August Zone Social--Family Search Library

Last Monday, we invited our zone to go on a visit to the Family Search Library.  When you first arrive at the mission, you think that you will likely serve here because that Family Search is so connected to the Headquarters Mission.  But then you get assigned to the Church History Library and get busy learning all of the cool things about serving there that you somewhat forget about the great blessings located nearby in the Family Search Library....so we decided to do a field trip on Monday afternoon.

Here is the group we started with--
Gary and a few others joined us later.

Plenty of places to work...and if you have a question you push a button on the computer and someone comes to help you....we found that out because Jena pushed it!  Oops!

So many rows of books with genealogical information in them and they are not yet all scanned and some can not be scanned because of copyright rules.

The library has free book scanners which are open for the public to use.  They even will provide you a flash drive to capture your scans if you forgot one.  They also have places that you can digitize Super 8 tapes, video tapes, cassette tapes, and photos--all free just takes some time.

Not only are there computers everywhere and missionaries and staff to help you....there are pamphlets on all sorts of topics related to family history.  I could spend days here, just reading about family history topics.  There is so much to learn.

The Maps area was very cool...if you love maps like me!

The main floor "Discovery Zone"  Here you can set up a Family Search account, find famous relatives, take photos  with a variety of backgrounds, and other activities with Family Search.

Sister Cisneros is from Peru so she loved taking a picture with Peru in the background.  She sent it to her kids right away.

These are two examples of the "green screen" photos-----
 

Jena picked the Texas background for her and I.

This is the photo Sister Cisneros chose
Jena, Sister Dixon, Sister Cisneros, Sister Conlin, and me

I don't have a copy of the photo yet, but Sister Dixon and Jena took one with Arkansas as the backdrop....a glimpse of what was coming next for us......

We were glad that we went and I know that I am planning on taking my photos and getting them scanned before we leave Salt Lake.  What a great service and much faster than the portable scanner we have.