Fresno California East FamilySearch Center/Consultants

On Line Family History Consultant Training

 * Temple and Family History Consultant Page
 * Understanding Your Calling
 * Principles for Helping Others
 * Family History Training Presentations
 * Support and Accountability for My Calling
 * Learn to Use FamilySearch.org
 * Resources for Finding Ancestors
 * Technical Training
 * Begin at the Beginning 2017: Helping Others Love Family History - video from RootsTech 2017
 * Tips for Helping Members
 * Six Steps to Find, Take and Teach- handout from Riverton Family History Center
 * Consultant Webinar Series - Need some help getting your members engaged in Family History? This webinar series explores new tools and techniques for motivating members with Family History work.
 * To Turn The Hearts manual - Leader’s Guide to Temple and Family History Work

FamilySearch & Family Tree Help

 * How to use FamilySearch.org - some commonly asked questions about using FamilySearch Family Tree
 * Using Record Seek - handout from Riverton Family History Center
 * Helping Others to Love Family History - Lesson Plan
 * BYU Family History Library's Temple and Family History Consultant Training Page - videos and handouts
 * Top 10 Things - the top 10 things that every consultant needs to know and be able to teach Family History and to be effective consultants.
 * Discovering My Eternal Family: Find, Take, Teach - Choose a strategy based on the size of your family tree to find names.
 * Helping Others to Love Family History - A resource to prepare a personalized lesson plan that will help a family or individual have a Find, Take, Teach experience.
 * FamilySearch Memories: Audio Files - New Audio File Feature Helps You Teach Others About Their Ancestors

Research Help

 * Beginning US Research- handout from Riverton Family History Center
 * US Census Records- handout from Riverton Family History Center
 * Record Selection Table- handout from Riverton Family History Center


 * BYU Family History Library You Tube Channel

Also check out our Research Help page.
 * FamilySearch You Tube Channel

How-to Resources for Family History Consultants

 * How to Use the Cannon 300 Microfilm Scanner (PDF)
 * How to Retrieve LDS User Names and Reset Passwords (PDF)
 * How to Contact FamilySearch Technical Support (PDF)

Handouts from Staff & Consultant Training

 * Hispanic Research 101 by William Knowles (from 26 Aug 2018 staff training)
 * Newspaper Research (from 18 Nov 2018 staff training)