I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and as such, I believe in the importance of learning about my ancestors. The Church has a lot of resources for researching family history, and these resources are only growing along with our Leaders' encouragement to search for our own families. About a year ago, I was called (along with my husband) to be a Family History Consultant in my ward.
Okay, this is where that terminology I mentioned comes in. A ward
is a congregation that meets together every Sunday for worship. It is led by a Bishop. Multiple wards in a specific area are organized into a stake
to do activities together, hold conferences together, etc. A stake is led by a Stake President and a Stake Presidency (the president, two councilors, and a secretary). There is also a Stake High Council involved in helping the Stake President oversee the individual wards and to plan activities and such for the stake.Back to what I was saying. As a Family History Consultants, my husband and I taught a class on how to do family history research. As I was preparing for this class and beginning to try to do my own family history research, I discovered that through lds.org, I could use resources from the Church's rootstech conference (which is a very big conference holding classes to help people learn how to do family history work) to plan a Family History Fair for my stake. I took this idea to the High Councilman (see above) in charge of overseeing family history efforts in our stake, and he approved. This summer, I wrote a proposal for the activity, which he took to the Stake High Council meeting. They chose a date this fall for which we could plan our Fair. However, we had to wait for the summer to end so that I was back in town to really begin planning the Fair.
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