Connecting With the Past: A Young Adult Family History Fair
October 30, 2014 – Cedar City, UT
On November
1 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located on 500 S. 1100 W.,
youth and young adults will gather for a family history fair to learn how to
discover their family history. They will
attend classes and workshops teaching them how they can use the internet to
find information about their ancestors so they can learn where they come from. “I believe that learning about their family
history can help young people be more confident and successful because when
they know where they come from, they know who they are,” says Jessica Burnett,
organizer of this event.
Presenters
at the fair include Pamela Chatfield, director of the Cedar City Family History
Center, as well as family history consultants from units in the local Married
Student Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They cover topics from “Family History for
the Busy College Student” and researching a name to using Facebook and mobile
apps for family history work. The Fair
will start at 9:00am and end at noon with hot chocolate and donuts for all of
the participants.
Burnett, a
senior computer science major at Southern Utah University, organized this
Family History Fair for her EDGE project.
Each student who graduates from SUU must complete an EDGE project. EDGE stands for ‘Education Designed to Give Experience’, and its purpose is to encourage
students to get out of the classroom and gain experiences to broaden their
education. Burnett is doing her project
through the Community Engagement Center, which helps students learn to
connect and participate in their own community.
She hopes that connecting young people to their ancestors will help them
discover the most important community of all: their family. ###
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