1. Song "Families Can be Together Forever" Children's Songbook)Prayer
2. Make a question holder(box, jar, can, etc.)copy these questions for your family to pull out of the question holder.
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1. Why do members of our church do genealogy?
(answer: Why do members of The Church do genealogy? We don't believe that life ends at death. We believe our spirits go to a spirit world where they continue to learn while waiting for the Resurrection and Final Judgment.
We love our family members, the ones that are here and the ones that lived before who have passed on to the other side who may not have had the gospel presented to them while on earth. We believe that the ordinances that the Savior told us to do must be done, and we do them in the holy temples. This gives our ancestors an opportunity to make it back to Heavenly father and His Kingdom. In order for us to do that work we need to find our ancestors. They have all left clues to where they were. We have to search for those clues.
The church also believes that those who have died can be eternally united with our families. So the song we sing ,"Families can be together Forever", is true. Our whole family can be together forever. Grandma's Grandpa's and great greats.....
2. What is genealogy?
In order for us to do the work, and make the covenants for our ancestors, we have to find them. This is what is concidered, "doing genealogy". The Church has gathered genealogical records from all over the world. They are available at, "Family History Centers™ throughout the world. To find yours go to this site.
List of Family History centers
3. What is a pedigree chart?
4. When should we do our genealogy?(Some people do there genealogy research once a year, some once a month, some once a week on a special day and time, some at a certain time every day. Its up to you. You may want to set a time that you could do research as a family.)
5. How can we find our ancestors?
What Can I Do First?
Steps to starting your genealogy...
Steps to starting your genealogy
6. What is a family tree?
(A family tree is a pedigree chart or a drawing of a tree that has all of your ancestors in the branches. Making a family tree with ancestors pictures is always a fun family night activity.)
7. Even if someone else in your family is
doing your genealogy, should you still do
it?(People never can do it all. It is impossible for one person to do it all. It would take more than a life time to do it all. So everyone should pitch in in the family, and take a few names.)
8. Why do we go to the temple?("Temples are of central importance to the eternal happiness of the family. Members of our church believe that temples are the literal House of The Lord. These beautiful places are where faithful Latter Day Saints participate in these sacred, holy ordinances. Here is where families are sealed together for time and all eternity.
Read this, excerpt, taken from the DEDICATION OF THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE
(Dedicated by President Wilford Woodruff, 6 April 1893)
"O Thou God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whose God Thou delightest to be called, we thank Thee with all the fervor of overflowing gratitude that Thou hast revealed the powers by which the hearts of the children are being turned to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to the children, that the sons of men, in all their generations can be made partakers of the glories and joys of the kingdom of heaven. Confirm upon us the spirit of Elijah, we pray Thee, that we may thus redeem our dead and also connect ourselves with our fathers who have passed behind the veil,and furthermore seal up our dead to come forth in the first resurrection, that we who dwell on the earth may be bound to those who dwell in heaven. We thank Thee for their sake who have finished their work in mortality, as well as for our own, that the prison doors have been opened, that deliverance has been proclaimed to the captive, and the bonds have been loosened from those who were bound. We praise Thee that our fathers, from last to first, from now, back to the beginning, can be united with us in indissoluble links, welded by the Holy Priesthood, and that as one great family united in Thee and cemented by Thy power we shall together stand before Thee, and by the power of the atoning blood of Thy Son be delivered from all evil, be saved and sanctified, exalted and glorified. Wilt Thou also permit holy messengers to visit us within these sacred walls and make known unto us with regard to the work we should perform in behalf of our dead. And, as Thou has inclined the hearts of many who have not yet entered into covenant with Thee to search out their progenitors, and in so doing they have traced the ancestry of many of Thy Saints, we pray Thee that Thou wilt increase this desire in their bosoms, that they may in this way aid in the accomplishment of Thy work. Bless them, we pray Thee, in their labors, that they may not fall into errors in preparing their genealogies; and furthermore, we ask Thee to open before them new avenues of information, and place in their hands the records of the past, that their work may not only be correct but complete also."
(DEDICATION OF THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE
Dedicated by President Wilford Woodruff, 6 April 1893)
10. Who are our ancestors?(They are the people who we call granparents and great grandparent and great great grandparents.. All the way back to Adam and Eve)
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3. Song, "Because I Have Been Given Much" (LDS Hymnbook) Prayer
