10 Fun Family History Activities - Class

Date:

Thursday, Mar 21

Time:

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Room:

155F

Session ID:

B2

Type:

Presentation

Difficulty:

Beginner

Track:

Getting Started

Description

Take a fun and inventive spin on family history with instruction on topics like working with photos, tools for indexing, creating fan charts and family trees, and other exciting activities to help you and your family have fun with genealogy.

Presenters

Benjamin Bennett

Ben Bennett has worked in the high tech and customer care industries for more than 15 years. Ben is currently a Vice President at FamilySearch International responsible for helping to improve the Patron Experience.
Prior to joining FamilySearch, Ben held various positions at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington as well as various positions at Convergys Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ben attended Brigham Young University for undergraduate studies and Seattle University for graduate studies.

Holly Linford

Holly Linford began digitally scrapbooking 13 years ago. She’s from Utah, and graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in history. While in college, her fascination with Near Eastern studies led her to study abroad in Jerusalem. For the past five years, Holly has worked at Stampin’ Up! as a Trainer and Curriculum Developer—she also helped develop Stampin’ Up!’s digital designer software, My Digital Studio. Holly enjoys belly dancing and her comfort food is chocolate shake and French fries. She is always looking to learn something new and is excited to help us learn all about creatively preserving memories.