FHC experience

This afternoon Sister Black came in from Polacca to show us more about Ancestral Quest.  It is an amazing program and very similar to PAF, so it is easy to help people get started with their family history.  In any case we shared some time together and then Susie Tracey came into the center.  She is not a member and something came up about membership and Susie said. "Not yet"  

  Sister Black was showing Susie how she could take all the information from her PAF file and create a new tree with Ancestral Quest, which was easy and quick to do.  Susie had brought a picture of her grandmother which appeared in the newspaper when she died at 115.  

  In comes Sally Yazzie from Coalmine who has come for a piano lesson and Sister Anderson is still with another student, so she comes in to visit with us.  She points to the picture and says, "That's my grandmother."  We start talking about what Susie is doing and Sally says, "Oh I have done that kind of work.  I have papers with 8 generations, but the names are all in Navajo."  They are connected and Sally has names that Susie needs.  The two talk in Navajo as they point to certain people on the tree.

  Sister Black and I explain how they can come together with their information, make gedcoms. and tie the families together.  Sally promised to bring in her worksheets next week then and goes in for her piano lesson.  Ace and Rhonda Black are visiting with Elder Black and Rhonda comes over and mentions that their school has a program that allows you to type Navajo.  She is going to check with her people at school and find out how we can get it so that we can type the Navajo names as they are written.

  Then Brother Wayne Smith comes in and sees her tree and they too are related and soon start sharing in Navajo their clans and the relationship that they have together with common ancestors.  Some days are pretty quiet at the family history center, but today was not one of them.

Sister Olson