Excellent point, John! I just added this to my file called "Youth Family History class and training." -----Original Message----- From: lds-ward-consultant-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lds-ward-consultant-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Vilburn Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:03 PM To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] How to get teens interested in FH? HELP! Recently I attended a family history conference and talked with some of the FamilySearch Indexing representatives from Salt Lake. They said that many wards had more success with indexing when they approached the youth instead of the adults. There is a time and season for everything. For the youth, indexing may be a better fit for their lives than other genealogical pursuits. Aloha, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra E Harris" <sehharris@juno.com> To: <LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:33 AM Subject: [LDS-WC] How to get teens interested in FH? HELP! >I have seen on this site what I thought were excellent suggestions for > getting ward teenagers involved in family history. However, since that > was many months ago and I didn't need that info at the time I didn't save > it. I do recall a few suggestions but would appreciate hearing from any > of you who have had success working with these busy, busy young people. > My husband and I as ward consultants are excited to work with the youth > but we want to start out right by impressing them with the importance of > this work but also acknowledging how busy most of them are already. We > do not want to say or do anything that will discourage them. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Sandra Harris > Tucson > ____________________________________________________________ > Click now for prescreened plumbing contractors. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTRHI9FPywA0iVF3DhoX4LJ1btl LC8f3ZTH3iWzN1Vn9fJ2gNuPbTy/ > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have a program that I present to the youth of different wards called "Ancestor Detective" I encourage them to become detectives in their families; finding the stories and photos of their ancestors. I tell stories of my family that make them real. we talk about their heritage and encourage them to find characteristics that they have in common with their parents, grandparent, aunts and uncles. We encourage them to write in a journal and read some cool journal entries from old journals. Each youth is given a folder with a family group sheet, pedigree chart, steps to interview a relatives, a photo pedigree. there are also sheets to start a journal, write their testimony, and tell about their frends and family. We have a follow up activity where we meet at the FHC and use the filled in pedigee to find their family in familysearch. It has been a very successful program. I have also done it on a stake basis for Youth Conference. > From: virgcazier@yahoo.com > To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 16:25:40 -0400 > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] How to get teens interested in FH? HELP! > > Excellent point, John! I just added this to my file called "Youth Family > History class and training." > > -----Original Message----- > From: lds-ward-consultant-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:lds-ward-consultant-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Vilburn > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:03 PM > To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] How to get teens interested in FH? HELP! > > Recently I attended a family history conference and talked with some of the > FamilySearch Indexing representatives from Salt Lake. They said that many > wards had more success with indexing when they approached the youth instead > of the adults. There is a time and season for everything. For the youth, > indexing may be a better fit for their lives than other genealogical > pursuits. > > Aloha, > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandra E Harris" <sehharris@juno.com> > To: <LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:33 AM > Subject: [LDS-WC] How to get teens interested in FH? HELP! > > > >I have seen on this site what I thought were excellent suggestions for > > getting ward teenagers involved in family history. However, since that > > was many months ago and I didn't need that info at the time I didn't save > > it. I do recall a few suggestions but would appreciate hearing from any > > of you who have had success working with these busy, busy young people. > > My husband and I as ward consultants are excited to work with the youth > > but we want to start out right by impressing them with the importance of > > this work but also acknowledging how busy most of them are already. We > > do not want to say or do anything that will discourage them. > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Sandra Harris > > Tucson > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Click now for prescreened plumbing contractors. > > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTRHI9FPywA0iVF3DhoX4LJ1btl > LC8f3ZTH3iWzN1Vn9fJ2gNuPbTy/ > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009