Temple and Family History
Family History
Please anonymously record your temple ordinance activity (using the provided color-coded stickers) on the charts posted on the bulletin board across the hall from the Primary room. The goals for the next four months are as follows: Baptisms 1000; Initiatory 750, Endowments 300, Sealings 300, In-home training 40.
The next ward temple day will be Wednesday, February 5th. Please remember that the Granite FamilySearch Center (2720 E. Newcastle Drive) is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 am. to 5:00 p.m. and then again from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. It is also open on Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Granite FamilySearch Center has an impressive variety of equipment to digitize audio tapes (reel-to-reel, cassette), film (8mm and Super 8), video (many formats), slides, etc. Of course there are loads of computers there as well. The consultants are very helpful and knowledgeable!
Please send me (kmpris@gmail.com, 801-201-6181) or our Family History consultants an email or text if you would like some one-on-one help with Family History. Consultants are listed in the Tools app under Organizations/Temple and Family History. There are many names there, probably someone you know well. If we can't help you, we can find someone who can.
HISTORY MYSTERY QUESTION SUMMARY
1. (10/16/2022) Who inspires you? Why?
2. (10/23/2022) What is a favorite childhood memory of your Father?
3. (10/26/2022) What are some of your favorite sounds? Why do you like them?
4. (11/2/2022) What are some of your favorite ways to spend a Saturday?
5. (11/9/2022) What is your earliest childhood memory of your siblings?
6. (11/16/2022) What is your favorite food?
7. (11/23/2022) What is a time when you have felt the power of the Priesthood in your life?
8. (11/30/2022) What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory?
9. (12/7/2022) What is your favorite hymn, and why does it have meaning for you?
10. (12/14/2022) What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
11. (12/21/2022) Share a memory of a favorite gift you either gave or received?
12. (12/28/2022) Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? What do you love about it?
13. (1/4/2023) Explain a Christmas or New Year’s tradition that is unique to your family?
14. (1/11/2023) What is a New Year’s resolution that you have made and kept?
15. (1/18/2023) What was your favorite grade in school and why?
16. (1/25/2023) Do you have a hobby? What is it?
17. (2/1/2023) Describe your first date, or a favorite outing.
18. (2/8/2023) What were your favorite toys growing up?
19. (2/15/2023) What was your favorite summer activity in your youth?
20. (2/22/2023) Describe your first paying job.
21. (3/1/2023) Describe your feelings and activities while being lost, or searching for someone?
22. (3/8/2023) What is a highlight from elementary school?
23. (3/15/2023) When did you decide what to do after high school?
24. (3/22/2023) What are some amusing things you or your kids or your childhood friends said?
25. (3/29/2023) What would you change about your high school experience?
26. (4/5/2023) What’s left on your “bucket list”?
27. (4/12/2023) What is your most prominent memory of your grandfather or grandmother?
28. (4/19/2023) What was a special item of clothing you loved to wear in childhood?
29. (4/26/2023) What unfulfilled dream do you (or did you) have?
30. (5/3/2023) What talent did you inherit from an ancestor?
31. (5/10/2023) What has been one of your hardest trials, and how did you survive it?
32. (5/17/2023) What do you remember most about your mother or father?
33. (5/24/2023) What was your first experience dealing with the death of a special person?
34. (5/31/2023) What is the most humorous thing you’ve ever done or said?
35. (6/7/2023) What are your top 3 favorite things in life?
36. (6/14/2023) What is the best advice you gave your children?
37. (6/21/2023) How did you feel about attending church as a teen?
38. (6/28/2023) How and when did you gain a testimony of the gospel?
39. (7/5/2023) Describe a spiritual experience you cherish.
40. (7/12/2023) If you could choose any place in the world, where would you like to live? Why?
41. (7/19/2023) What is your greatest fear?
42. (7/26/2023) What was the happiest day of your life?
43. (8/2/2023) If you could change one thing in the world or in your life, what would it be?
44. (8/9/2023) What is your greatest ambition?
45. (8/16/2023) Of all the work you’ve done, what was your favorite task?
46. (8/23/2023) What qualities did (or do) you seek in a marriage companion?
47. (8/30/2023) What is the name and description of your favorite pet?
48. (9/6/2023) What is your favorite personal ancestry story?
49. (9/13/2023) What are a “few of your favorite things?”
50. (9/20/2023) What concerns you most about the current state of society?
51. (9/27/2023) Since you were born, what invention has impacted your life most?
52. (10/4/2023) What is the single most important advice you would give to anyone?
Temple & Family History Schedule
· 1st Wednesday - Ward Temple Day - Perform Temple Ordinances, As Desired
· 2nd & 4th Tuesdays or Wednesdays - Temple and Family History Workshops at:
Sandy Utah Granite FamilySearch Center, 7-8 pm (stay until 9 pm, if desired)
Resources:
· Experienced Consultants to Answer Questions
· Available Training Sessions in Person or Online
· Scanners and Media (Picture) Converters Available
Workshop Topics
· Create usernames and passwords for Family Search
· Download Family Tree, Get Involved and Memories
· Practice indexing
· Practice uploading pictures, documents, writing journal entries
· Write answers to History Mystery Questions
· Add names to prayer roll
· Reserve Temple Ready names/print
· Add info to Family Tree
· Other, As Desired