Are you:

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• Are you
• Someone who automatically answers, Yes, of
  course Ill do whatever you need.
• Someone who sometimes fills overwhelmed.
• Someone who has a desire to serve the Lord.
• Someone who wants to learn what the Lord wants
  to have happen.

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Youve come to the right place. Lets learn
together.
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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• The family history organization in stakes and
  wards exists to help members identify their
  ancestors, link them into families, and ensure
  that temple ordinances are performed for them.
  Under the direction of the stake presidency, the
  high council adviser with responsibility for
  temple and family history work oversees this work
  in the stake.

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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• Under the direction of the bishopric, the high
  priests group leader (or a member of the elders
  quorum presidency where there is no high priests
  group leader) is the priesthood leader with
  direct responsibility for coordinating temple and
  family history work in the ward.

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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• Changes of Emphasis
• The calling of brothers and sisters as family
  history consultants is essential to the success
  of temple and family history activities. New
  emphasis is placed upon encouraging consultants
  to reach out to every individual and family in
  the ward, a few families at a time, to help them
  begin or expand their temple and family history
  efforts.

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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• Changes of Emphasis
• New members of the Church 12 years of age and
  older are encouraged to obtain Limited-use Temple
  Recommends and go to the temple to be baptized
  and confirmed for their own ancestors as soon as
  possible after baptism.

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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• Changes of Emphasis
• The high priests group leader, as a part of his
  responsibility for temple and family history work
  in the ward, coordinates with the priesthood
  executive committee and ward council to identify
  individuals and families with whom the family
  history consultants could work individually.

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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• Changes in Organization
• The positions of stake family history consultant,
  ward family history consultant, and family
  history center staff have been discontinued.
  These positions have been combined into a single
  ward position called family history consultant.
  Family history centers will be staffed by
  consultants from wards within the stake or stakes
  in which the centers exist. Consultants may also
  provide family history training as assigned.

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THE NEW CHURCH HANDBOOK

• Changes in Organization
• The positions of ward family history extraction
  director and ward family history record
  extraction workers have been discontinued. Family
  record extraction callings are stake callings.
  Those serving as family record extraction
  directors, assistant directors, and extraction
  workers are now called by or under the direction
  of the stake presidency.

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Stake Presidency FH Responsibilities
Family History on the Stake Level

• Oversees Temple Family History work in the
  Stake, as outlined in the Stake Administration
  section of Book 1.
• Assigns one or more High Councilors who are
  members of the Stake Melchizedek Priesthood
  committee to help oversee Temple Family History
  work.

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High Council Adviser FH Responsibilities
Family History on the Stake Level

• Becomes knowledgeable in Temple Family History
  work assists the Stake Presidency in
  instructing other leaders members.
• Instructs High Priests Group and Elders Quorum
  leaders in their Temple Family History
  Responsibilities.
• Ensures that the Stake, Wards, Quorums are
  organized to do Temple FH work.

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High Council Adviser FH Responsibilities
Family History on the Stake Level

• Meets regularly with the Stake Presidency to
  report on Temple FH work and to receive
  counsel.
• Recommends when the Stake should participate in
  the Family Record Extraction Program oversees
  the program.

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High Council Adviser FH Responsibilities
Family History on the Stake Level

• Recommends the establishment placement of
  Family History Centers.
• Recommends individuals to be called as family
  history center directors, family records
  extraction directors, and extraction workers.
• Oversees the operation of Family History Centers
  Family Record Extraction Programs through those
  called as directors.

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High Council Adviser FH Responsibilities
Family History on the Stake Level

• Makes assignments to wards to provide family
  history consultants to staff each family history
  center in the stake.
• Reviews Family History Center audits and works
  with directors to ensure compliance with policy
  financial controls.

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STAKE STRUCTURE
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Family History on a Ward Level
BISHOPRIC

• Oversees temple Family History work in the
  Ward.
• Responsibilities outlined in the Ward
  Administration section Book 1.

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Family History on a Ward Level
High Priests Group Leader

• Coordinates temple family history work in the
  ward.
• Reports on temple family history activity in
  the Priesthood Executive Committee and Ward
  Council Meetings and receives direction from the
  Bishopric.

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Family History on a Ward Level
High Priests Group Leader

• Works with the Priesthood Executive Committee
  Ward Council to identify individuals and families
  that family history consultants could work with
  individually.

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Family History on a Ward Level
High Priests Group Leader

• Ensures that enough family history consultants
  are called to meet the needs of the ward,
  including those needed to fulfill the wards
  assignment to support the Family History Center
  in the Stake.

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Family History on a Ward Level
High Priests Group Leader

• Helps consultants fulfill their
  responsibilities.
• Recommends individuals to serve as family record
  extraction workers.

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WARD STRUCTURE
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Family History Consultants most important role
is to
Help members prepare names to do Temple Work
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Qualities needed for a FH Consultant

• Comfortable with the computers and the Internet
  (or willing to learn) and able to help others.
• Should be skilled teachers who work and
  communicate well with members. They would be
  proactive in contacting members and helping in
  their homes, and are able to help people feel
  capable.

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Qualities needed for a FH Consultant

• Have a testimony of Family History and Temple
  work.
• Need to handle personal family information with
  sensitivity.
• Need not be an expert in Family History Research
  but willing to learn.

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Duties of FH Consultants

• Work with Members to begin or continue their
  family history work.
• Focus on those individuals or families suggested
  by the high priest group leader through the ward
  council priesthood executive committee.
• Where possible, meet with members in their homes.
  For this reason it is best if consultants work as
  teams. These could be married couples or single
  members of the same sex.

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Duties of FH Consultants

• Help members who do not have access to computers
  or are uncomfortable using computers prepare and
  submit family information for temple work.
• Meet with new members to explain the doctrines of
  redemption for the dead. Help new members
  identify deceased ancestors and go to the temple
  to receive baptisms and confirmations for them.

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SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS

• Teach Family History Sunday School Class as asked
  by the Bishop.
• Work at a Family History Center.
• Be a Trainer for Family History Consultants in
  the Wards.
• Work with New Members. Teach the new member
  Discussion 5 - Redeeming the Dead.
• Give Technical Support to members who need help
  downloading PAF, getting registered at
  FamilySearch Internet and help in using the
  Internet for Family History Research.

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Online Training Available on the Internet
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For Priesthood Leaders
Go to lds.org
See August 2006 Ensign News of the Church Web
Site Provides Family History Tools for Priesthood
Leaders
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For Priesthood Leaders
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For Priesthood Leaders
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For Priesthood Leaders
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FH ConsultantsREGISTER at

• http//consultant.familysearch.org
• You will need your membership number and your
  unit number

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Great Things ComingFrom Elder Marvin K. Jensens
BYU FH Genealogy Conference Opening Address
held Aug. 2006

• Common Pedigree at New FamilySearch.org
  enabling collaboration with others and preparing
  names for temple work online, eliminating
  duplication of work.
• Family History Support for Members when where
  they need it.
• Family History Consultants on Ward level
• Area Support Centers
• Worldwide Support

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Great Things ComingFrom Elder Marvin K. Jensens
BYU FH Genealogy Conference Opening Address
held Aug. 2006

• Make the Churchs vast collection of family
  history-related records available over the
  Internet.
• Digitizing the Microfilm
• Using Digital Cameras to film archive collections
• Creating Indexes of the records using
  FamilySearch Indexing
• Link indexes directly to the digital images of
  records
• Allow indexers to participate in extraction work
  in the convenience of their own homes, any time
  of day with as little time commitment as thirty
  minutes a week.
• Online Research Assistance.

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Now, seeing that I know these things, why
should I desire more than to perform the work to
which I have been called? --
Alma 296
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Thus within the discipleship allotted to us, we
are to overcome the world to finish the work we
personally have been given to do to be able to
partake of a bitter cup without becoming bitter
to experience pouring out our souls to let our
wills increasingly be swallowed up in the will of
the Father to acknowledgetough though the
tutoring trialsthat, indeed, "All these things
shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy
good (DC 1227) and to plow enduringly to the
end of the furrowall the while glorifying Him
and using the matchless gifts He has given us,
including, one day, all that He has (DC 8438).
-- Elder
Neal A. Maxwell
April 2001 General Conference
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"Your faith will perform miracles, especially
when you get your hands and feet involved." --
Spencer W. Kimball
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"Great are our blessings. Tremendous is our
responsibility. Let us get on our knees and plead
with the Lord for direction. Then let us stand on
our feet, square
up our shoulders, and march forward without fear
to enlarge among people everywhere the
righteousness of the Lord."
--Gordon B. Hinckley
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Let me assure you that these are principles in
relation to the dead and the living that cannot
be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our
salvation. For their salvation is necessary and
essential to our salvation, asthey without us
cannot be made perfect neither can we without
our dead be made perfect. -
Joseph Smith
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This is my Work and my Glory is to bring to pass
the immortality and eternal life of man.