Where do I start? I’ve got so much to do, so much to organize! My genealogy is done! I can’t find my grandmother! My lines go back to the 1500s! My lines go back, ummm, all the way to…. Ummmm, me?
If any of the above questions sound in the least familiar to you as an echo of a thought in your head, then welcome to the club! Family History has been a source of joy and agony for most of us! Here in the Ridgecrest Ward we are trying to take the fear out and put the fun back into our Family History work!
Weekly our family history consultants meet together to discuss what we can do to help and then make plans to implement that help. Under the direction of our great priesthood leaders: Bro. Steve Brooks, Bro. Gary Colvin and Bro. Jason Hudgins our six ward family history consultants look at ways we can help YOU with your family history research and concerns!
So what? Does that give you ANOTHER responsibility? The short answer is YES! What we want YOU to do is to pray and ask what it is you are supposed to do regarding family history work! And THEN if you need help we are here to help! Our family history consultants have varying levels of experience in the field of family history work. And every single one of us has met with personal challenges and obstacles, even fear when it comes to doing family history work. What we have each discovered is that no question is too dumb and that sometimes all it takes is for a friendly face to come give us a gentle helping hand and we are off and running!
It’s the beginning of a New Year and most of us have made a few goals for the coming year. We hope that as you set goals in the area of Family History work you will keep us in mind and give us a call (or email us) if we can help! It is our goal in 2008 to help as many of you as we possibly can to make steps forward in finding our lost (to us) family members. In coming months look for information in our ward newsletter that may be helpful in starting your adventure into family history work.
This month’s suggestion is to get a box! And start gathering information. President Boyd K. Packer, (in "Your Family History: Getting Started," Ensign, Aug. 2003, 12) stated: “Get a cardboard box. Any kind of a box will do. Put it someplace where it is in the way, perhaps on the couch or on the counter in the kitchen—anywhere where it cannot go unnoticed. Then, over a period of a few weeks, collect and put into the box every record of your life ...Don’t try to do this in a day. Take some time on it.”
This is our challenge to you: Make a start! We promise that you will receive blessings unimaginable and great joy in so doing.
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