Reading Family History Centre - part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and within the Reading England Stake - site hosted by Farnborough Dyslexia & Learning Centre

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Special open times for LDS Members

The Centre is open on the last Sunday of each month from 4.00pm to 8.00pm as well as the 1^st and 3rd Wednesday evening from 7.30pm to 9.00pm

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 LDS staff assisted by previous helpers from the community who man the centre. We can be contacted by email (UK_Reading @ LDSMail.net) or phone (+44 (0) 1252 654911)

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

· four film readers and four fiche readers

· one digital film/fiche scanner printer

· one document/picture scanner

· five computers with free access to the internet and many internet websites such as www.familysearch.net and www.freebmd.org.uk.

· Many affiliate software programs to synchronise personal ancestral files (PAF) with new FamilySearch.

· about 3,000 films

· about 10,000 fiche

New FamilySearch or nFS

Registration

1. Priesthood Leaders and Family History Consultants can register at www.consultant.familysearch.org. to 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 held by the Ward Clerk) 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

b. getting started

c. duplications

d. standard place names

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 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

Family History Church Member challenges for 2009:

· every member of every family in the stake to be personally responsible for their own family history

· 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.

· each family to preserve their family history in the Pedigree Resource File and share it with others around the world

· 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

This web page is part of the Farnborough Dyslexia & Learning Centre web site and contains information about the Reading Family History Centre.

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