One of our long term projects is a video we’re producing about the life of William Riggs. His video will likely be the first family member we feature whose last name is not Westover. I was quite young when Grandpa Riggs passed. But I do have a living memory of him. The interesting thing to […]
Looking back at goals set in the past is some times a difficult exercise — especially when we fail. We set ambitious family history goals for 2016 and in many respects I feel like I failed miserably. We did not produce all the videos we hoped, we didn’t do well in our efforts to unite […]
This past week we had the opportunity to do the baptism for Sandy’s grandmother, who left this life six years go. I knew going into it that it would be a tender moment for Sandy but I was quite surprised that it ended up being the same for me. It left me to ponder, after […]
We are looking to engage family in the work of family history through organizing a Family Temple Day in December 2016. The purpose of this day would be to advance the completion of family ordinance work. Wherever you are and whatever temple closest to you that you can attend would be all you would need […]
So I’ve been teaching a Family History class in our ward. The emphasis on teaching in the Church right now is interesting. And the Family History efforts have been no different. A week before I started the class I looked online for some direction and found a manual. I read the first lesson from the […]