SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
February 17, 2024
“How to Connect Your Family Past, Present and Future through FamilySearch.org”
Presented by: Christine Francis
Would you like to learn how to discover and connect to your family? Does your family start yawning when you mention the word “genealogy”? Come learn some exciting ways to connect them to their ancestors through FamilySearch.org.
This introduction to FamilySearch.org is for the beginner/intermediate or advanced genealogist. FamilySearch (FS) is a free website that has 12 billion records and is adding over 1 billion records each year. Christine Francis will help you feel more comfortable navigating in FS as well as show you some of the collaboration tools between Ancestry and FamilySearch. You will learn how to attach memories in both FS and Ancestry and discover ideas for how to connect your living and future family with your shared history.
There will be a chance for the attendees to follow along if they are logged into FamilySearch.org and populate their tree before attending. If you would like to practice what Christine is teaching – please bring your phone/iPad with the FamilySearch (FS) Tree App downloaded, logged in, and your family tree populated. You may also add Ancestry’s phone app as well. And bring a laptop if you have one. If you do not already have a free FamilySearch account – please create a username and password before class and come logged in on the app. You should also bring your FS login info. (We will not be able to help you do this at the presentation.) You are welcome to stop by the FamilySearch Center at the Mission Viejo church to get some help with creating an account and populating the tree – you will need your apple ID user information and know basic vital information for your deceased relatives to create an account and populate the tree.
About the speaker: Christine Francis specializes in finding creative and alternative ways to tell our families’ stories. She spends her days helping others discover family and their stories, training consultants, and teaching family history workshops. She leads a monthly writers club, “The Storyteller’s Club.” She has taught many classes around Orange County on how to use the computer and cell phone to build family trees, connect with family on the FamilySearch app and record living histories as well as honor past family histories in bite size pieces. Christine is a Certified Instructor of “Guided Autobiography” for the Birren Center for Autobiographical Studies. In January she begins teaching a 6-week course entitled: “An Interweaving of Generations through Shared Storytelling – A Guided Legacy Building Course.” This course will be repeated in the spring and in the fall. For more information on this course, you may e-mail her at: thestorytellersclub15@gmail.com.
Christine is also a Youth Family History Discovery Camp Director during summers. She has taught twenty years of special interest groups including: quilting, yoga, women’s meditation and wellness. She has served for forty years in various youth and women’s organizations. Christine currently works as a volunteer Consultant at the Family Search Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mission Viejo.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation In-Person ONLY!
Meeting Place:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
27976 Marguerite Pkwy, Mission Viejo, CA 92692
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
