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Greetings.  Although I have used Hope Chest for a year, I am not as experienced as my brother, Norman Shipp, in Idaho.  We learn from the each other's experiences. Please share experiences, questions, answers, and discussion.  Richard Shipp and Andrea Shipp Dewsnup are power users.

I've recently told 30 people (temple and ward) about our blogspot and the tremendous potential using Hope Chest (with checking each ancestor/relative moved from Hope Chest to your temple tab of FamilySearch.org) and will suggest they browse the following pages on HopeChestSoftware.com ::

http://hopechestsoftware.com/home/videos

http://hopechestsoftware.com/home/install

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hope-chest/gjneklbanpnnjdeddbnkkgeljkhpblhp?hl=en

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hope-chest/gjneklbanpnnjdeddbnkkgeljkhpblhp?hl=en

Basically, you can search back on your FamilySearch.org (tree) and select an ancestor to use HopeChest to go further back or come down to desendants of ancestors and bring people needing temple ordinances into your personal hope-chest.  You can then move them over one at a time. 

So instead of finding people one at a time, you find 100, 200, 300 at a time.

To begin, you should pay for the modern tool (for us it is an extention of Google Chrome, but there afre other platforms supported) which is a $10 one-time-charge, and then download to begin.  First, browse the links to understand concepts and procedures.  

Presenting PASSPORT to learn and use FamilySearch.org

PASSPORT to learn and use FamilySearch.org

Presented by the Palos Verdes CA Stake to the Pacific Ward by Janae Davis

We brought our laptops to the cultural hall, refreshments served,    3/20/2016

Brother Graubard of the Pacific Ward High Priests conducted the meeting;

In attendance were President Ted Nelson, Bishop Ken Behring, and a dozen attendees.

Later, the Marci/Roger Greenwood family came and boosted attendance up to 20 .!.

They brought a young gal about age seven with roots in Norway, worth the whole eve.

Brother Graubard welcomed us and introduced the topics, formats, deserts, and facilities. We had round tables for the ward Family History Consultants to show attendees FHS.  Great to see Sister Karin Graubard is fine!

Time was given to Bishop Behring.  He thinks of temple work and its importance.  The amazing story, intriguing to young and old attending, of James Holt and his wife (Parthenia Overton Holt) coming west with the pioneers.  Crossing the river, she went into labor, delivered her baby, and traveled on.  Can we even imagine and appreciate?

Bishop Behring spoke of the advance of software in FamilySearch; 

And also of the research in Indianapolis Indiana of Barbie Behring.

Janae Davis, director of PV Stake Family History Ctr, told of the priorities President Gazdik has given this work, for both adults and youth.  We can all complete four generations in FamilySearch.org.  For her presentation, she went through the nine task/steps of the PASPORT.  The first and main task is to research and take a family name to the Los Angeles Temple on April 19^th, stake temple day.

1.       Find one name to take to the temple by June 19^th, 2016.       ü

2.       Identify and contact your ward family history consultants.     ü

3.       Log onto FamilySearch.org, using your LDS user account.         ü

4.       Fill out the MyFamily Booklet and enter info into FamilySearch.org      ß

5.       Add a picture, document, story for yourself, parents, grandparents to FamilySearch. ß

6.       Use your closest stake ‘cousin’ in RelativeFinder.org       ü

7.       Link your FamilySearch account to the four partner access websites (like Ancestry) 

8.       Visit the stake family history center and use one of the portal websites   

9.       Teach someone else how to find a name to take to the temple.        ü

The Greenwood family did this by bringing a young friend—you can too.  Consider family organizations, friends, relatives, neighbors, and your visiting and home teaching people.

From this point we broke into groups and logged on for work with FamilySearch.org   And we did have time also for great deserts and visiting.  We discussed future training and temple work.

We will add more detail into our website: http://FamilySearchHopeChest.blogspot.com

Sincerely,  Carrie Lynnette Sims Shipp and Charles.Edwin.Shipp@gMail.com

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Hope Chest "Helpful Hints" by Norman Petty Shipp

Presented at the SIBs quarterly luncheon at Hogan Construction, Centerville UT

Helpful Hints    by Norman Petty Shipp

March 2016

Hope Chest scans:

1. Be sure you are OK with your “settings” for the scans. Review “General Options”, “What to save”, & “Date Limit”. Don't worry about “Labels” yet. You do that individually when you start your scan.

2. Remember that under “General Options” you can do more than just look for incomplete ordinances. If you choose “Needs More Information”, you can know where to do more original research. If you choose “In Progress”, you can find out who else is working on your lines and coordinate research.

3. Under “What to Save”, don't check “Save records with possible duplicates” when you are just starting out. You can check it later when you feel comfortable in doing so. I NEVER check “Needs Permission”.

4. In “Date Limit”, put the current year minus 110 for the “Most Recent Year”. So, for 2016, put (2016 – 110) = 1906. Be sure to adjust it when the new year comes. Put 1500 or 1600 for the “Oldest Year”. There are more questions and problems to fix as you go earlier. It depends where you want to spend your time. Of course, you need to match the “Oldest Year” when you're doing a descendants scan..... Adjust your setting to match the starting date of your scan.

5. I now do only one scan at a time. That means, rather than doing several scans and working on the links of one of them and letting the rest sit and become “non-current”, I do one and directly start reviewing its links in FamilySearch. If you let a scan sit for a time before reviewing the links, I have found that others get there first and reserve (and even complete) the ordinances. This wastes a lot of your time, reviewing links without having anything to show for it.

6. Do a scan of your ancestors first, starting from yourself. You owe them most! ...and again periodically.
7. Then “feel” where to go back along your lines to an “end of line” and do a “descendants” search.
8. Be sure to “re-scan” when a new year comes.... What wasn't over 110 years, now is and available!
9. Watch out for “Loops”! They can be on either type of scan (ancestors/descendants). This is where there is a problem with the FamilySearch data. You can spot a loop when you see “green boxes” showing and the count in Hope Chest remains the same. It should increase. In fact, you can go to the bottom of the Hope Chest links and see the one that was just added.

• Most that I have seen has someone as his own grandson. It is easy to see and fix these. Some loops go across many generations and are difficult to identify. Carefully watch as the scan proceeds and you may be able to see where the names repeat or the date goes the wrong way between generations. “Pause” the scan and look around. Be sure to not click on anything on the screen/tab where the scan is taking place. I open another tab to do the in-depth investigation so that I can continue the scan after I fixed the loop!

• Once you see where the problem is and fix it, “resume” the scan. It will “back out” of the loop and continue on. I have, after a loop is fixed, found many hundreds of opportunities. They were hidden from others who hit the loop and were kept from finding the treasures.

Hope Chest to FamilySearch:

1. Always open Hope Chest links clicking on the tree ( )- see multiple generations at a time.
2. Open several Hope Chest links at a time. I do 10 or 20. It saves loading time.
3. Investigate all of the possibilities individually so that you don't miss someone that's been waiting.
4. If you go do something else before you finish, “refresh” a page and sign-in again. Then all of your open tabs will become active again.

FamilySearch:

1. Watch for incorrect or missing information (usually dates) that block reservations.

2. Look behind the message (“duplicate”, etc.) to see if the ordinances need to be done. If not, you may decide to whether you want to take the time to address the issue.... or not.

3. When addressing “Duplicates”, be sure you are not merging name-sakes (siblings that are named after older siblings that have died). If there are any questions about whether you should merge or not, don't.

4. Known duplicates are sometimes not automatically addressed. You can copy the PID and then, when it says “no duplicates found”, click on the other tab “Merge by ID” and paste in the PID.

5. Be sure to not lose data when merging.
   • Watch marriage dates. There may be multiple spouses.
   • Places may be more complete on one of the records.
   • Switch the merge if it helps eliminate bad data.

6. Fix names by putting in standard format. Move “nick-names” to Other Information.

7. Add missing dates by estimating them using existing dates of relatives. Sometimes this person shows as “needing permission” for ordinances where they obviously have been born more than 110 years ago. By adding a birth date, you open the way for reservations. Use “about <date>” for the date and enter, “Estimated using <spouse's/child's/sibling's/parent's> birth date”.
   • If using a child's date for the parents, the father is “about” 20 years older & the mother 18. Always use the oldest child.
   • If using a spouse, the wife is 2 years younger, or the husband is 2 years older.
   • Sometimes you don't know one of the children's birth dates. Use your “common sense” to put the one child within or at either end of the other birth dates. Be sure to watch the age of the mother at the time of birth when doing this one to be sure she is within child-bearing age.
   • Use “about” before the date. Then for the explanation put, “Estimated using the <oldest child/spouse/sibling>'s birth date(s).
   • There may now be duplicates since you entered dates.

8. After merging, go back to the “tree” view to make reservations. Things may have changed! Other opened links may have changed as well. You can either “refresh” the tab, or just look as normal (but you will see the updated information).

9. Don't be in a hurry. Take your time and be sure to make sure to use “common sense” & “due diligence”.
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