Salt Lake Rose Park FamilySearch Center

Regular Hours:
Wednesday   9:30 am - 12 pm

Thursday       6:30 pm -  9 pm

Saturday        9:30 am - 12 pm

To allow our consultants to enjoy this Christmas season with their families, the Center is closed beginning 13 December 2017 to 3 January 2018 when it re-opens.
However, we will be open on Tuesday evenings from 5 - 8 pm on December 5, 12 and 19 and on each Tuesday evening in January on a trial basis to give patrons more opportunities for research. If this meets a need, we will evaluate this schedule at the end of January. Please watch this page for updates and changes.

Schedule a special class at a time convenient to your group by e-mailing the request and contact information to [mailto:roseparkfamilyhistory@gmail.com roseparkfamilyhistory@gmail.com].

To schedule Indexing Training, contact our Stake Temple & Family History Indexing Lead at [tel:(801)%20364-2688 801 364-2688] or at the above e-mail address.

January 2018 Focus
To accommodate the recent announcement by FamilySearch requiring visitors to the site to sign in with their username and password, our January goal is to assist each person in this area to have their personal account registered with FamilySearch. This goal will be emphasized in the wards in the Rose Park Stake and we invite all to contact their ward Temple and Family History Consultant for assistance. We also will help patrons to register in our Family History Center. The LDS.org username and password also works for FamilySearch.

This is the message from the FamilySearch Blog:
"Beginning December 13, 2017, patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free FamilySearch account or to sign in to their existing account to continue enjoying all the free expanded benefits FamilySearch has to offer. Since its launch in 1999, FamilySearch has added millions of users, billions of various historical records, and many fun, new features like Family Tree, Memories, mobile apps, digital books, and dynamic help.  In order to accommodate continued growth of these and future free services, FamilySearch must assure all its partners that its content is offered in a safe and secure online environment.  Patrons creating a free account and signing in fulfills that need.

Patron sign in will also enable FamilySearch to satisfy the ongoing need for user authentication. This authentication can deliver rich, personalized discovery, collaboration, and help experiences. Simply put, signed-in visitors can access more searchable content and enjoy more personalized services.

'A large percentage of our current site visitors are not benefiting from much of what FamilySearch has to offer because they don’t realize the need to simply sign in with their free account to do so,' said Steve Rockwood, FamilySearch CEO. 'They are basically arriving in the parking lot but not coming inside for the main event,' he said about website visitors who do not sign in.

FamilySearch is committed to patron privacy and does not share personal account information with any third party without a patron’s consent."

==== Our next class is on Valentine's Day - 14 February from 7 - 8 pm: "Capture Your Family’s Love Stories"  Discovering, Recording and/or Writing these stories to Preserve them on Family Search. ==== "Remember that we each began because of the love of two people. Their stories have ramifications throughout the generations and will be a joy to our posterity. We will share stories with each other and learn how to appropriately save them on FamilySearch and on social media."

Family Discovery Day  3 March 2018 will feature Elder and Sister Oaks
"Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Kristen M. Oaks, will be sharing family history insight and experience. This special event is sure to bring your family closer together, help you make new connections, and provide you with opportunities to discover fascinating details about where your family belongs in the vast tapestry of the human family.  Registration is free for this day, visit https://www.rootstech.org/family-discovery-day for details."