Why Come to the FHC?

Here are a few reasons to come to the FAMILY HISTORY CENTER at the LDS Stake Center on the corner of Bear Valley Rd. and Ridgecrest Rd. in Victorville, CA!   South entrance...ring the bell...we let you in...

We have 11 state of the art computers! Big screens! We have ancestry.com for you to use free PLUS a host of other subscription sites. We have consultants eager to help you. There is much happiness in this big room...with people having success in their searches, with people finding long lost relatives/ancestors! There is a good spirit in this room!

Another view...

We have 2 computers that have scanning beds hooked up to them so we can teach you how to scan your photos and then attach them to your family tree!
We have a great xerox machine PLUS a big printer connected to all the computers...5 cents a page.



Here is a recent find for me...
I have been looking for my Uncle Peter's kids...the second picture down shows some of them. I include the first picture to remind myself and to show you that I got this image off the 1940 census of Stockton,Portage Co. Wisconsin.

If you go to familysearch.org on your home computer, it also has all the US censuses. For this one, I used the ancestry.com site.

So Much Has Happened

Dear Readers....

 I did put a post on this blog in October this year...just to announce the Family History Conference to be held here in Victorville. I had been home just a day and then was called back to Wisconsin (where I had just spent 2 weeks) because my mom had died and there was a funeral to plan. I see that the post before the one announcing the conference was last year!.... Nov. 1, 2012!

Well..Since Nov 1 of last year,  so much has happened!  The main 2 events that happened are:  both my dad (born 1926 died 2012) and my mom (born 1927 died 2013) have passed away. Above is a picture I took of the pall bearers at my mom's funeral as they carried her casket to its resting place, juts a few weeks ago. As you can see...it was a glorious autumn day...October 22, 2013.

I seem to have passed into a whole new era of my life now...as some of you may have passed into...where  your parents are now on the other side...as well as your grandparents, great grandparents, etc. and their children...your aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, etc.

The older I get, the more precious each day becomes. The older I get, the more I appreciate those who have gone before me.

I want my children and grandchildren to know who their forebears are.

I want to help you discover who yours are.

Hence, I have decided to put more posts on this blog and my other blog: elijahcame.blogspot.com .

So check my blogs often and see what you can learn!