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 The Fresno California North Stake is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco.  We have been decicated for many years to training our Family History Center staff and Ward Temple and Family History Consultants. This blog may evolve but it's initial purpose is to provide a place for us to publish links to the videos of our recorded classes and the PDF files of the PowerPoint slide decks for these presentation. Our presentation are housed at YouTube in our channel - Fresno North Stake Family History Center Trainings.  These are PowerPoint presentations and PDF documents of these slide decks are located here for your convenience. All work hosted here is created under the copyright of Robert Givens.  The material is free to be shared as long as credit for it's creation is retained.
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What's New at the BYU Family History Technology Lab (October 9, 2024)

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We had a fun tour of the programs and activities at the BYU Family History Technology Lab (just Google it.) The Lab was created as a place to try different and unique applications of the data found at FamilySearch.  Most of us are familiar with Relative Finder but there are a couple dozen other applications that are helpful and fun.  Watch this presentation so you can become familiar with these resources that can be used with the patrons you work with. Here are the links: Video of the class PDF of the slides  
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Engaging Youth in Family History at FamilySearch (September 25, 2024)

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The topic is "Engaging Youth in Family History." This class highlights the new Engaging Youth in Family History page at FamilySearch.  We explored how to engage youth in Family History and the resources that can be used to excite them. We focused on the FamilySearch apps that are available. Thanks to this new resource, Engaging Youth in Family History, you now also have a wealth of resources at your fingertips that you can draw from. Link to the Presentation Link to the PDF of the slide deck
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Using FamilySearch Partner - My Heritage (September 11, 2024)

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 This week we explored one of FamilySearch's partner sites - My Heritage.  It has value for all of us.  We covered what its focus is, how to best tap into the records found there, why your DNA should be uploaded there, and finally we explored the great photo features found there.  This was a not to miss class. Here are the links for this week's class: Recording of Meeting   PDF of the Slides  
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Using Puzilla to Find Ancestors and Descendants in the FamilySearch Tree (2024) - August 28, 2024

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This class walks you through how use the Puzzilla program to search in your FamilySearch Tree for places where you can add people (both ancestors and descendants) or find people who need to have their temple work done. This program can do this and much more - watch the class and learn how to best use this program with your tree. Here is the link to the class recording Here is a link to the PDF document of the slides used in this presentation  
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Cleaning Up Details in the FamilySearch Tree (July 10, 2024)

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The topic is "Cleaning Up Details in the FamilySearch Tree." This class walks you through best practices in cleaning up names, dates and places, other information, notes and discussions, memories and sources in the FamilySearch Family Tree.  The goal is to make our records in Tree as accurate and clear as possible.  We will also show how the new experimental feature "Profile Quality Score" can assist you in finding things that need to be fixed or added. Link to the recording of the live class Link to the PDF document of the slides  
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Cousin Research Using the Descendancy Chart in FamilySearch Family Tree (June 26, 2024)

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This class was "Cousin Research Using the Descendancy Chart in FamilySearch Family Tree." The class is the 4th in our series of new consultant trainings.  We covered the concept of doing cousin research in Tree with the focus of using the Descendancy View found in Tree.  The class focused on the resources built into the Descendancy view.  We also suggested ways to mine the descendants of an ancestor to find people to add or people who are already in Tree but showing their ordinances are available.  Real examples of descendancy research were provided. Link to the recording of the class Link to the PDF document of the slides  
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Untangling Incorrect Merges in Tree (introducing Merge Analysis) June 12, 2024

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 Untangling messes created by bad merges in the FamilySearch Family Tree can be messy.  This class will provide guidance on how to undo bad merges.  It will also introduce a brand new tool that has been created by FamilySearch to help us in this task.  It is called Merge Assist and is an outstanding tool that can really help us determine if a merge is bad and needs fixing. Link to the Recording Link to the PDF of the slides
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