. These records (118,728,733) include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military. Many of records come the U.S. National Archives, The National Archives of U.K. and many others.

9. Geaneanet- started in France, principally in Europe. Trees of 400 million. Post your own tree.

     Family Trees of 400 million individuals in their Online Family Trees. Hundreds of thousands free digitized archival records and hundreds of mostly free digitized registers are available.

1.3 million graves; 57,000 pictures; 275,000 postcards; 10 million archival records; 56 million indexed individuals

10. Kinpoint (premium) – shows problems in family tree, record matches, possible temple names

     Kinpoint shows you data problems in your family tree and record matches for information you are missing. It was formed in early 2013 based on a project at Brigham Young University called The 20 Minute Genealogist. They make it easy to do Family History, even if you just have a few minutes.

     They developed the free Take a Name mobile app to discover LDS ordinances that might be temple ready.

     The premium subscription of Kinpoint costs $5/mo. Basic has Missing birth, marriage and death information; Ordinances that are ready or need more information For LDS members. The Premium subscription has a Timeline, duplicate and cleanup problems and record matches for information you are missing

11. MyHeritage – started in telaviv, now worldwide. 3B family trees & 9B records. Post your own tree

Database of family trees (3B profiles) and records (9B records). Post your own tree

       The easy & exciting way to explore your family history. Start discovering now! 24/7 Customer support. 2.9 billion profiles. 42 languages. Instant Discoveries™. Smart Matches™. Over 94 million users. Over 8.9 billion records. New records daily. 40 million family trees. Discover your roots today.

12. Newspaper Archive – 2.3 billion US newspaper articles

     The articles contain birth, marriage, death, obituary, work and family activities. U.S. historic newspaper archives from 1736-2018 in 2.28 billion old newspaper articles about more than 5.6 billion people

13. Paper trail – US American pioneer wagon train diaries; 3500 orig docs; 74,000 searchable names

     Paper-trail.org/ is a collection by OCTA (Oregon-California Trails Association) f the exciting story of the 19th Century westward American migration based on a searchable index of these remarkable journeys, with names, places and a survey of the text.

     From over 3500 original documents Paper Trail organizes information into an easy to search database, featuring over 74000 searchable names. Reports include dates, routes, … One of its many features is a full listing of original diaries and journals that can be read online, printed or downloaded.    

     The preliminary searches are free, but a subscription is required to access reports and surveys.

14. Puzzilla (premium) —

Puzzilla is a site that views your tree as a spider.  Puzzilla has a short training video that is worth watching.

       You click on an ancestor (1800-1830) and make them the root person; then look at their descendants view. 

       Modify the search settings –

a. turn off under 12,

b. turn on time & put 1820-1870. 

Now these individuals will show up as “red”.  You want a family with several children who are red, which means they had no descendants (which is unlikely that none of them had descendants).  You are looking for a group of children (say 3-6) who have no descendants since it is very likely that one or several really did have families that can be added to FT

View the individual in FT and extend a line for each of the children (looking for marriage, children on a census)

       It has an incredibly helpful descendants tool to search for potential families needing temple work. They have a free version (which is quite useful) and a $40/yr paid version that has several advanced identifying helps that may be worth the cost.

     Premium services ($40/year) include:

a. Hints with clickable title links. A hint is a historical record with significant possibility of matching the selected person.

b. Sources with titles and some with clickable links. A source is an attached historical record containing the selected person, in the opinion of the submitter

c. Changes made by the user, either by adding or changing the record in FamilyTree

d. Possible duplicates. A possible duplicate is another person whose identity is similar to the selected person and may be the same person.

e. Available Ordinances. Accessible by LDS user accounts.

f. Search the chart for records containing (1) a name, place, or ID number and/or (2) a birth within a specified time period.

These can be used in the weekly ward bulletin to create an on-going interest in family history and temple work.

     Of the 500, maybe 50 are really good which would be enough for a year.  You can modify some of the rest to come up with your own version and perhaps generate enough for a 2nd year.

Our Sunday bulletin entry would look like this:

Family History:  Don’t be in the welfare line at the temple.  Get your name from the Ordinance Ready file.

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Here are my quips and zingers:

1.  How are you doing in the two-fold mission of the church?  …  What?  Who said there are three?

2. – Don’t be in the welfare line at the temple.  Get your name from the Ordinance Ready file.

3.  Do you ever get tired of waiting???  So do they.

4.  A family intervention on the other side may be motivating you.

5.  The fastest way to help yourself is to help an ancestor.

6.  If your family history is “all done”, tell that to your ancestors.  They didn’t get the word from the warden.

7.  Some of the dead are more alive that some of the living.

8.  Attend the baptism of an ancestor – take their name to the temple.

9.  Pink and blue and yellow at the temple means one of your ancestors is having a party.

10.  There’s a record on earth and a record in heaven.  The second isn’t available until we look for the first.

11.  Can you use your last 20 years to make up for the first 60?  Yes, but an older model isn’t as zippy.

12.  “New” sources are often hid in old covers.

13.  It’s impossible to save yourself without saving others.  There are no hermits in the Celestial Kingdom.

14.  If it is to be, it’s up to me.

15.  Many are called, but few show up.

16.  Heavenly email comes in the form of “Now that’s a good idea!”

17.  If you think you enjoyed the temple session today, how do you think they felt?

18.  Family history for children:  Draw it.  Date it.  Save it.  Their grandchildren will think it’s awesome.

19.  Get references on your celestial resume.  Contact an ancestor.

20.  “Find” and ancestor… and they’ll baby-sit your children — in a way you can’t.

21.  Need help with your living children?  Do something so that your ancestors’ prayers will reach towards heaven on your behalf.

22.  In family history, there’s the fast way and the slow way.  I prefer the fast.

23.  Do you want a standing ovation?  Take a name to the temple.

24.  One of your ancestors looks just like you.  Check out some old family photos.

25.  Family history can help erase a multitude of sins.  And who of us doesn’t have a multitude to erase?

26.  Have a family reunion at the temple.  Send an invitation to an ancestor to meet you there.

27.  You’re the ancestor of someone later.  Leave a history for them.

28.  How important is the work for the dead?  Ask one of them.

29.  Patience is not a virtue when you are putting off doing something good.

30.  Doing something is better than doing nothing noisily

31.  Sign at Dyslexic convention in Hell:  Just say “on” to family history.

32.  Each ancestor is the center of their universe.  Go in and visit.

33.  Want to meet a new friend who will repeat your name 100 times?  Meet them at the temple.

34.  The only way for others to leave spirit prison is through your front room.

35.  You can get out of your house thru many doors and windows… they can get out of spirit prison only thru one door .. and it has your address on it.

36.  Not all inmates are bad.  Some of your finest family members are in spirit prison.

37.  Ever feel restricted, bossed around, limited?  Try trading places with your gg-grandpa who is in spirit prison.

38.  Your gg-grandma went to spirit prison.  They said she could make one call… but your line was busy…. a lot.

39.  In the gospel, it isn’t the speed but the direction that is critical.

40.  It’s almost ironic.  I can either help you out of spirit prison… or share your cell when I get there.

41.  You are the central figure for all who came before you and all who will come after you.

42. If not now, when?  Today is yesterday’s “later”.

43. Breathe deeply twice.  According to King Benjamin, you now owe the Lord “2”.  Do you have a repayment plan?

44. If you don’t do a good thing, does it make any difference if your reason was rational, well-articulated, and thought-out … or lame, silly and ridiculous?

45.  After your final curtain call, after your cast has gone home, is your ancestral audience still cheering wildly?

46. It’d be a shame to reach your peak at lackluster.

47. Family History and Temple Work are like a fine crème brulee, sweet and savory, except the wonderful, rich after-taste of family history lingers on and on and on.

48. Family History are like a meat sandwich, a nice wheatie start and end, with a little baloney in the middle.

49. As you do their family history, hundreds of your family members on the other side will insist you live right next door to them… imagine how breathtaking their surroundings are.

50. What a wonderful place this kingdom will be, if I love family as I love me.

51.  Do you believe in love at first sight?  Or .. should I drive my family history-mobile by again?

52.  If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then some people must really love family history.

52.  Do you know why older people are so active in family history?  They’re cramming for their finals.

54.  The avalanche of the Spirit of Elijah starts out one snowflake at a time.

55. Family history is like a tooth.  If you ignore it long enough, it goes away … and so do you.

56.  Don’t let a short burst of what doesn’t take precedence, last a lifetime.

57.  In the gospel, it may not matter how much you do, but only that you do it often.

58.  I’m busy.  Try me again in 50 years.

59.  No movement on the treadmill of life is movement.

60.  I can’t tell you something you don’t already know, but I can tell it to you again… they’re not dead. They are over there.  Look, can’t you feel them?

61.  Your ancestor may have a ski mask on here but on the other side of the veil he is in plain daylight.  Ask someone there to help identify him.

62.  After Mr. Family history-want-a-be died, his tombstone read:  “After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.”

63.  We may be eloquent with our intentions, but if nothing results, it is called a whole lotta’ “blarney, blather and poppycock.”

64.  May we introduce Dr. and Mrs. Family history and their three children, woulda, shoulda and coulda.

65.  There are many of the church who profess me, but know me not, for I am found in the temple. 

66.  In life, don’t mistake the 90% dribble for the 10% substance.  Take an ancestor to the temple.

67.  A gentile approach to family history and temple work: “Yah, whatever.”  Isn’t it nice to be in the clear minority, the weak, the few, the exalted.

68.  There’s a kingdom of difference between the goodly and the godly. 

69.  He who blows his horn the loudest is usually in the biggest fog.

70.  This is serious work.

71.  Let’s have your birthday party at the jail, that way your ancestors can come.

72.  Give your ancestor an unforgettable birthday present – a “get out of jail” card.  They are available at the temple.

73.  This next year, every one of your ancestors will celebrate another birthday.  I wonder where they’ll have the party… in or out?

74.  Wake up!  In the “work for the dead”, the “dead” are those who are receiving not those who are doing the work.

75.  Are you alive or dead in the “work for the dead?”

76.  It’s not easy to rest from “no labor.”  The only rest from “no labor” is labor.

77.  Your ancestor’s coffin has room for only one. If you’re not “alive” in the work for the dead, you would want to order your own.

78.  Too much entertainment makes you spiritually sluggish.  A family history workout, three times a week, would put some tone back into that spiritual countenance.

79.  Let the prisoners go free.  You are the key.

80.  Ruth and Naomi are tracting in the spirit world.  They convert your Aunt Lizzie.  Guess who needs to arrange for her baptism at the temple.

81.  Would having to wait 100 years bug you?  Then, — Let the faithful be bugged!

82.  Did you know “family history” starts with the letter “u”.  Now look in the mirror and say out loud, “U” are the key.

83.  How will the Second coming be for you personally?  Great or dreadful?

84.  There are three ways to not be toast at the second coming:  Tithing (DC 64:23), Be meek and obedient (DC 35:15) and Family history (DC 128:24).  Are you threefold protected?

85.  If you have to look four places to find your ancestor, by definition you can’t start with #4.  If you do, you’ll find them in #3, unless you looked 4-3-2-1, then they’re in the 1^st place which you found last.

86.  Do you know how to differentiate between the foolish and the wise virgins?  One group has high video game scores, a subscription to “My Favorite Star” and thinks temple work is for old people; and the other is wiser.

87.  Remember the two sock rule:  One on the floor is decoration, two on the floor are hazardous waste… either way, it gives you something to write about in your journal.

88.  There’s a kingdom of difference between childish and child-like.  One throws a temper tantrum, the other a temple trip.

89.  Will the afflictions of your suffering ancestors be for a small moment … or a big one?

90.  Give your ancestors a chance to blast through your mountain of good intentions.

91.  Email an ancestor @ proxy.com.

92.  If they had a class at the local community college about you, what would it be called?  Family history, Fun-ology, or Meathead-ology.

93.  Is your family history-mobile built for looks, speed or endurance?  You do have one, don’t you?

94.  A successful temple trip includes going.

95.  Does the few include you?

96.  A temple isn’t meant to be peaceful and quiet because no one’s there.  It’s meant to be busy, peaceful and quiet.

97.  Is your life unfolding or unraveling?  Either way, enjoy a nice quiet moment in the temple.

98.  Sin blossoms for a short time, but salvation flowers forever.  Plant something in the hearts of your children.

99.  Esau was full for that day, but empty forever after.  Go to the temple for eternal nourishment.

100.  How many names have you submitted to the temple this year? An ephah, a firkin or a homer?  You ought to shoot for at least a firkin by the end of the year.

101.  The opposite of “why” is “why not”.  “Why Not” go to the family history center?

102.  In Hawaii, “aloha” is both a greeting and a farewell.  When you say “Family history, a-l-o-h-a” is it coming or going?

103.  Part of your uniqueness comes from your ancestors.  Get acquainted.

104.  Just because you’re looking doesn’t mean they want to be found.   Try someone who’ll answer the doorbell.

105.  If 30 billion have died and there are 12 million members here, then each member is stake president of 2,500 in the spirit world who need ordinances.  Say, President, “How many in your Paradise South Stake already accepted the missionary lessons and are requesting baptism this year?”

106.  If you “can’t be saved without your dead,” where do you think the unsaved go?

107.  In the work for the dead, 1+1=3 and 2+2=9 because family power is multiplied.

108.  Send an email to an ancestor.  The terminal is at the temple.

109.  Guilt is good.  Cumulative guilt brings about change.

110.  Family history for the busy person:  15 minutes per week = 1 hour per month = 1000 hours lifetime.  Formidable!

111.  If you could put one picture on your tombstone, rather than a TV or car or house or vacation or title, how about a picture of your hands… indicating service reaching out to others.

112.  If I’m hosting a “tell me about your ancestors” party, and we’re going to feed everyone during your presentation … should I prepare some light snacks or will we have time for a 7 course meal?

113.  If you could re-write the last ten years of your life, be sure to incorporate those changes into the ten on the horizon.

114.  A smiler — smiles; an eater — eats; a helper — helps, and a savior — saves.   If you are a Savior on Mount Zion, where is Mount Zion and who are you saving?

115.  Do you know where all the individuals of scattered Israel have the covenants of Father Abraham renewed to them?  It is in holy places.

116.  As you leave the temple, the Lord’s name is upon you, His glory is round about you and his angels have charge over you.

117.  The temple is the great spiritual spot remover.

118.  There is no royal short cut for the world’s prestigious to go to the temple… all roads to the temple go through the bishop’s office.

119.  The temple is an earthly united order where all are equal before God.

120.  Do you want to perform a neighborly task today?  Go to the temple and give an ancestor a new home.

121.  The work for the dead is helpful for the dead but critical for the living.

122.  Wonderful epitaph:  “Mom dipped the beaters into the cake mix a second time so we could lick them again.”

123.  We manicure our nails in a salon; we manicure our flowers in a garden; we manicure our souls in the temple.

124.  Is your cascading fountain from the temple down to a trickle?  Open up the floodgates.

125.  It took ten dollars to hunt it up, and a hundred dollars to hush it up.

126.  Did you ever hear of the little bang theory of evolution?  Grandpa first proposed it when grandma baked her …..

127.  Be ye an ensample that ye have turned from the altars of the un-doers and shew to us a better way.

128.  Do ye shamefully entreat your family history?

129.  Let your family be your glory and joy.

130.  Does anyone in your family seem to be “too perfect?”  I’m reminded of the story:  The minister asked, “Was there ever a person except Christ who attained perfection?”  A man timidly raised his hand in the back, rose and said “My wife’s first husband.”

131.  If your ancestral family is the chocolate on your hot fudge sundae, is it deliciously scrumptious or fudgeless?

132.  Family history has a language all itself.  Loosely translated, it says … rich and creamy, with nuts on top.

133.  Don’t get too pleased with yourself.  Others have had a longer time to make up an even more outrageous story.  It takes time.

134.  All facts are not of equal value.  Celestial facts are better.

135.  You think your family line goes back a long ways? Well, my uncle lex was so famous they named the word lexicology (the study of words) after him.

136.  Who makes up your weekly schedule?  Offer them a celestial chocolate éclair for a few minutes of family history time.

137.  Put life in “time out” while you do some family history.

138.  Go to the website familysearch.org or rootsweb.com… on the other hand, just think about going there.

139.  When you write your family history, don’t be so persnickety, it’s ok to just flail away. 

140.  When you first start, remember that a pencil has both lead and eraser, but the lead comes first.

141.  Spare me your eloquent excuses.  Mine are much better.

142.  The most important part of your family tree is the trunk — without it, everything left is just leaves and dust.  The trunk is the sealing power.

143.  What is the fountain that feeds your family tree?  It is the temple.

144.  Let your thirst for family be filled.

145.  When I come across unsavory family members, I remember this poem:  When you get to heaven, you will likely view, many folks whose presence there, will be a shock to you.  But, keep quiet, do not even stare, doubtless, there’ll be many folks, surprised to see you there.

146.  Fathers, submit yourselves and your family to the spirit of Elijah. 

147.  If a spotted cow had a map of your ancestors, would the spots be scattered, connected or completely filled in?

148.  To find the lost, you have to look.

149.  Are you a welcomed addition to your ancestral family?

150.  If you ancestors are in a place where the streets are paved with gold, do they get to walk on the streets or did they simply bring the gold bricks from the workhouse?  Help them take up residence there.

151.  Family history activities are like intermittent wipers.  You can not only turn them on or off, you can also set the speed.

152.  Don’t kid yourself.  The great pyramids of Egypt will be like little sand castles when compared to the magnitude of your family tree.

153.  If your database were offered at auction, would it be at the Little Nickel or Sotheby’s?

154.  I got my dad’s third grade report card… Let me introduce you to the “real world.”

155.  If your family history were a bobble-head doll, would it have much of a face on it?

156.  Is you database average, small, dinky or microscopic?  Don’t feel bad, all of these are better than zero.

157.  Which of these is correct?  Miniscule or minuscule.  Hey, quit talking about my family history that way.

158.  If we hid your family history under a postage stamp, what size font would the letters be?  14, 10, 6, 2, microchip.

159.  If you turned on your faucet and known ancestors poured out, would you have a trickle or a flood?

160.  If special glasses allowed you to see your ancestors, would you recognize any of them? … and maybe more importantly, would any of them recognize you?

161.  Two key stones are used in a building:  the cornerstone and the capstone.  They’re at the beginning and the end.  What stone do you need to build your ancestral mansion?

162.  How many ancestors does it take to fill a thimble?  Well, it depends on the size of the thimble.  You’re the thimble-maker.  How big is your thimble?

163.  What would your genealogical picnic basket have in it?  Potato salad without potatoes .. Sandwiches without the meat ..  Jell-O without the jell .. sweet and sour ribs without the ribs.  You’re the chef.

164.  Entertainment is like cotton candy, pink, fluffy and sweet, but it lasts only for a moment.  Try entertaining angels.

165.  The foolish ask “why”; the wise say “when.”

166.  Send your scapegoat bearing the excuses of the congregation to a far place so the work for the dead may come near.

167.  Do you know of any promises of God that won’t be fulfilled?  Then why do you think that he won’t “smite the earth with a curse” if we are negligent?

168.  I wouldn’t mind it if the earth were massaged, but to be smitten seems a little harsh.

169.  I made some motivational genealogical stickers called “all done” but the people I gave them to thought I was talking about making the stickers and said “why, thank you.”

170.  Are you a family history widow?  Surprise your spouse.  Find a new name and add it to their database.  When they discover it, they will say, “Surely an angel has done this.”  And they will be right.

171.  Let your works precede your words.

172.  There is no lasting promise outside the temple.

173.  Baptism, even though it is good, is insufficient.

174.  You planted something today.  You do every day.  Will you like it when it is fully grown?  If not, re-plow, re-seed and re-water and your harvest will be richer.

175.  It does no good if your family history-mobile gets 60 miles per gallon on the freeway —  if you’re not on the freeway. 

176.  Don’t be too puffed up by the size of your database.  The ones you missed aren’t that impressed.

177.  If you have a sense of humor, you’ll name your turtle “PAF.”

178.  Unless you capture incoming inspiration, it flies away at the same speed.

179.  The driver’s view out the front window is about 10 times larger than the view out the back through the rear view mirror.  What’s your view of family history … front or back?

180.  The glorious gospel includes glorious programs.

181.  There’s a minimum speed on the gospel freeway or you will be ticketed and have to appear before the judge.  Are you at least going the minimum?

182.  Super size your genealogical activities.  Think about it twice today.

183.  If you were a genealogical maple leaf, what color would you be?  green, red, yellow, brown, or fertilizer?

184.  How much pressure would your family history hot air balloon have?  15psi, 30psi, 100 psi, or galactic explosion.

185.  To lower air density in a hot air balloon without losing air pressure, you simply need to increase the speed of the air particles.  It’s the same with family history.  Move faster and your rise up.

186.  If family history were done by the dead for the living, would you be:  impatient, relaxed, satisfied, tortured.

187.  If the earth shouted for joy at it’s creation, how does it feel now with 100 temples on its surface?

188.  Is it better to do a little work, imperfectly; or no work, exactly?

189.  My ancestor sent me a letter with three names to take to the temple.  He addressed it to:  “Interested Party” at my address.  I wasn’t, so I threw it away.

190.  The letter from my ancestor had Paradise as the return address but I didn’t know anyone in Paradise, AK, AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, ID, KS, IN, KY, MD, MI, MO, NV, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, TX, UT, or WA so I didn’t open it.

191.  The weapons of our warfare are computers, family history centers, transportation, temples and time.  May we go on to victory!

192.  It is unwise to measure yourself against another.  You are your own measure.  You measure how tall you should stand and how fast you should run. …  Stand tall.  Run a good race.

193.  Can anyone stop you from performing a good work?  Yes, but there is only one, and you can choose the better part.

194.  If your basket is made of family history reeds, is it big enough for one egg or a henhouse.

195.  You may not think much of some ancestors, but the story isn’t fully written yet.  You are writing some of it and so are they.

196.  Look at a baby picture of yourself, your parents and your grandparents.  See any similarities?

197.  If you were for sale, would your ancestor buy you?

198.  A 50 year old car can be a beautiful classic or a bucket of bolts; it depends on the care it was given.  What’s the condition of your old family histories, certificates and photos?

199.  How many ancestors can you get into a “volks”wagon?  It depends on how well they like you.

200.  Given enough time, almost all families have kings and presidents, and sheep thieves and robbers.   If your family is lacking in one of the four, could you apply for the position?

201.  Given your family heritage, would we call your town wonderville or fruitdale?

202.  Do you have an ancestor born in the 1400’s?  (ZZZZzzzz….  of course you did or you wouldn’t be here)

203.  Which ancestor is having a birthday today?  Wish them happy birthday.

204.  When your ancestors lived anciently, did you view their activities?… Likewise, do you think they’re aware of you now?

205.  It is your opportunity to bridge an ancestral gap that has existed for hundreds of years.

206.   Whoever packed your parachute in the pre-existence, so you could come to earth, do their work first.  They may be in charge of the return flight.

207.  Aunt Lizzie and Uncle Frank are still in the “guest house” in spirit prison… someone needs to complete the court’s orders for baptism and confirmation to have them released.

208.  Some say fun is in and pleasure rocks, but duty, duty, duty knocks.

209.  The earlier your ancestors get their spiritual flu shot, the more good they can do among the sick there.

210.  If you ever feel beleaguered, have a refreshing ancestor frappe.

211.  Invite an ancestor to dinner.  Set a place for them.  Tell their story.

212.  Bishop’s view of family history:  The local bishop climbed the hill every morning at 6 am and watched the train go through town.  Why?  “I just love seeing something in this town move without me pushing it.”

213.  They agreed to come to the earth during a time of spiritual darkness, with the promise that you would come in the day of brightness and do their temple work.

214.  If you’d like to make a splash on the other side, make one on this side at the baptistry.

215.  The irony of life is it’s not about you, it’s about others.

216.  When it’s time to nurture your family roots, go the Family History Center for fertilizer.

217.  There are three ways to do family history: 1- You do it; 2- Motivate someone else to do it; or 3- Marry into it.  Pick one and move forward.

218.  You’re the gas in your family history-putt putt.  Seen any new scenery recently?

219.  This is Family History in its simplest terms:   find a name, go to the temple; find two names, take a friend to the temple; find 10 names, meet your family at the temple.

220.  Get in the express line at the temple, take your own family name.

221.  In the family history race, it isn’t who comes in first; first place goes to all who come in again and again and again.

222.  On your 4-wheeled family history bike, are all wheels turning the same direction?

223.  It’s time to prune your ancestral tree.  They’re getting rid of the dead wood.  Are you in danger of becoming mulch?

224.  You may be tired of doing good things, but are the good things tried of being done?

225.  What will penetrate your armor of independence?

226.  I’m having a hard time moving the Family History Center to you.  Can you meet me part way?

227.  Go to the temple with a question… and listen.

228.  Don’t wait to plan a visit to the Family History Center.  Allot a certain amount of time and the way will unfold.

229.  What animal best describes your family history?   _____ …  You can change animals if you want to.

230.  If each propeller represents 500 names, does your family history beanie have one, two or three propellers?

231.  What does your family history answer phone have as a message?  Ring, ring; no such number; temporarily disconnected; I’m so glad you called; I’ll call back ASAP; I already knew you were going to call and did the work.

232.  Can I give you a fashion tip?  Family history and Temple Work will be in style for 1,000 years.

233.  If you seem to be someone, is your recognition short term or long term?

234.  Green represents growth… get involved in greenealogy.

235.  The law of substitution says temple work will cover many-a-shortcoming.  Let the short comers take note.

236.  Be zealously affected in a good work.

237.  Do you persecute those who do family history by under appreciating their efforts?

238.  You can’t enjoy the breeze in your face while flying downhill unless you first go uphill. 

239.  The love you feel for your spouse will gradually disappear unless sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise.  The sealing requires maintenance.

240.  Could you mail your family history with a 55 cent stamp or would it take a Priority Pack to house it?

241.  The gospel rule is clear about enduring half-way … you better make sure it’s the second half and not the first.

242.  Get time-and-a-half in a labor of love by going to the temple in your free time.

243.  Puff up your ancestors.  A little leaven leavens the whole family.

244.  Having trouble getting traction in family history?  Try the new 5-ply family history snow tires.

245.  If they put a radar gun on your family history, would it measure 65, 55, 35, 15, or just hiccup?

246.  I was so open-minded that family history just fell right out.

247.  What’s the going price for a family linked together?  Whether the family is alive or dead, the price is the same….. Time.

248.  Don’t be the roadblock that keeps spirits on the other side of the veil from completing their assignments.

249.  When you die, don’t plan on taking a long trip.

250.  Hold hands with an ancestor. 

251.  The key to your ancestor’s heart lies within your familial feelings.

252.  Do your temple mileposts indicate you are getting closer or further away?

253.  A engine on a block with a broken muffler and a dragster engine make the same amount of noise, but do not move at the same speed.  Which are you?

254.  Are you little because of your accomplishments or your humility?

255.  If you had 3 cents left over from a full life, on what activity would you spend it?

256.  In your family history baseball game, what’s the score?  Do you have runners in scoring position?  Who’s the clean-up hitter?

257.  My tip for beating the heat:  Use family history reflector shields.

258.  Would you like a family history home delivery system?  You already have one.  If you do it, you get to go home.

259.  Do you want to write a best seller in the spirit world?  Go to templeattendance.com for instructions.

260.  Freon for spiritual air conditioning is not free.

261.  Speak to me of spiritual things.  My spirit yearns for the old conversations.

262.  The shuttle to Paradise has plenty of room.  Do you have your flight number?

263.  Fluffy clouds can be turbulent inside.  Don’t be deluded by the world’s fluffiness.  Go to the temple for real peace.

264.  Need a good flotation device for the next life?  How about an ancestral seat cushion.

265.  Does your family history-mobile have 4 gears forward and 1 reverse, or 1 forward and 4 reverse?

266.  The carpool lane to the Family History Center is very fast… to use it, take a friend.

267.  The Family History Center is missing only one thing in order to perform a great work …. The laborer.

268.  Look at the Family History Center as a safe house from the fiery darts of the adversary.

269.  Do you want to add a little intrigue to your family history?  It’s probably already there… you just have to find it.

270.  Family history parking lights are good if you are parked; but you need bright lights if you are moving.

271.  Is your family history flammable or inflammable?  Hopefully both.  They mean to grow hot with excitement or excessive feelings.

272.  As you get older, how many gospel blessings are you willing to retire from?

273.  If you could pick one ancestor to be your guide in the spirit world, who would it be?

274.  Hopefully your abode in the spirit world will be more than a laundry room with bars.

275.  How fast can you go in the spirit world?  It depends on your location.  One place is 25 mph (heavily populated) but the other is like lightning.

276.  What’s the drink for tomorrow?  Heavenly Breeze or Devil’s Delight.  You get to choose.

277.  Is your country home – more country or more home?  To make it “more home”, add family.

278.  Are your ancestors lazy, shiftless, incompetent?  Hum … a chip off the old block.

279.  What is the difference between a journal and the book of life?  One is written downstairs and the other upstairs.

280.  If family history and temple work are so important, why don’t more people do them?  (Maybe it’s because you can only give A’s to 10% of the class)

281.  Family history tools both at home and at the Family History Center should be worn and used rather than new and shiny and in a glass case for maximum preservation.

282.  It’s a bad sign if your spirit world tour guide is wearing stripes.

283.  Ever say something that came out wrong?  So have they.  Forgive the old family frailties from years ago.

284.  It is not humble to do nothing.

285.  Let the Spirit of Elijah beguile you.

286.  If you life story has two chapters left, what will they be?

287.  Will the “keyword search” in your life history include family, ancestors, family history, submitted, temple, attended?

288.  Your descendants in the millennium will look to you in a remarkable way.  At 3 kids per family, every 33 years – In year 100 you have 27 family members; in year 300 you  have 10,000;  by year 500 you have six million, by year 700 you have five billion descendants.  It is no small labor you are involved in.

289.  What is there about your personal history that you would have rewritten?  You still have chance to over-write it.

290.  Create a life that others will talk about.

291.  The faster you go, the more wind.  No turbulence means no movement.  Stir up some air.

292.  If a descendant were to write your history, what would they want it to say?

293.  If life’s exit speed is 45, there is no reason to be going 20 and clogging up traffic.  Use your family history accelerator.

294.  The life of your ancestor is like an open book… but the pages are blank and you get to fill them in.

295.  In your Family history soccer game, the score is two to zip.  Which are you?

296.  The silence was deafening.  Are we at an opera, a slumber party or the family history center?

297.  An “army of one” doesn’t mean we can’t use more soldiers. 

Enlist at the center.

298.  In family history, it’s both the quality and the quantity.

299.  If one of the ten lepers gave thanks, were they unequally healed?  Base your genealogical activities on the ten needy not the one grateful.

300.  How stunning is your genealogical sunset?  Is it overcast or breathtaking?

301.  Do you do family history because of earth or heaven?

302.  Lots of things have stripes:  bongo, zebra, beetle, grandma, skunks, tigers, grandpa, okapi, hyena, dolphin, bass … did you notice any relatives? (besides the hyena)

303.  Hazard lights on your family history-mobile mean you are stopped and helping someone else, or you are broken down.

304.  Family history is like water skiing, a little rough getting up out of the water, but smooth going when you are on top.

305.  The Olympics of family history would surely include events in typing, scanning, computer endurance exercises, power lifting, puzzle speed races and temple stamina events.

306.  If a ballroom dance were named after your family history, would it be called a minuet or a full-blown musical.

307.  Would your family history orchestra have only a flute or would it include a full ensemble of instruments?

308.  To which group would they sell more tickets to your funeral?  To those who want to see you come or go?

309.  If you genealogical glass is half full, does that mean you are half-way there or you sprung a leak?

310.  Family history puts crystal water in your spiritual fountain.

311.  There is an early-bird special at the Family History Center.  You get double blessings for those who arrive.

312.  We have a parking space reserved for you at the Family History Center… actually, we have 250 of them.

313.  Is your genealogical cruise control set at 60, 45, 30, 15, or 1?

314.  You have an overdue book at the library:  The 100 greatest distractions… by D. D. Dontbugme.

315.  Can your honor your parents without knowing them?

316.  Does the armor of God include a family history nose guard?

317.  Be an ambassador of your grand-parents.

318.  Who loved first, you or your parents?  Who loves last?

319.  If you merge onto Family History Boulevard, you won’t run out of pavement.

320.  Is your faith large enough to include a lively spirit world?

321.  Your secret works will be revealed from the rooftops — maybe family history secrets.

322.  Your ancestor’s feelings are mirrored in your anxiety to do family history.

323.  What do these describe:  zealous, fervent, anxious, moved .. your family history or your non-family history?

324.  Put some dry ice into your family history… let there be bursting bubbles, streams of smoke, and fluffy clouds.

325.  Inquire to find out for yourself if this is the work of God.

326.  Don’t covet another’s family history — yours will grow one person at a time to a multitudinous congregation.

327.  Pray for this unspeakable gift… then speak for the dead.

328.  Who has the greater love?  Your ancestor, You, or Your descendant.

329.  How about a nice religious name for your next child:  Preserve, Faith, Constant, Patience, Comfort, Increase, Hope, Resolute, Truth, Charity, Resolve, Seraph, Temperance, Remembrance, Freedom, Restore,  (they’re all my ancestral names).

330.  How glorious is your family history?

331.  Here is plainness in family history:  Grandma was born, died; was baptized, endowed and sealed.  And I love her.

332.  The world may trouble you on every side but the inside… the heart is where the family is.

333.  Would you like to taste heavenly food?  Go to the cafeteria in the temple.

334.  Can your grandpa marry his brother-in-law’s wife’s sister?  Sure, that’s how you got here.

335.  Don’t get baked in the squat.  Rise up.

336.  Is it easier to do family history in Washington, Bolivia, Japan or France?  Yes – Si – Hai – Oui

337.  What’s your financial plan for retirement?  It depends on which life you are talking about and how luxurious you want it to be….

338.  When boy-girl, becomes mr-mrs, becomes grandpa-grandma, a Kingdom has been created.

339.  If the cost to do family history is an hour a week, what is the cost if you don’t do it?

340.  If your family history were a stock, would it more closely resemble Microsoft or Enron?

341.  Does the shoe store get top billing over the Family History Center?

342.  The upper-graduate level of the gospel is filled with pedigree charts and temple attendance.

343.  What do the initials after your name stand for?  … CPA, BA, PHD .. how about we use FHC since you are at the Family History Center so much we just assumed it was part of your name.

344.  Maybe terrible really won’t be all that terrible …. but then, maybe it’s an understatement.

345.  Does your family history air filter need a cleaning?  Or are you actually missing the filter?

346.  You get triple advantage points for early family history.

347.  How fast does the air flow over your family history wings?  Lift is created by the “over the wings” flow, not under.

348.  If family history were cheese, is yours sharp, mild or Swiss?

349.  If family history were a hairstyle, would yours be a beehive, a flat-top, or would you be balding?

350.  In a family history submarine, you will see wonders and colors never before imagined.

351.  There’s ample room on the other side for both talkers and doers.  They’re just not in the same place — one is in a desert and the other in a meadow.

352.  Is it harder to do family history here or in the spirit world?  Are you willing to bet the farm on the answer?

353.  When people get married, it’s no longer “his” family history and “her” family history… it all becomes “her” family history…. Now come on, priesthood holders…

354.  Magnifying your credit card is not as important as magnifying your ancestors.

355.  Can you imagine?  “No son, no family history for you ’til you finish your video game.”

356.  If you could put family history in your gas tank, how fast would your vehicle go? 

357.  The difference between cold and could is the “u”.  It’s the same with family history .. it’s the “you”.

358.  Which is your family history fuel?  Supreme, hi octane, regular or “temporarily out.”

359.  Is your genealoging a mansion, a townhouse, or a cubicle?

360.  Are you confused about family history?  It’s one person at a time.

361.  If you excuse is more than six months old, it’s like a stale date on a check — you need a new check.

362.  The only equal asset all of us have is time.  No one gets 25.  Everyone gets 24 new ones each day.

363.  Put your own name on the prayer roll at the temple — and with thousands of prayers pushing you, you will move forward.

364.  Family History must edify or it has no eternal significance.

365.  Search for a season, that you may rest forever.

366.  Is your gospel plan large enough to include family history and temple work?

367.  Work while it is called today, for tomorrow may be swallowed up in slumber.

368.  Your actions mirror the intents of you heart.

369.  For an alternative fuel source to create maximum power, try family history.

370.  Guaranteed weight-loss program:  Walk to the local family history center twice a week.  You will lose “waiting” on the other side.

371.  Hoping someone else will do your family history is like “investing” in the lottery.

372.  Travel into the future in your mind.  Ask around.  “What will be of the galactic value?”  Then do it.

373.  Give your computer a workout.  Make it figure out bow tie pedigrees, 5th cousin 4 times removed relationships, Ahnentafel (pedigree) charts … show no mercy.

374.  Are you at least a paragraph in the genealogical book of life?

375.  If the dead can see you… oh, that’s right … they can.

376.  Tug on the heartstrings of a loved one.  Read their history.

377.  How long will the local temple be in existence?  At least through this week end.  Take advantage of it while the sun shines.

378.  Don’t exit life before your third act is over.  The final scene has many temples in it.

379.  Have you logged more than a thousand FreeCell victories?  Shame on you.  You need to switch over to “FreeAuntLizzie” victories. 

380.  Go to the temple and enjoy the company of some Celestial Celebrities who live right among you.

381.  If talking were a fan and doing were a heater, would you be cooler or warmer?  Beware, a furious talker might even generate frostbite.

382.  Building your friends up by doing less than them is counter-productive.

383.  If family history were a blind date, would it be a quiet evening or a moon-bathed, romantic outing?

384.  What’s your “on” button with family history?  Photos … stories … certificates …  temples … You do have an “on” button, don’t you?

385.  What’s an ancestor’s favorite earthly letter?    … probably “U”.

386.  The hole in your armor is where your family history “on” button goes.

387.  What would your personalized family history license plate be?  “Me #1”, or “U #1” or “It’s #1”

388.  If you were their doctor, what kind of care would your ancestors be getting?  …  Any appointments today, Doc?

389.  How many ancestors does it take to send one name to the temple?  One live descendant.

390.   Family history and temple work are not a spectator sport.

392.  Your example is going to be examined.

393.  Every activity counts — some single digits, some double and some triple.

394.  Was the airplane ride of life a little bumpy?  Good, that indicates movement.

395.  Say who?  Say what?  Say when?  Say where? …   All are good family history questions.

396.  Using the “good, better, best” philosophy, … Move your activities up one level.

397.  If the few don’t do it, then who does?

398.  Family History is like exercise … painful at first but exhilarating and strengthening over time.

399.  How many peanuts does it take to make peanut butter?  None.  It takes people to make peanut butter… so it is with family history.

400.  Some of us don’t need a bushel to hide our light under… a thimble would suffice.  Turn up the lamp with a visit to the temple.

401.  What’s our national pastime?  Sports … music … travel … entertainment?  It ought to be service.   So  — “Go Service, Go!”

402.  Spiritual DNA is linked in the temple.

403.  The dead will rise in the resurrection, and some of us will get an earful.

404.  What’s the difference between hole and whole?  It’s the silent “double-u.”  You make a double difference between emptiness and everything.

405.  What’s the difference between ate and innate?  One got eaten, the other was born within…  Be born and go forth.

406.  If an “8” humbles itself and falls over, it becomes the symbol for infinity.  Leave yourself, fall over and do the Lord’s work.

407.  Taking an ancestor’s name to the temple does two things:  It saves and endows two souls, and increases the missionary force on the other side by one.

408.  Bigger is better when it comes to a good thing.  The New Testament uses the phrase “more fruit.”

409.  How many rooms does your ancestral mansion have in it?  You are the architect.  You can build in extra moons and suns if you’d like to.  Sharpen your drawing pencil at the family history center.

410.  Family history is an equal employment opportunity with great health benefits and a generous vacation package.

411.  If family history were your toothpaste, would you be kissing sweet?

412.  If your family history were a road sign, would it be “my mommy works here,” “busy intersection ahead,”  “heavy traffic,” “men at work,”  “detour ahead,” “abandoned road,” or “dead end?”

413.  Carry-on luggage for the Celestial Kingdom is limited to one small hand carry and no extra baggage.

414.  You need to stir the soup of the gospel so the heavy stuff doesn’t just settle on the bottom.

415.  The volcanic ash of family history can provide rich fertilizer for hundreds of years of growth.

416.  What if we are wrong and the main purpose of life isn’t good health, ease, peace, comfort and recognition … then most of humanity may have a problem.

417.  Do you need a spiritual tune-up?  Special service available Tuesday thru Saturday at the temple.  All models welcomed.

418.  “Is it crowded there in paradise?”  “Just a minute,” grandma answered, “I can’t find anyone to ask.”

419.  Heavenly game board:  You are now free to move about heaven… whoops, sorry, you need to qualify first.  Go back three spaces.  Go to the temple.

420.  Is your slope a little slippery?  Personalized traction tires are available at the temple.

421.  Any chance we can dream our way into the Celestial Kingdom?  Dream on, but lower the destination.

422.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s a bump or a hole in the road.  Both cause a jolt.  Smooth out life’s ride with continual temple visits.

423.  A zipper can both keep in and keep out.  Which applies to your family history?

424.  A new, modern, energy-efficient thermostat is of no value unless it is connected to the heater.  Are you connected?

425.  Our phones have both outgoing and incoming calls.  In the spirit prison, they only have incoming lines.  For contact, you have to call them.

426.  The gospel has an open seating plan for destinations beyond the veil.

427.  At the airport of life they sell fool’s gold.  The gold is glittery and the lines are long.  But real wealth is received years earlier; it is found on altars in the temple.

428.  The source of an opinion is more important than the length or loudness.  A heavenly source is highest above all. 

429.  I know it’s interesting, but does it really matter where you lived or where you worked?  Some things really do matter.

430.  Have you ever had to jump start your car?  It takes a jolt to make a difference.  Be a jolt in your family.

431.  Some proxies are better than others.  A proxy for your treadmill isn’t all that effective … but a proxy in the temple is powerful.

432.  What do you listen to on your family history CD changer?  “I Stand All Amazed,” or “The Time is Far Spent.”

433.  Catch some air. Ride your family history balloon for a while.

434.  Exhilarating updrafts at the Family History Center.

435.  Get your family history Chia Pet.  Give grandpa Jones some hair.

436.  Are the Blue Angels really blue?  Is Dr Pepper really a doctor? Is family history really hard?  No, No, and No.

437.  Who’s more dead to the work of Elijah?  Them or us?

438.  If you stick your tongue out at the dead, do they notice it?  Are they irritated, bored or happy that someone finally noticed them?

439.  Is captivity confining?  What do you think about grandma being in “the hole?”  It doesn’t seem very dignified, does it?

440.  To move from an island to the mainland you have to both swim and float.  Neither is sufficient alone.  It is the same with family history so jump in and get wet.

441. You get to live each day over and over, until you get it right.  And that usually happens on a day you went to the temple.

442.  We can’t live in the temple, but the temple can live in us.

443.  If you were a three-spired temple, representing the three-fold mission of the church, how tall would your spires be?

444.  If the three-fold mission of the church were a stool, would you be level?

445.  Pray to find an ancestor.  Both of you are lost without each other.

446.  To be a sparkling personality, you need some carbonation.  Try some ancestral fizzies to sparkle up your life.

447.  Some need extra credit for life’s assignments.  Go to the Family History Center for high credit classes.

448.  The difference between babble, bobble and bubble is the second space in each word.  If you are going to float up to heaven, you need to get it right; otherwise you just babble or bobble.

449.  You shouldn’t check the minefields of life with your big toe.  Use the iron rod strengthened by temple attendance.

450.  Some internet sites, like familysearch.org, reach into the spirit world.  Visit a friend.  Enjoy the trip. 

451.  In order to inherit, you have to disinherit your personal self.  Find someone else to focus on… help an ancestor.

452.  Peanuts are dry and crusty on the outside but become silky smooth when worked.  That’s probably true for most of us.

453.  My ancestors have applied for a work-release program.  The conditions are that I do the work and they get the release.

454.  Inward power is developed outwardly — movement words like do, go, act, meet, find, search and submit are the framework.

455.  The family history sun is bright and warm, but only if you come out from under the blanket of overload.

456.  Cyberspace, outer space and celestial space are in vastly different galaxies. 

457.  You need family history glasses for both near-sighted and far-sighted challenges.  Wear them and get a new perspective on life.

458.  If your family history were at the end of the rainbow, would it more likely be a pot of gold, a potted plant or a pea pod?

459.  Do you want to “crash” at the Family History Center?  Parachutes provided, drop on in.

460.  Come by the Family History Center and visit the old folks you knew before you came to earth.

461.  Do you want to get a serious buzz?  Plug into some family history.

462.  Do you want a front seat for the resurrection?  Have an ancestor reserve a seat for you.

463.  Is your seat comfortable?  But then, it isn’t the comfort of the seat but the direction that you are headed that’s important.

464.  Worldly flight plan:  “Welcome aboard.  As long as it doesn’t matter where we’re headed, this will be a really fun trip.” … There’s a better way.  You be the captain of your flight.

465.  If you’re interested in comfort, you would want the flights on the lower level.  This flight is bumpier but goes straight there.

466.  Based on the past, there will be very few of us that get out of this life alive.  Make it count.

467.  Is your family history more like cotton candy or steak and potatoes? 

468.  Do you want to give your ancestors a tasty snack?  How about a Submission Soufflé to add to their feast.

469.  Guess which kingdom has plants with 100 stems growing out of the same trunk, each with different flowers.  Tour buses are available at the temple.

470.  It seems ironic that the dead can only be made perfect through us, the imperfect.

471.  The only qualification for family history and temple work is to be perfectly imperfect, and to be it often. 

472.  Do the dead know the names of the living?  Will your name be spoken in hallowed reverence?

473.  Do you have a heavenly flight plan?  Do you have oil and fuel?  Is the runway cleared of debris?  Then let’s take off.  It will be majestic.

474.  Spiffy is a synonym for family history and temple work.  It’s a fun word, and so are they.

475.   Do you want to sharpen your heavenly skills?  Practice at the temple.

476.  Your ancestors are not really lost.  They are just misplaced.

477.  Commemorate your baptism date with a visit to the temple.

478.  Is your current path askew?  Maybe you need an “and it came to pass” moment.

479.  Are you locked and loaded for the spirit world?

480.  Have you ever gotten a member recall notice?  The repair work is done in the temple.

481.  I suspect your manufacturer’s warranty says … “avoid hazardous situations or this warranty is voided.”  Go to a safe place.

482.  Does “living on the edge” mean you went to the family history center twice this week?

483.  If they gave out Oscars for the “Best Excuse Award”, would you be on the short list, surprisingly nominated, or a runaway winner.

484.  You can’t wish good results.  The intention turns to action which results in good.

485.  Undone family history doesn’t get tastier the longer it simmers.  It eventually boils away and cannot be recaptured.

486.  There’s plenty of work left to do on both sides of the veil to save this earth’s people.

487.  I have the prescription for your ailing family members in spirit prison.  You go forth and so do they. 

488.  God’s faithful children rejoice in wonderful exhortations.

489.  The kingdom you go to is inversely related to the size of your ego.  Get an ego trim at the family history center.

490.  Tow trucks are available at the family history center.  We would be glad to come and get you.

491.  Can you take your jewels to the celestial kingdom?  Yes, but you don’t wear them.  You sup with them.

492.  No, you can’t unseal the rascals … but then, neither can they.

493.  The Jew’s explosion of Mosaic laws and practices to hundreds of intricate rules would overload me… I’m more of a simple soul:  find a name, go to the temple; find a name, go to the temple; find a name, go to the temple.

494.  Do you want a “wonder” to ponder on?  I “wonder” how I’ll fare in heaven without my dead.

495.  What’s this joy that passes all understanding?  Eternal families.

496.  Spirit prison is not just a state of mind, it’s isolated, hard time.

497.  Between the opening of the 7th seal and the second coming, there will be much family history and temple work to complete.

498.  Do tremors really come in three’s?  Then let’s shake some ancestors loose.

499.  Does your life have more dribble, dross or drama?  Introduce a spicy ancestor to your family for Act II.

500.  In life, a well-used eraser indicates much activity.

501.  Help your ancestors solve their “wait” problem on the other side… give them some nutritious family history fruits and vegetables.

502.  Why does it take a father and mother to form a family?  Because Heavenly Father wants to give each child a double chance for success. 

503.  I want to love my ancestors as myself, but I’m not sure they can stand that much attention.

504.  Heard any funny stories from your family hysterian.

505.  The shortest family history poem:  You die, I die … hi.

1. Set up an account on familysearch.org (need name, email address; if LDS, membership number to see
   temple work); its free, collaborative tree of 1.5B names, 8B searchable records, living individuals privacy.
   At least 13 years old (8-12 with parent’s permission)
2. Add your first 4 generations in familysearch.org. (living unique to your login, deceased will connect to
   individual(s) in database (if they are there). Add children, aunts, uncles, etc
3. Hold a Family Home Evening with family history as the theme. (familysearch.org web page, activities
   tab, In-Home activities) also FS web page, bottom “Solutions Gallery”, “Games” (7)
4. Create a history, autobiography, biography of someone else (phone them)
5. Learn your own family stories and relate them to others
6. Explore familysearch.org activities: (familysearch.org web page, activities tab, All activities)
7. Reserve a name for the temple
8. In your familysearch account, attach memories (photos, histories, documents, audio files)
9. In familysearch, resolve hints (blue); add parents of those marrying into the family and do their temple
   work
10. Expand lines (back/g-parents; forward/cousins)
11. Reach out to extended family: reunions, newsletters, FaceBook, phone calls
12. Highlight family members: birthdays (who’s b-day today), wars fought in (Memorial Day), marriage
    dates (Valentines Day)
13. Build up in others a love for their deceased relatives
14. Index – Getting into indexing. (FS web site, Indexing, Overview, Try a guided tour)
15. Explore familysearch partners (FS web site, bottom “Solutions Gallery”)
16. Attend the temple for your own ancestors; or for another persons’ ancestors; or drive by the temple
    and visit the temple grounds
17. Expand a current history by adding maps, fun facts, photos, rewriting, etc

For Help: 24/7 call 1-800-406-1830; Ward FH consultants; Stake FH Center (by JHS)

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