Personal History

Creating a personal history is important for your posterity. It allows them to learn from you and to learn about you. It is a treasure to those who come after you. You may not feel that your life is important in the grand scheme of things but it is important to you and your family. Keeping a journal and writing a personal history helps to teach others and document sacred family experiences.

I love reading my ancestors stories and journals, I feel as though I know them as I read. It is just as important for us today to write down our histories and keep a journal as it was for them.

I have started my own personal history . It is only a beginning but has sacred memories of my life.

Family History

 New.Familysearch.org, Roots Magic, Family Records, and Personal Research

We shouldn’t do research using new.familysearch.org; this database is for storing information and keeping track of temple ordinances. As we do our research we should use our own family history that is available at home or with family members and other websites such as familysearch.org, ancestry.com, and findagrave.com to name just a few. As we research we need to keep track of what we have in a personal database program such as Roots Magic. From there we are able to compare what we have found to what is in new.familysearch.org being careful to recognize that some information may be wrong or duplicated due to multiple people inputting data. If we have new information then we can add that to new.familysearch.org or correct information that may be wrong (making sure you have sources to verify your information). If we have found temple ordinances that need to be done or ancestors that aren’t in the database, we can submit them to new.familysearch.org and then reserve those names to take to the temple.