A happy buzzing in the Library

I really enjoyed Friday the 9th of August as we had a group of youth come in the morning and afternoon. The first group did research and founds family names for the temple. The second group learned how to do indexing. It made for a busy day that passed quickly.
Note: I worked with the very basic beginners since I am barely ahead of them. I am still learnign all the ins and out of the programs and record searching.

this is from my Training Sister's blog
"The teens were broken up into groups according to their skill levels. I actually worked with the OWLS (moderately advanced). Nearly the entire staff was involved with the teens. The ones in this picture w are Sister D, Sister N , then Sister M my trainer and  Elder N. — at Los Angeles FamilySearch Library"
It was the busiest Friday I've had in the Familysearch Library. We hosted a large church youth group from Lancaster, CA. Almost 60 in all.Some kids didn't look enthused when they arrived. But I think everyone had a fun time. And most learned more about their own family. 
Quick incident: One kid had a fan chart that was complete except for one spot from a great grandfather backwards. When I asked if they needed help finding him, the kid said that they hadn't filled him in yet because they just found out his name through DNA testing.The ancestor was Native American. They were so excited to find out more about their heritage. Hope I was successful in getting them started.
Another teen was showing friends a list of ancestors that went back many centuries and included some famous people. After that, it was a little hard to get others to look for "ordinary" ancestors. 
We were supposed to be teaching them. But, these teens were also good at teaching each others.. Give kids computers and they suddenly become family history geniuses. It was amazing!

Click on photos to see explanations."

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