August 25-30 - Saturday through Thursday
Saturday and Sunday August 25-26
Saturday is our day off.
We got the apartment cleaned and straightened. Sister Tolman did the laundry and I did the vacuuming.
David and Jacqui Price visited us from
about 1pm to 4:30pm. We just stayed in
the apartment and visited. We finished
our visit with a game of Five Crowns. David
and Jacqui are not game players but we have played Five Crowns before with them
and they have since bought their own copy of the game.
Five Crowns Game
We attended a concert at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square. It was a female barbershop chorus. They were really good and better than last
week’s concert. We talked to a missionary couple who were seated
in front of us. She is frustrated with
not being able to find family members to add to Family Tree. We invited her over on Saturday night and I
volunteered to help her and teach her how to find her cousins. Her name is Sister Hendricks.
Sunday morning we went to the conference center for Music
and the Spoken Word (included the bells on Temple Square). The bell group and in the front just below the orchestra.
We really enjoyed the concert. As always we enjoyed our three hour meeting block.
Monday August 27
We had our mission devotional in the morning at 7:30am in
the Joseph Smith Memorial Building chapel.
This is for all missionaries in the mission. We heard from eight
departing missionaries. Two of the
missionaries were from the deaf zone in the family history library and spoke to
us using ASL with a translator from ASL to English.
This was our first day since we completed our training. We enjoyed helping several individuals. One woman in her early 30’s was here on a
business trip and just had a short time to spend in the library we looked for a
document about an ancestor and found a death certificate. I scanned it and sent it to her via
email. After she left I found more
information about her grandparents and sent these to her as well. She wrote back “This is amazing! Thank you so
very much. I wish I could have spent more time there with you. I’m going to get
started with my research. Very exciting.”
In the evening we had a Book of Mormon class led by President
Fenn our mission president. He has
incredible insight into the Book of Mormon.
We discussed Alma Chapters 32 to 34.
Tuesday August 28
This was a very full day but a good day!! We started with prayer meeting at 7:30 am, lunch break
at noon, left for our apartment at 4pm, attended the temple at 5pm, went to a
concert at the Assembly Hall at 7:30pm, returned back to the apartment at 8:45
pm. The concert was a Broadway music
sing a long and it was very enjoyable.
Most of the songs were familiar to both of us so we could sing along. We both had a brief chance to sing into the
microphone. I think we both did a good
job singing.
I have been successful in finding several research
areas for Sister Hendricks. I have found
three areas for her to add families to the Family Tree. We will be meeting with her on Wednesday.
Wednesday August 28
Wonderful news! We
are now certified and can start helping others at the Family History
Center. We have a blue lanyard which
indicates that we are available to help.
We also found out the shift that we will be working.
Here is our schedule for the weeks ahead starting on Sunday September 2nd.
- Sundays off of course.
- Monday off for preparation day
- Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:30 to 9pm with a dinner break
- Thursday from 6 to 9 pm (on the 3rd Thursday we have the full day off)
- Saturday
from 8:30am to 5pm with a lunch break
I learned some new research methods and managed to find four
more children for my cousin William Affleck and tag all the family members in a
photo that was posted. The 1939 English
Register is now available on ancestry.com which lists family members and their
birth dates. His ID on Family Tree is 9JSG-3B3. Here is a picture of their family except for the youngest daughter. It was probably taken about 1918.
I met with Sister Hendricks just before dinner but she didn’t have much time so
we focused on fixing some information on a couple who married in 1909. I showed her how to update birth and death
data so she could reserve temple work for the wife and a sealing for the couple.
Thursday August 29
More good news! We
received certificates indicating that we have completed our new missionary
training for the Family History Library. Below are the certificates with the blue lanyard that we wear indicating that we are certified to help in the library
I continued research on William Affleck and found spouses
for most of his six children. I did this without the aid of census records
since four of the six children were born after the 1911 census which is the
last once currently available for England.
I was able to do this with a combination of birth records, marriage records,
death records and information from the 1939 English Register. This has been an enjoyable activity to find
more about this family. Below you see William with his wife and his wife Mary and their six children and spouses. When I started several days ago, all I know was William, his wife Mary,and their two sons William Alexander and John.
We were very busy helping others starting at about 10am and
had a hard time breaking away for lunch.
We normally leave at 12 noon and return at 1pm but we were delayed a
half hour as it was busy and there was no one to take over with those we were
helping.
Sister Hendricks came to the library at 2pm and I was able
to help her for about two hours. She and
her husband are serving in a zone in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. I enjoy helping others learn to find families
to add to Family Tree. She couldn’t believe that she was able add a
family to Family Tree using a marriage record and two census records (mother,
father and 9 children). This is the first
time that she has been able to do research and find her own family names to
take to the temple. There is still more for
her to learn and more families to add so she will probably come to the Library one night next week for
more help.
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