PURPOSE: This website was created to help anyone who wants to
get started doing Genealogy
and Family History Work online.
Start your Eternal Family by taking the online lesson at
Religion 261 from BYU. It brings together links to LDS websites and non LDS websites to
accomplish this purpose.
Your Eternal Family includes your ancestors, present day family and your
posterity, therefore
I have also included
links to help you strengthen your family under the "Family
Resources Websites" menu.
GETTING STARTED:
1. If you have not done any family history work go the link
Getting Started and read
the article By President Boyd K. Packer. You can start with
yourself.
2. Study the links in
Organizing Filing Systems. After studying the links decide
what type
of filing system is right for you and then set up your filing system.
3. Install the PAF5.2 program by going to the
Install PAF5.2 link, or install
another
genealogy software program on your computer. PAF5.2 (Personal Ancestral File)
is a free download from the FamilySearch.org website.
4. Open the link to
Religion 261: BYU Lessons and start lesson
1. If you finish one lesson
a week you should finish in 8 weeks. The lessons in Religion 261 will link
you
to other websites.
5. Uses the links in
Writing a Family History
to start writing your Family History.
6. The links
to the files in
Forms and Charts can
be download to help you keep track
of
your
records and your
Family History.
7. Create a folder in your internet explorer program call Family History and add
this website
to it. I would also add the links to Religion 261:BYU Lesson and PAF5.2 Lesson to
it. You can
go to those website and bypass this website to give you more display of these
website on your
monitor
to work with.
Some links will override this website and you will have to go to your favorites
to
bring this website back up.
You should also add links to other websites that you found helpful in
doing your Family History to this folder.