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Family Activities


6. Service Activities

With a bit of planning and a list of ideas, family history activities can become part of your everyday lives and unite your family in remarkable ways. Try some of the activities described on this page and see how your past and present can come together. As you do, you can strengthen family relationships, build your family tree, and make fun family memories.

See also this list of Five Minute Family History Activities for everyone.


6. Service Activities

Overview: Helping others connect with their family history can be a rewarding and fun way to serve others. One act of service may inspire another, especially when it involves family history. This page has some helpful examples of what you can do.

Activities marked by an asterisk (*) take little or no prep time.


F6-01: Cemeteries and Smartphones
Organize an activity to capture cemetery information with smartphones and the Billion Graves website.
Learn more here.    (U.S.)
F6-02: Give the Gift of Family History
Here are five ways to share family history with others. Use the following links for help with Projects in The Family History Guide pages for FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Findmypast:     FS    AN    MH    FMP
*F6-03: Do a Family History Interview
When your relatives were kids, what did they want to be when they grew up, and did life turn out the way they had planned? Record, transcribe, and post an interview with a family member in FamilySearch Memories. To get started, read this Facebook post on holding family history interviews.    (FS    AN    MH    FMP)
*F6-04: Visit a Story Room
Visit the Story Room at a local family history center to record your stories on video. For a list of locations, click here. Also, see this blog post for additional details.
*F6-05: Index as a Family
Do indexing as a family, so others will be able to find their ancestors in the records you index. To get started with web indexing, see Project 5 in The Family History Guide.


Find more activities here:  1. Anytime Activities and Games   2. Plan-Ahead Activities   3. Making Family History   4. Documenting the Past   5. Social Media Activities   7. Activities for Research   8. Latter-day Saint Activities