What can I do at a Family History Center?

FamilySearch Centers:

  • Provide digitizing equipment to digitize their family history books, VHS tapes, slides, negatives, photos, audio cassettes.
  • Provide Discovery Experiences.
  • Provide access to genealogical websites using the Family History Center Portal.
  • Give personal one-on-one assistance to patrons.

What is LDS family history?

Family history is discovering and learning more about our family members and gathering and preserving information about them. It is also performing saving ordinances for them in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Families are central to Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness.

What does a family history consultant do?

Following a personalized family history experience, the consultant invites the person to build on what he or she has discovered. These invitations are simple and achievable. They point towards a particular task that the person can do on his or her own or that a family can do together.

What resources are available in a Family History Center?

Access to Computers, Internet, and Genealogical Resources In family history centers, you also have access to premium genealogical websites that you may not have available to you at home.

Why do we do family history LDS?

Family history is a vital part of the work of salvation and exaltation. We have the covenant responsibility to search out our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel.

Why do LDS members do family history?

Through family history work, we can learn more about our ancestors, identify and prepare the names of those who need gospel ordinances, and perform ordinance work for them in holy temples. The Church provides many resources to help us learn about our family history and participate in temple work for the dead.