Thursday, August 18, 2022

August 2022 Ward Consultant Training

 Topic from the month: New Person Page


Person page Knowledge Article


The Family History Guide Newsletter about the New Person Page





  • Top banner: Change the portrait photo (click on center of photo to change), view the family tree, and see your relationship to the individual, and follow/unfollow (receive notifications when changes are made on this person)
  • About: A basic overview of the person showing family, memories, time lines and other interesting facts and historic context. 
  • Details: Add or edit vital information, add or edit family members and relationships, view research helps, search records including hints and potential data issues, see the latest changes, tools (possible duplicates, merges and printing).
  • Sources: See what sources have already been added, attach new ones, and detach ones that don't belong.
  • Collaborate: Leave notes and discussions about this person for others who use this information in the future.  Notes can be deleted by others. Discussions cannot be deleted by others. 
  • Memories: See what photos, documents, stories, and audio recordings have already been uploaded about this person. Upload new ones if you have them. 
  • Ordinances:  See the ordinance status of the person. 



Top Ten Websites to Check Out


Ancestry's New Photo Scanning Options a YouTube video showing how to use your phone to crop, edit, scan, colorize and enhance your photos.   Thanks to Sue Egbert for sharing this great option. We will have a class on this in the future. 






Using Tree Search on Find My Past   Warning- always view others trees as "clues" unless they have sources attached. 

Ancestry.com Series #3- Searching and Adding Information and Sources - by Nancy Busby.  She had four videos in this series, they are all available on BYU Family History Virtual Class Archive

Christmas Gifts by Marilyn Thomasen. It's not too early to start on some Christmas gifts. There is a handout with this video. 










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