User:Beekeepergold/Sandbox

About Me
Family has been an important part of my life and memories since age four in rich detail and experiences with great aunts and uncles and elderly cousins who lived lone but have all gone now most prior to this new century. Maybe I was born to work in Family History and remember so many things and a passion to remember the past and do enjoy the work.

I served six months in Family Search as a missionary in support working with new Family Search.

I have been married 36 years and was sealed in the Washightion. D.C. Temple in 1982 to my dearest companion We have been in the same ward almost all of the years since we joined the church over 36 years ago. We are very blessed to have the Birmingham Alabama Temple close by so we can more easily attend. We did a small amount of work other than for ourselves in Washinghton. D.C. Temple, but since 2005 many of our hundreds of our ancestors have had the opportunity to have the same blessings of the gospel that we enjoy at this time.

We have two grown children living at home. Our daughter, a college student beginning her junior year, will be age 21 in a few weeks, and our son, age 33, works as a cabinet maker and does beautiful custom cabinet work. Both are talented artists and have greater computer skills than I or my husband, but they are single adults still trying to get started and we do our best together to continue and create family traditions. We are two retired unofficial seniors who enjoy our family time together in this first nine months of his retirement after 31 years as a land surveyer and civil servant. We have worked on the house and fix and repair many things that were left undone.

I was Primary painist for several years dozens of times over the years, until sunbeams had sunbeams of their own who had sunbeams too. I am a Visiting Teacher, and substitue as organist when needed. I once taught Relief Society class but was called to work in our Stake Family History Center in 2004. I worked there almost 3 years until the long drive became too expensive to make and also for others to staff as well since our area covers such a wide area 30-60 minutes drives were common. I have a bachelors degree in psychology and a master of arts degree in special education. I love to read especially poetry.

The Birmingham Alabama Stake family history center was decetralized as more people had computers and you could print a Family Ordinance Request from home each ward unit had a designated Family History Center capable of serving the needs of the members. I was asked to direct the center in 2007 and teach classes and individual members in their homes and to manage the few resources we had in our center and keep up to date in e-learning and technology becoming available for use to facillitate family history research efforts and successful member efforts in adapting to these changes and benefits to a home unit center.