They have just 2 computers in an upstairs room and 2 very old printers. We had 10 people show up including the adult leaders, and a husband and two brothers.
I had taken my laptop and one sister had brought hers also. She had driven to Tuba City twice in the last two weeks to get better access to the internet.
The husband, Benson Henry, drove home to get his "device" and then came back and got started.
We had the ones who were not on the computers fill out their pedigree charts and then start doing family group information on the back of the pedigree chart, since they did not have any printed family group sheets available.
We will send a couple of packages of family group sheets back with President and Sister Black and some updated pedigree charts, although it was fun to work on the older pedigree sheets, that we use to use on the long carriage type writers.
I think the pictures will speak for themselves. The youngest who is 10 was getting a little distracted with his toy soldier which could be taken apart piece by piece. I told him that his little soldier was like doing his tree. Each part represented a person on his tree and that it was incomplete when one of the pieces was not in place. He then asked if he was the "head" piece and I told him, "Of course" He seem to like that.
We spent about 2 hours, but everyone was able to set up an account and each person left with a pedigree chart with 3 generations penciled in. They will add to it over the next two weeks as they visit with their families.
We have Taylor and Kassidee Huskon as Directors, who did an amazing job of helping the people get their accounts set up. They stay after church every Sunday from 2-4 to help people with their family history. I am not sure the folks realized what experts they had in place until today.
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