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Not just family history for stake in Austin, Texas

By Ben McCullough

For Mormon Times
Published: 2010-01-15 00:15:37

AUSTIN, Texas -- It was more than just pedigree charts and microfilm at a recent family history conference in Austin.

It included "Roots, Boots and Brisket" and topics from keeping journals, in written, oral and video form, to the unique challenges faced by those searching for their Spanish ancestors.

Ollie W. Hargis-Giles shows off one of the displays at the "Roots, Boots and Brisket" family history conference in Austin, Texas. Top photo, Paula Tarver helps Bonnie Barrington at the family history conference. Photos: Cara McCullough
 

Other courses included indexing tutorials and demonstrations and instructions about the different software and research programs available for family history work. Participants also took guided tours of the stake family history center and received brief explanations of the resources available. Displays in the cultural hall included family antiques and heirlooms and others with their personal genealogy, along with family photos. The free lunch included brisket, coleslaw, beans, potato salad and peach cobbler.

Participants included members and nonmembers of the four central Texas stakes and the San Antonio Texas West Stake and a few from about 230 miles away in Laredo, Texas.

Members of the Austin Texas Oak Hills Stake organize the conference annually with the Austin Genealogical Society, which has helped since the conference's second year has co-sponsered the event for six of the last seven years. The conference started in 2003 and stemmed from the need to get members more involved in attending the temple and in doing family history work.

Also recently, the new stake presidency called several families in each ward to attend a two-hour training on the New FamilySearch programs along with the ward family history consultants. Those 70 families are now encouraged to teach others in their wards.

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Ben McCullough from the the Austin Texas Oak Hills Stake.

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