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This web page:
Reading FHC
This web page is part of the
Farnborough Dyslexia & Learning
Centre web site and contains
information about the Reading Family History Centre.
Registration
1. Priesthood Leaders and Family History Consultants
can register at www.consultant.familysearch.org. gain access to the training. They will need their
ward/branch unit number (from Stake Diary) and a relevant calling.
2. All members in the London Temple District can now
register on New FamilySearch. They will need their full membership record number
and confirmation date as well as some personal details to register.
There are some useful documents and a presentation
that are provided to help you as follows:
1.
a Members Guide to Temple and Family History Work
2.
a summary of
the benefits of nFS
3.
some help
sheets from Bracknell Ward on:
a.
new FamilySearch Introduction
c.
duplications
Many thanks to Stewart for producing some of these
documents
Important note: You must have the Adobe Reader
installed on your computer to view the attachments. It may be downloaded for
free at www.adobe.com To install the Adobe Reader, click
on the Get Adobe Reader button on the Adobe Web site home page and follow the
instructions.
In addition to the above there is a New FamilySearch
Rollout Video being sent to Priesthood Leaders and Family History Consultants
which can be viewed on-line by going to the nFS help centre, then training and
resources, and then New FamilySearch and Temple Name Submission Process Video.
There are four videos to be seen which are:
1. Introduction with Elder Marlin K. Jensen
2. Temple Name Submission Process
3. Questions and Answers with Elder Marlin K. Jensen
4. Benefits of the New Temple and Family History
Process
Films held by the Reading Family History Centre
The Reading Family History Centre has a number of
commonly used films on permanent loan. These can be viewed free of charge by
patrons. The list of films and their description can be seen by clicking Films.csv (comma separated value) and then search by using
your browser search facility. Please let me know if there are any errors and
what the correction should be. (email (UK_Reading @ LDSMail.net)).
Documents held by the Reading Family History Centre
The Reading Family History Centre has a number of
commonly used fiche on permanent loan and other documents which can be viewed
free of charge by patrons.
A list of the type of records held can be viewed by
clicking here for 2000 info and here for 2005 info.
The Organisation:
Alan & Christine Johnson were called as directors of the Family
History Centre in October 2005. Currently we have about 10 staff from the
community who man the centre during the weekdays and ten staff from our church
who man the centre at other open times. We can be contacted by email (UK_Reading @ LDSMail.net) or phone (01252 654911)
General Open Times:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Special open times for LDS Members
2008 Sunday afternoon (4 - 6pm) opportunities for
Wards/Branch are as follows:
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1st date |
2nd date |
3rd date |
4th date |
5th date |
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Basingstoke |
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9 Mar |
25 May |
14 Sep |
16 Nov |
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Bracknell |
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16 Mar |
8 Jun |
21 Sep |
23 Nov |
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Farnborough |
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20 Apr |
22 Jun |
28 Sep |
30 Nov |
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Newbury |
13 Jan |
20 Apr |
29 Jun |
12 Oct |
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Oxford |
27 Jan |
27 Apr |
13 Jul |
19 Oct |
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Reading |
17 Feb |
11 May |
20 Jul |
26 Oct |
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Woodley |
24 Feb |
18 May |
27 Jul |
9 Nov |
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Location:
The Family History Centre is part of the Reading
England Stake and meets in
the Stake meeting house. The location can be found using MultiMap.
Reading England Stake consists of Basingstoke Ward,
Bracknell Ward, Farnborough Ward, Newbury Branch, Oxford Ward, Reading Ward and
Woodley Ward.
Facilities
We currently have
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four film
readers and four fiche readers
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one digital
film/fiche scanner printer
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five computers
with free access to the internet and many internet websites such as www.familysearch.net and www.freebmd.org.uk.
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about 3,000
films
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about 10,000
fiche
Family History Church Member challenges
for 2008:
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every member of
every family in the stake to be personally responsible for their own family
history
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each family,
lead by the patriarch if possible, to visit the Reading Family History Centre
during the next 6 months to share ideas and thoughts about their family’s history.
the centre will be open on
Sunday afternoons to help members
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each family to
preserve their family history in the Pedigree Resource File and share it with
others around the world
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a copy of the
genealogy files (GEDCOM format) that you submit will be preserved in the
Granite Mountain Records Vault located near Salt Lake City
Family Search on the Road Exhibition
The
Family Search on the Road Exhibition was held in the Reading Chapel from
Wednesday 6th February to Saturday 9th February. The
programme was as follows:
Wednesday
VIP Evening with Nick Barratt and the Mayor of
Thursday
to Saturday open to the public with family history consultants and software
available to all visitors.
Click here for the programme
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Last update 25th February 2008.