Taylorsville Salt Lake Community College FamilySearch Center





Welcome to the Taylorsville Utah 10-Stake Family History Center at the Salt Lake Community College LDS Institute (Redwood campus). We received 20 new 23-inch solid-state-drive PC's (8GB) and a Lexmark MX611 printer/scanner Aug 2016, 12 new desks/tables Oct 2016, an HP color printer/scanner Mar 2017, and a Kodak PS80 high-speed photo scanner with flatbed 1 Dec 2017. We have 43 fantastic consultants. The directors are Jon & Cheryl Thomas from the Bennion Utah West Stake.





Center Contacts and Hours

 * Language: English


 * Address: 4554 So 2025 W, Taylorsville UT 84129
 * The Institute building is the last on the southwest corner of the main Redwood campus. (Just immediately west of the new SLCC administration building)
 * For parking, use Lot E if possible (off of Community Blvd, a.k.a Bruin Blvd), else use Lot F when E is full. Park in any yellow-lined student parking spot.  (The blue-lined spots are only for faculty.)  But pick up a free temporary parking pass from the Institute office (inside east entrance) or from the Family History Center staff ASAP upon arrival Mon-Fri (not needed after 6pm).
 * Sometimes while school is not in session, most doors may be locked except for the east or southeast doors. So plan to use those doors.
 * The Family History Center is in Room 107 (west end of the south hallway), but use the south door to the room.
 * Location Map:
 * Google Map


 * Phone: 
 * Family History Center: 801-590-7838
 * After Hours / weekends, call: 801-718-9772 (director's mobile)
 * Taylorsville Utah (Redwood campus) LDS Institute of Religion office: 801-964-3064


 * E-mail: ut_taylorsvilleSLCC@ldsmail.net


 * Open Hours (Summer schedule effective Monday April 30, 2018) 
 * Mon: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
 * Tue: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, then re-opens from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM but there may be groups 7PM - 8:30PM using most computers
 * Wed: 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, but there may be groups 7PM - 8:30PM using most computers
 * Thu: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, then re-opens from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM for walk-ins (no large groups)
 * Fri: CLOSED
 * Sat: CLOSED
 * Sun: closed, except when the Taylorsville YSA wards hold a FH Sunday School class 10AM - 3PM.
 * Closure Dates:
 * Wed July 4, Tue July 24, Mon Aug 13 - Tue Aug 21, Mon Sep 3, Thu-Fri Oct 18-19, Thu-Fri Nov 22-23, Mon Dec 17 - Fri Jan 4.

Upcoming Events: (for prior-prepared personal "Discover-Gather-Connect" experiences)

 * Wed June 20 - 7PM: Indexing group of 4 (mostly beginners) per Erica Ferrin (YSA Stake)
 * Wed Aug 1 - 3:30PM: Bennion 2nd Ward Primary Activity-Day Girls per Jill Krogue (Bennion Stake) - not one-on-one
 * Tue Aug 28 - 6:30PM: Valley Park 1st Ward per Janene Alvey (Taylorsville Valley Park Stake)
 * Tue Sep 4 - 6:30PM: Valley Park 1st Ward per Janene Alvey (Taylorsville Valley Park Stake)
 * >>> To Schedule a Date for Your Group (no more than 12), please call Rick Francom at 801-810-4419 (must schedule at least 3 weeks in advance)

Past Events (Find-Take-Teach)

 * Bennion Utah East Stake
 * 2017-07-20 - Stake and ward T&FH consultants training (per Mitch Wiley)
 * 2017-07-26 - POSTPONED: Brookshire Ward: 10 YW with leaders per Debbie Hacker
 * 2017-07-26 - Brookshire Ward, per David Smith HPGL
 * 2017-08-29 - Brookshire Ward, per David Smith HPGL
 * 2017-09-27 - Brookshire Ward YW per Debbie Hacker
 * 2017-10-03 - POSTPONED: Bennion 12th Ward Council 1st half per Michael Winn
 * 2017-10-04 - POSTPONED: Bennion 12th Ward Council 2nd half per Michael Winn


 * Bennion Utah Stake
 * 2017-03-15 - Stake PEC (Stake Presidency & High Council) per Pres. Brent Calder
 * 2017-06-15 - Bennion 5th Ward Relief Society **FH intro at their wardhouse** per Judy Bunkall
 * 2017-06-21 - Bennion 14th Ward YW per Sister Krogue
 * 2017-09-13 - Bennion 2nd Ward Activity Day girls per Laura Dahl
 * 2017-10-18 - Bennion 5th Ward Relief Society per Judy Bunkall
 * 2018-04-10 - Bennion 19th Ward YW per Lisa Tucker


 * Bennion Utah West Stake
 * 2016-12-06 - Stake YM/YW Presidencies per Nathan Winters
 * 2017-01-05 - Bennion 1st Ward Council per HPGL Larry Wright
 * 2017-03-08 - Ridgecrest 1st Ward Council per Claire Dieterle
 * 2017-03-28 - POSTPONED: Bernina Ward YW group intro per Tammy Ferrin
 * 2017-03-29 - POSTPONED: Ridgecrest 1st Ward YW per Tiffany Lofgren
 * 2017-04-26 - Hazelhurst Ward HPGL (reduced) per Warren Brunson HPGL
 * 2017-05-03 - Bernina Ward YM per Brady Thompson YMP
 * 2017-05-09 - Bennion 1st Ward YW per Amy Cook
 * 2017-06-05 - Bernina Ward Primary Activity girls per Janelle Kendrick
 * 2017-06-07 - Hazelhurst Ward YW per Sandra Brunson
 * 2017-09-20 - Ridgecrest 1st Ward Relief Society per Jennifer Ford
 * 2018-01-09 - Bernina Ward T&FH Consultants per Bob Hauser HPGL
 * 2018-01-11 - Stonewood Ward RS & HP per Elaine Speirs
 * 2018-01-17 - Ridgecrest Ward YW per Tiffany Lofgran
 * 2018-01-31 - POSTPONED: Ridgecrest 1st Ward YM
 * 2018-03-07 - Hazelhurst Ward YM per Lucas Carpenter
 * 2018-03-10 - Bennion West Stake Discovery Day per Herb Robertson (not an FTT)
 * 2018-04-04 - Bernina Ward - Sweet Family (5) per Cliff Sweet
 * 2018-04-04 - Bernina Ward - Sweet Family (2) per Cliff Sweet
 * 2018-04-26 - Bernina Ward - Sweet Family (4) per Heather Flores


 * Taylorsville Utah Central Stake
 * 2017-03-22 - Stake PEC (Stake Presidency & High Council) per David Miller
 * 2017-04-19 - Taylorsville 10th Ward Council per Jan Parke
 * 2017-05-10 - POSTPONED: Taylorsville 30th Ward Council per David Miller
 * 2017-07-11 - Sauniatu Ward HP group per Amosa Wong HPGL
 * 2017-07-18 - Taylorsville 19th Ward Relief Society per Sherril Fairbourn / Laurie Cline
 * 2017-08-01 - POSTPONED: Sauniatu Ward YW (Samoan) per Rubina Siaosi
 * 2017-10-11 - Taylorsville Gardens 1st Ward Council +spouses per Mike Funk & Terry Gidney
 * 2017-11-01 - Taylorsville 30th Ward RS per Nancy Beckstead
 * 2018-02-13 - Gardens 1st Ward YM per Kirk McDougal
 * 2018-04-03 - Taylorsville Gardens 1st Ward YW per Maria Van Adrigham
 * 2018-04-19 - Taylorsville 30th Ward Rel. Soc. per Diana Miller - Basic Teaching


 * Taylorsville Utah North Central Stake
 * 2016-11-30 - Stake YM/YW Presidency members, 5 HPGLs, 3 HC's, per Brandon Free
 * 2017-01-04 - Taylorsville 24th Ward YM/YW per Brandon Free
 * 2017-02-15 - Meadow Heights Ward YM/YW per Hyrum Okeson
 * 2017-02-28 - Mackay Meadows Ward YM/YW per Jeaneah Cutler
 * 2017-03-01 - Sunnybrook Ward YM/YW per Rick Francom
 * 2017-07-13 - HarvestLand Ward Youth Conference two groups per Teri Daniels
 * 2017-07-30 - Mackay Meadows Ward combined Prstd/RS @ wardhouse per Scott Pugh (not FTT)
 * 2017-08-02 - Mackay Meadows Ward adults per Scott Pugh
 * 2017-08-22 - Sunnybrook Ward Council per Brent Jensen
 * 2017-09-12 - Roxborough Park Ward Council per Roscoe Taylor HPGL
 * 2017-09-13 - POSTPONED: Meadow Heights Ward YM/YW with leaders per Rick Francom
 * 2017-12-05 - POSTPONED: Sunnybrook Ward YM/YW (1st half) per Nicole Olsen (was Nov 29)
 * 2018-03-27 - Mackay Meadows Ward Council per Scott Pugh


 * Taylorsville Utah North Stake
 * 2017-09-19 - Taylorsville 8th Ward Council per James Payne


 * Taylorsville Utah South Stake
 * 2017-07-13 - Stake & Ward Temple & Family History Consultants Training per Pres. Stettler (not FTT)
 * 2018-02-27 - Taylorsville 39th Ward YW per Kathy Hess
 * 2018-03-13 - Taylorsville 16th Ward YW per Sarah Evans
 * 2018-03-14 - Taylorsville 25th Ward YM per Nathan Mendenhall


 * Taylorsville Utah Stake
 * 2017-03-07 - Stake Presidency & wives per Mark Ethington
 * 2017-07-12 - Stake High Councilors with wives per Todd Jasper (1st half)
 * 2017-07-19 - Stake High Councilors with wives per Todd Jasper (2nd half)
 * 2017-08-23 - Bridgeside Ward Council per Sarah Nelson
 * 2017-11-15 - Millrace Ward YW per Tiffany Black & Michael Silva
 * 2017-12-13 - Millrace Ward YM (2nd half) per Michael Silva
 * 2018-02-21 - Millrace Spanish Ward YW per Tiffany Black
 * 2018-04-17 - Taylor's Grove Ward HP Group Leadership (emeritus) +wives per Sterling Tholen


 * Taylorsville Utah Valley Park Stake
 * 2017-04-05 - Valley Park 1st Ward YW group per YW Pres Wendi Tye
 * 2017-05-23 - Valley Park 5th Ward YW group per Kay Cherrington
 * 2017-06-20 - Valley Park 5th Ward Badger family (cold turkey) per Kay Cherrington
 * 2017-06-28 - Valley Park 5th Ward Relief Society per Jean Wahlquist
 * 2017-12-06 - POSTPONED: Valley Park 6th Ward YW/YM per Megan Darger
 * 2018-04-11 - Valley Park 6th Ward YW per Kathie Longmore


 * Taylorsville Utah YSA Stake
 * 2017-05-13 - Stake Discovery Day (FHC staff invited to assist)
 * 2017-11-12 - Temple & Family History Consultants Training at TFHC per Dave Hull
 * 2018-06-09 - Stake Family History Discovery Day at the Institute (Jon taught 5 classes at the FHC)


 * Taylorsville Coordinating Council (all 10 Stakes invited)
 * 2017-11-09 - High Priest Group Leaderships (and Temple & Family History Consultants) Training (per Area Seventy Elder Michael Bourne)
 * Other Groups, Possibly from Outside of Taylorsville
 * 2017-10-17 - Brother Miller's Institute Eternal Families class - cold-turkey 30-min FTT
 * 2018-02-07 - Murray Parkway 15th Ward HP Group Leadership +wives, per Rick Baird (Murray Parkway Stake)
 * 2018-02-22 - Brother Gunnell's Institute Eternal Families class - 25-min FTT (11:25 AM)
 * 2018-02-28 - Brother Gunnell's Institute Eternal Families classes - 25-min FTT (6:55 PM & 8:35 PM)
 * 2018-03-06 - Garden Park 4th Ward YW per Robyn Hall (South Jordan Park Stake, in Daybreak)
 * 2018-05-30 - POSTPONED: West Jordan River 5th Ward YW per Laura Lovell (West Jordan River Stake)

Class Schedule

 * CES Institute course 261 "Introduction to Family History" (2 credit hours) - taught to Taylorsville Institute students by Charla Hancuff:
 * Thursdays 7:00 PM to 8:20 PM (cancelled after Dec 2017, may resume late Aug 2018)

Staff Training Meetings

 * Moved to approximately the 9th of each month - mid-afternoon (next is Mon July 7, 2PM) - see schedule in the staff sign-in book
 * Next staff party - BBQ at the Bunkall's like last year, Fri June 22 at 6PM. See sign-up list on the desk.
 * Encouraging staff to do training on their own schedules, such as:
 * click thru desired lessons at The FH Guide online
 * attend classes at Riverton FH Library
 * attend / watch classes / webinars at SLC FHL
 * attend / watch RootsTech lectures / presentations or view syllabi on the Director's PC
 * watch BYU FHL Webinars
 * watch LDS.ORG/FamilyHistory Training lectures / talks / snippets by category

Collections

 * FamilySearch Catalog: This center will NOT have the ability to order any of the films and microfiche available through the FamilySearch Catalog.

Databases and Software

 * Chrome Extensions installed on all PC's Chrome browser:
 * Hope Chest: searches for ancestors still needing temple ordinances (see http://hopechestsoftware.com/). Stores results in your FS account.
 * RecordSeek: reliably attach a source to FamilySearch from any web page (including from Ancestry)
 * Scissors Tab: splits the browser into two browsers: current tab becomes right half, left tab becomes left half (for side-by-side compare)
 * FHC Portal This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. Click FHC Portal for a list of those premium databases you can access for free while at our center.
 * LibreOffice v5.2 - a version of OpenOffice (free)
 * Microsoft Office 2007 - on 5 PC's (#1, 2, 4, 8, 14)
 * ArkivDigital Online v1.5.4-rc3 - a program to help accessing Swedish Research
 * Google Earth - helps in locating worldwide maps
 * IrfanView v4.42 (64bit) - helps in editing or viewing your photos on your USB thumb drive
 * Overhead / Housecleaning background software for Safe Browsing:
 * Rainmeter v3.3.2 - for desktop shortcuts, such as to subscription websites that are free thru the FHC Portal.
 * DeepFreeze from Faronics Corp - for nightly security cleaning of traceable userid/password clues (or during next reboot)

Hardware and Equipment

 * 20 brand-new Dell 23-inch touch-screen all-in-one desktop computers installed August 2016.
 * New Lexmark MX611dhe B&W printer (with color scanner) installed August 2016. We charge 5 cents ($0.05) per page (per side) printed.
 * 11 new tables, new desk, and new projection screen installed October 2016.
 * HP OfficeJet 8715 color printer/scanner installed March 2017. We charge 15 cents ($0.15) per page (per side) printed.
 * Microsoft Office-2007 installed on 5 computers April 2017.
 * Kodak PS80 high-speed photo scanner (with legal flatbed scanner) installed 1 Dec 2017.

Staff Research Specialties

 * Hope Chest (Chrome extension; see above)
 * Danish Research (Cheryl Thomas)
 * English Research
 * Norwegian Research (see https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/kb/browse)
 * Brazilian / Portuguese Translation (Bill Juszcak)
 * Family Tree (in FamilySearch)
 * Indexing
 * Roots Magic (Pat Payne)
 * Ancestral Quest (Jon Thomas)
 * U.S. Research

Stakes Sponsoring this Family History Center
The following 10 stakes are the sponsoring stakes (from the Taylorsville Coordinating Council led by Elder Michael H. Bourne) who are providing resources for this Family History Center:
 * Bennion Utah East Stake
 * Bennion Utah Stake
 * Bennion Utah West Stake (the "agent stake")
 * Taylorsville Utah Central Stake
 * Taylorsville Utah North Central Stake
 * Taylorsville Utah North Stake
 * Taylorsville Utah South Stake
 * Taylorsville Utah Stake
 * Taylorsville Utah Valley Park Stake
 * Taylorsville Utah YSA Stake

Resources in the Local Area

 * Taylorsville Utah Redwood LDS Institute of Religion
 * Story of Mormon Pioneers Settling Taylorsville in the Salt Lake Valley
 * Resource Links by the City of Taylorsville
 * Taylorsville Memorial Park Cemetery
 * Taylorsville Public Library
 * West Valley City Public Library
 * Salt Lake Utah South (Tongan) Family History Center - in Kearns (3.4 miles southwest)
 * Murray Utah South Family History Center - 6.2 miles southeast
 * Midvale Utah Union Fort Family History Center - 6.3 miles southeast
 * Riverton FamilySearch Library - 10.4 miles south (see their seminars held every 3rd Saturday 9am-12pm)

Links

 * Current Wikipedia info about Taylorsville Utah
 * Riverton FH Library Class Schedule
 * SLC FH Library Class Schedule
 * FamilySearch Partner Access - (setup free accounts for LDS members to the following 5 sites)
 * Ancestry - Has an amazingly good record-search algorithm
 * FindMyPast - Claims to be "The home of British & Irish Family History"
 * MyHeritage - Runs nightly searches for record matches & tree matches from your tree (must upload a GEDCOM to start)
 * American Ancestors - by the New England Historic Genealogical Society
 * Geneanet - I haven't tried this yet...
 * RecordSeek for creating source citations from any web page (install its Chrome extension)
 * Taylorsville LDS Institute (our hosts)
 * The FH Guide - universally approved online FH Training lessons with links to relevant help
 * FamilySearch App Gallery (all categories in one listing)
 * FamilySearch Blog
 * My Pioneers (a FamilySearch Campaign)
 * Find-A-Record (a great tool, but choose just one category and subcategory to work on)
 * Hope Chest Software - install the Chrome extension to search your tree for temple-name candidates, saving the list in your FS account
 * BYU FH Technology Lab Tools (Relative Finder, Virtual Pedigree, Descendancy Explorer, Pedigree Pie)
 * Midvale FHC - whom we admire & try to emulate if only in principle
 * All the Stories in One Place - searches your tree for any stories written up & lists them sequentially
 * My Obituaries - your relatives recent obituaries that may not be linked to their record yet
 * BYU FH Library (in the northeast basement of the Harold B Lee library)
 * Sandy UT Granite FHC - has good media conversion equipment (took over a prior Junior High Seminary, home of TheFHGuide.com authors)
 * Official LDS FH Training Videos - for Leaders, Members, Consultants, or anybody
 * FHC Locator - world map to search or click to find map markers of your nearest FHC or FH Library
 * Find-A-Grave - an amazing resource that puts it all together (although sometimes under wrong assumptions)
 * FamilySearch Newsroom - Announcements worthy as a media publication resource
 * RootsMapper - amazing tool that shows your ancestors immigration paths graphically (as if they took a jet plane route)
 * FamilySearch Places Research tool - zoomable or searchable world map with good details & evolving
 * FS Obituaries database - from partnering with GenealogyBank, for 1980-2014
 * Utah Digital Newspapers - searchable hundreds of current & prior newspapers going way back
 * Puzilla - powerful way to look at multi-generation family relationships graphically. Can make missing pieces look obvious
 * FS England-Wales County Maps - color-coded. Click on a county and it lists all parish maps within
 * Welsh Mormon History - by Dr. Ron Dennis at BYU. Searchable for your Welsh ancestors bio details
 * RootsTech - the annual largest FH conference in the world, here in SLC UT. See recordings of many presentations
 * DigitalArkivet - Norway National Archives of Parish Registers
 * Denmark Census - searchable online records from Denmark
 * Danish National Archives - Church records from Denmark
 * Swedish ArkivDigital - online searchable genealogy records from Sweden

Volunteer at the Center

 * Looking for volunteers comfortable with computers who love learning genealogy, and teaching youth and young adults how to find their ancestors.
 * If you are available to volunteer for 3 hours per week, we would love to have you, and happy to help you learn (and teach us all) additional skills.
 * Contact Jon Thomas (801-718-9772) or Cheryl Thomas (801-718-9675).
 * Fill out the Long-Term Volunteer Form
 * Then have your Bishop sign it, and bring it in to us during an appointment with us to get to know you.