FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCES

Hi!

I'm learning more about Family History. In July and early August I attended both the BYU Family History Conference and the Foundation of  Eastern European Family History Studies conference. The BYU conference covered a bunch of general topics while the FEEFHS was directed toward Eastern Europe. Slovenia is included in that category and the conference helped define what I need to do to extend Nancy's family history.

We are making decisions on the software to use for both the Thorne and Siftar family history. At this time I am using Family Search, Family Tree and RootsMagic as the primary family history programs. In addition, I am using Ancestry, Find My Past, and other LDS partners for research. ResearchTies will be used for planning research and maintaining research logs. Evernote is my choice for recording memories.

Family History is entering the 21st century. About 45 years ago when I was teaching a Sunday School class on Family History, we kept sending family group sheets and pedigree sheets to Salt Lake and I complained about never getting anything back. Now, we need a life preserver to keep us on top of the flood of information available.

Pete