Quarterly Newsletter May 2010

Sorry this newsletter is late! We have been away on a wonderful holiday!
1. Articles on FH continue to be posted to the blog at http://peterfh.wordpress.com/ every week. If you are a priesthood leader try to check the site once a month and encourage your FH consultants to read the blog. If you are a Family History Consultant or FH Centre Director we hope that you are checking the articles weekly. To make this easier for you there is an option to subscribe on the middle right of the page – then you need to click on the confirming email that is sent to you. So far 50 people have subscribed. We hope that number will increase! Subscription means that new articles automatically come to your mailbox. In addition to the 50 subscribers we have on average between 80 and 100 visitors a week. We are trying to keep the blog just for you in this northern part of the North America Central area – so we can see how many of you are reading the blog! We post a new article at about 3 a.m. on Sunday morning each week – don’t worry we don’t have to stay up to do this! – and the articles are posted whether we are home or not! Remember you are invited to contribute articles or topics for the blog.
2. There is a poll open on the use of the Blog – express your opinion!
3. On Saturday 15 May 2010 the ground-breaking took place for the Calgary Temple! What an exciting event!
4. Work is continuing on the rollout of new FamilySearch to the temples in Asia.
5. We continue to provide some basic statistics on Family History to stakes on a quarterly basis.
6. The largest source of news in Family History in quite a while occurred at during the week of April 26 to May 1 when 2 Family History/Genealogy conferences were held in Salt Lake City – the BYU Computerized Genealogy Conference and the National Genealogical Society Conference. I am told that the highlight of the week was the celebration that was held in the Conference Center on the Thursday evening with President Eyring and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Several special video clips were used as part of that evening. If like us you were unable to attend the conferences you are no doubt anxious to catch up on all the news. To find out how to access those videos and to learn about the news from the conferences please read the “What I learned at the Conference . . .” postings that be posted over the next 2 weeks. We are grateful to Don Snow for granting us permission to use his summary of the conference news.
Thank you for all that you do to encourage Temple and Family History work.

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