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Let’s Do Good Together: Big and Little Ways to Give Back in Family History

Taralyn — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:38:24 +0000

Let’s do good together! Whether you have five minutes or lots of time to spare, there are many ways to serve through doing family history! From tagging photos to transcribing texts to reuniting heirlooms with families. This post and the upcoming RootsTech class will help you find a family history project that matches your time and interest level. Join the RootsTech Let’s Do Good Together Facebook Group for more ideas and discussions.

Post on social media about how you are giving back. Use the hashtags #RTLetsDoGoodTogether and #Rootstech. Tag @KeepMovingForwardWithMe on Instagram and Facebook or @KeepMovingTara on Twitter if you would like me to share them!

Ways to Give Back Close to Home

Improve places names on the Family Tree app. You can help by associating a user-entered place with a standard place found on a map. This helps improve the accuracy of the shared family tree.

2. Do reverse indexing with the BYU Record Linking Lab.

3. Upload and tag a photo or document on Family Search or Ancestry.

4. Go through the photos of your ancestors on Family Search and make sure everyone is tagged.

5. Say “Thank You!” Thank an indexer or someone who has uploaded a photo/document to Family Search/Ancestry. Thank the person who completed your photo request on Find a Grave.

Online Ways to Give Back in Family History

Index on Family Search. This tutorial will help you get started!

2. Photo Angels – help reunite photos and/or heirlooms with descendants. From Shrubs to Trees: A Genealogy Pay it Forward Genealogy Group is a fantastic Facebook Group to do this in. Summer Owens from the All Abound Together blog is another great example of how reunite ephemera with descendants. Check out Grete from Photos Without Families on Instagram for examples of how to share/reunite found photos on social media, too.

3. Family Search Research Wiki – many places need details.

4. Wikitree. Help with the Germany Project (wikitree.com)! Add German records to the tree to help make them more accessible to those looking for their German ancestors. You can also participate with other projects.

5. Answer questions in online forums such as Facebook Groups and Rootschat.

6. Index with Crowd Sourced Indexing: https://csindexing.com/. You can choose a project already created or create one of your own. Projects in a variety of languages.

7. Help the Church History Library identify missionaries in historic photos! This project is exciting to me. If you have ancestors who served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 1900s you will want to check it out.

8. Translate records from other languages to English. I love the Genealogical Translations group on Facebook. Volunteer translators have helped me break through several family history brick walls!

Ways to Help Within Your Own Family

Help family members digitize and upload their photos/documents.

2. Interview family members and preserve their stories.

Ways to Give Back in the Community

Teach family history classes at the library or family history center.

2. Interview and preserve memories for seniors at local senior citizen centers.

3. Teach youth groups about genealogy.

4. Take photos for Find a Grave or Billion Graves. Add GPS to gravesites.

7. Volunteer for a genealogy or lineage society.

8. Donate time or money to a museum for family history.

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Family History Instagram Accounts to Follow

Taralyn — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:37:49 +0000

Looking to connect with or be inspired by family history accounts on Instagram? This list will grow and eventually be made into a downloadable PDF.

Don’t see your favorite account? Leave it in a comment or fill out this form:

Genealogy Challenge Accounts

@21DayConnect – A 21 Day Experiment exploring the daily benefits of connections with family. #21DayExperiment

@GenealogyPhotoADay – A fun way to share your #genealogy photos! Join the fun with #GenealogyPhotoADay

@GenealogyTwins – Inspiration, tips and fun genealogy challenges.

Family History Accounts:

@keepmovingforwardwithme – Family history enthusiast and speaker. Sharing tips for everyday family history. Founding member of the 21 Day Family Connections Experiment.

@thepolynesiangenealogist – Want to learn about your family? I’ll help you discover your Oceania ancestors.

@StacyJulian – Rootstech speaker and story coach.

@MsHeatherMurphy – Improve your mental health and resilience through mindful family history research with Resilience in Your Roots. Host of @storiesinourroots podcast

@TheModernGenealogist: Genealogist • Historian • Educator • Story Teller • Optimist • Jack of All Trades

@Treasured_Families – Ditch the guilt around #familyhistory & embrace the fun!

@FillYourRoots: Fiona|The Family History Boss Genealogy : Hints, Tips & How To’s Creator of the “Ancestor Scratchpad”

@FamilyHistorianMom – Stories, discoveries, connections.

@TheMommyGenealogist: Founding member of @21DayConnect. Sharing ways to inspire your children and your family.

@WildeBranches: Family History
Graduated from BYU-Idaho, December 2019- degree in Family History Research.

@TwistedHistories – Musings on twisted & tangled family histories & genealogy. Know your people, know yourself. Make connections to feel connected.

@WhyFamilyHistory: I’m a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I love family history.

Family History Photo Accounts

@FromShrubstoTreesGenealogy: Gifting “lost” memorabilia back to family. From Shrubs To Trees: A Pay-It-Forward Genealogy Group or The Nameless Bunch, both on FB. www.facebook.com/groups/1650356598425996

@PhotosWithoutFamilies: I’m Grete, nice to meet you! I identify family members in lost and found photos in my collection. Large collection of German photos.

@SaveFamilyPhotos – On a mission to save & share family stories, one photo at a time. #savefamilyphotos

Historical Accounts

@TheHistoryGirlNJ – Highlighting US history and architecture. Preserving the past and finding new ways to #SpreadTheHistory.

@TheCemeteryClub – Cemeteries = Museum of People! Tours, talks & photos celebrating those who’ve gone before us. Posts by@londonsalmon

Rootstech Connect 2021 Presenters

@Keepmovingforwardwithme – Family history tips and inspiration #FamilyHistoryForEveryone

@CristaCowan – I work for @ancestry. They call me The Barefoot Genealogist.

@Elizabeth_oneal – Helping you find creative, time-saving, low-cost ways to discover your ancestors and make the past a part of your present

@finlaymelissa – Research Associate at Legacy Tree Genealogists. Sharing family history stories & photo

@CarolinaGirlGenealogy – Genealogist, Speaker, Instructor, Writer.
Helping You Climb Your Family Tree

@moderngenealogy – LDS genealogist helping YOU get started with your family history work without the overwhelm!

@laura_hedgecock – Author speaker and blogger. Helping others tell their own and family stories. @Treasurechestofmemories.com #storytelling #familyhistory

@Livstreehouse – Techie, family history guru, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member, national park lover, pta member, all around busy, happy, crazy momma!

@amyjohnsoncrow – Modern genealogy made easy. Find your ancestors without the overwhelm. Host of Generations Cafe podcast

@genealogyliteracy – Genealogy Librarian, author, speaker, cat lady, teaaholic, &Bibliophile! Welcome to the bourbon scented, crinkled pages of my somewhat southern life.

@iamthomreed – Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer @FamilySearch || Bishop of the Eastlake 3rd Ward of @churchofjesuschrist.

@thesingleleaf – The Single Leaf: researching individuals of the past in the context of #family, #community, and #social #history

@celebrateyourancestors

@bloodandfrogs – B&F provides info to assist those researching their Jewish Genealogy, including the 25,000 resources in the B&F Compendium for Jewish Genealogy.

@genealogyjustask – Robin Foster – Genealogy presenter, Certified HubSpot Inbound Marketer

@TheGenealogyKids – Visit our website at www.TheGenealogyKids.com and follow our Pinterest board: pin.it/j54b3umqb6y3sd

@EvalogueLife – Storytelling that inspires. Let us write your story for your business, nonprofit, family or yourself.

@familylinesandstories –

@inspirefamilyhistory – We provide ideas, resources, and tools for inspiring children of all ages to love family history!

@DiahanSouthard – At #yourDNAguide, we help turn DNA test results into meaningful family connections. #geneticgenealogy

@gwolf75 – Entrepreneur #genealogy #DNAtest #DesignThinking #ServiceDesign

@KatherineSchober – German genealogy

@genKracke – Timo Kracke Ganderkesee | DE | Blogger, Podcaster, Geocacher, Vater und ein bisschen Familienforschung verrückt. #familie #kids #ahnenforschung #geocaching

@ItalianAncestors – Leading resource in genealogy, based in Italy.

@FamilyCherished – International Speaker, Pro Genealogist & Historian, Author & eCourse creator

@thefhguide – We make everyone’s family history journey easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable!

@GRIPittsburgh – Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh is offering 2 virtual sessions in the summer of 2021. Visit our website for details!

Genealogy Conference Accounts

@RootsTechOfficial -The world’s largest family history and technology conference. #RootsTech #RootsTechConnect

@NGSGenealogy – National Genealogical Society. For generations: past, present, and future.

@SLIGInstitute – Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. #SLIG is an in-depth, week-long learning experience, held annually within walking distance of the renowned Family History Library. #Genealogy

Genealogy Businesses:

@Branches.art – Ancestor and traditional family trees.

@FamilySearch – Celebrating personal and family stories of past and present. Come discover your story with us!

@Ancestry – Connect with your family stories.

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Rootstech

Taralyn — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:53:00 +0000

Welcome! I hope you are enjoying RootsTech Connect 2022 as much as I am! This post is jam-packed with all the links and resources I talked about in my presentations and on social media. Enjoy and please comment with any questions!

Interview with Jen Allen + My Personal Road to RootsTech

Helpful Tips/Resources

Don’t miss out on FREE Virtual Genealogy Consultations from the Family History Library! If you have attended RootsTech in the past, these are similar to the Coaches Corner. Sign up for a time to work one-on-one with a researcher via Zoom. You can sign up for one consultation a week now through March 20th. How exciting is that?

My Classes/Handouts

Let’s Do Good Together: Big and Little Ways to Give Back Through Family History

Watch: Let’s Do Good Together!

Got five minutes? Or loads of spare time? Check out this list of Family History Service Opportunities.

Five Minute Family History Ideas

Watch: Five Minute Family History Ideas.

No time? Try one of the 5-minute family history ideas from this list!

Try out snacks from around the world with fun subscription boxes like MunchPak and International Yum Box. Click on either of the links for $5 off your first box!