1. Anytime Activities
2. Plan-Ahead Activities
3. Making Family History
4. Documenting the Past
5. Social Media Activities
6. Service Activities
7. Activities for Research
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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.
Family Activities
6. Service Activities
6. Service Activities
Organize an activity to capture cemetery information with smartphones and the Billion Graves website.
Learn more here. (U.S.)
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)
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.
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.