Choose your level of participation

Great meeting with some 20 youth and leaders from the ward last night.

Both grandpa and I reviewed the participation chart, inspired by a speaker at the MyHeritage.com dinner at RootsTech last week. The idea here is to encourage participation at the top two levels. In fact, although I consider myself a serious genealogist, I sometimes complete FamilySearchIndexing assignments. I'm working to do better at story telling, because I know it is important for me to share share what I've already learned about my ancestors.

CCTrek 6^th Ward Family History Prep - Choose your level of participation

So to describe the matrix:

SERIOUS GENEALOGISTS

• Cite their sources
• Resolve conflicting evidence
• Prefer more than 1 document
• May need to infer relationships

 INDEXERS

• Provide access to handwritten documents that would otherwise be difficult to search.

 STORY TELLERS

• Spotlight specific ancestor stories for other members of the family. It's particularly interesting to put an ancestor in historical context.

VIEWERS

• Merely look at what others have compiled, but they aren't yet motivated to take action to preserve existing records and seek out others that mention their ancestors.

EVERYONE ELSE

• These folks may have only a passing interest in family history, but don't participate on any level. These folks figure "someone else is doing this in our family."

IT'S ALL GOOD
There is a time a place for everything. This is the time to decide where in this pyramid do you belong as you prepare for Trek 2015. You have been asked by the Stake to submit names for temple work, and you may choose that. In May we are planning to share ancestor stories. Will you do that by recording an interview with your Dad or grandparent?

Let us know what your goals are, and we will help you get there!
Grandma