Individuals Activities

I6-01: Four Generations
In The Family History Guide, see Project 7, Goal 3 for FamilySearch, or Project 6 Goal 3 for Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Findmypast. For more info and ideas, see this blog post and these suggestions from Rootstech 2018.

I6-02: Photos to FamilySearch Memories
Help others organize, scan, and preserve photos to FamilySearch Memories. See this blog post for detailed instructions. See also Goal 6 in FamilySearch Project 2: Memories in The Family History Guide.

I6-03: Photos to Ancestry
Help others organize, scan, and preserve photos to Ancestry. See Ancestry Project 3 Documents, Stories, and Photos. Christa Cowan gives the details in the video above.

I6-04: Photos to MyHeritage
Help others organize, scan, and preserve photos to MyHeritage with help from The Family History Guide, in MyHeritage Project 3: Goal 3. See the video above to find out how to automatically tag photos.

I6-05: Photos to Findmypast
Help others organize, scan, and preserve photos to FindMyPast with help from The Family History Guide, in FindMyPast Project 3: Goal 3.

*I6-06: Record Family History Stories
Help others record family history stories with tips from The Family History Guide. See this blog post for ideas and suggestions for interviewing. Also find family history centers with a "story room" in which to record interviews, use 52 Stories from Family Search for interview questions, use FamilySearch Apps to Record Oral Histories, and much more.

I6-07: Teach Family History Skills
I6-07 Teach Skills to others to help them learn to do family history and participate in fun family history activities. See this blog post for more information.

I6-08: Index Historical Records
Watch the video to see what indexing is all about. As you create indexes to help family history researchers find what they need you are performing a valuable service! Plan get-togethers with family and friends to multiply the fun! To get started with web indexing, see Project 5: Indexing in The Family History Guide, this Indexing video by Katherine Grant, and this FamilySearch blog post.

I6-09: Write A Life Story or Sketch for Someone Else
Help your parents and/or grandparents (or others) write their life stories, a life sketch, and if possible create a video. See the 52 Stories Project for ideas, and the blog post Capturing Memories Before It's Too Late. See the video to the left as an example of a life story video (used with permission from the Peterson family). Find instructions for creating a family video in this series of videos by Lisa Louise Cooke.

I6-10: Family History Gift Giving
See these blog posts from The Family History Guide for ideas: Family History Gifts for Christmas, Think Family History Gifts for Mother's Day, and Give the Gift of Family History.

I6-11: Family History Activity Evening
Visit family and friends for an evening of family history fun activities. Introduce and use ideas from the Activities section of The Family History Guide. See The Family History Fun Basket. It's a favorite, easy-to-plan (hardly any prep), adaptable, and memorable activity that works with just about any number of people in groups of all kinds. Also watch this video.

I6-12: Celebrate Someone's Life
A fun idea is to plan a party to celebrate someone’s life. See the blog post It's a Wonderful Life Party for ideas. Video record the event as a family history gift to that person.