Season for Family

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Digitizing

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This weeks #familyhistoryonthesabbath idea is coming from the discussions that have been going on in our Season for Family Facebook Group! If you haven’t joined, please join us! We are hoping that it will be a great place for sharing ideas, getting help, helping others and just cheering each other on in our family history journey! To join us, visit —> facebook.com/groups/seasonforfamily

There are several women on the Facebook Group including myself that are working on digitizing! This includes scanning photos, newspaper clippings, documents, recipes, etc. This is a GREAT way to participate in family history. It also does not have to be overly difficult or time consuming. Did you know that you can even scan documents with your phone??

Later today in the Facebook Group, I am going to show you my “station” that I have set up in my room. I have tons to digitize with not a lot of time available, so my strategy has been to create a small space that is set up and ready to go. This way, I can sit down and work on it only 10-15 minutes at a time, making it FIT into my busy schedule.

Share your digitizing tips and tricks below! What scanners or apps do you use? Do you have any questions about digitizing?

Remember, every week we will share a simple idea for bringing family history into your home on the Sabbath day. We would LOVE for you to share your ideas, tag @seasonforfamily in your Instagram post and use the hashtag #familyhistoryonthesabbath

To help us not be on social media all Sunday, we will share your ideas on the following Saturday night or Sunday morning in our stories. They will then be available for viewing on Sunday.

CAROLYNN REYNOLDS

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IG: @branches.art

family history stereotypes

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The Finding Process- Michelle Franzoni Thorley

I have an interesting relationship with family history. I feel we both share something in common. As a minority, only child, and daughter of a single mother, many people have put stereotypes upon me. They underestimate me, discount my abilities and power. I feel family history has had the same stereotypes placed upon it. People often underestimate the power and abilities family history has to change the world. We both may seem meager and easily dismissed. Well I’m gonna tell you, you are wrong about both of us! I am more than my stereotypes, so don’t count me out. And if you have old and outdated misconceptions about what family history is, I challenge you to double check yourself and give family history another chance because it has the power to change your life and also the world.

MICHELLE FRANZONI THORLEY

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IG: @flora_familiar

Jane

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Jane. Jane is a name that was at the top of our baby names list when I was pregnant with each of our last 3 children. But even though we loved the name, it never made the final cut because we like to name our kids after family members or close friends and we didn’t know anyone named Jane personally.

In September 2016, 3 months after the birth of my last child, I finally understood why that name kept standing out to me. Jane wanted me to find her.

After feeling impressed to finally dig in and learn how to research my family tree and find names to take to the Temple, I sat down with one of the Family History consultants in my ward. I’m one of those people who has a lot of their family tree already filled out so we had to go back pretty far. The first person that we found was Jane Elizabeth Clayton. She’s a distant cousin of mine.

Over the next couple weeks, I was able to find Jane’s husband, Alfred, and 11 of their 12 children. The day that my husband and I were able to be sealed for Jane and Alfred was such a special and spiritual experience.

I have felt particularly connected to Jane over the past few years. I have felt her angelic assistance, both since discovering her, and also I’ve been able to recognize her help with certain trials that I was going through, particularly during my last pregnancy.

I would love to someday discover a photo of her and some stories about her life. I look forward to meeting her on the other side of the veil someday.

If you are interested in sharing, visit seasonforfamily.com/share and submit your story. Let’s inspire each other ➳ #selfiewithanancestor #seasonforfamilystories

SHELLY LOPEZ

IG: @goodmorningshelly