LDS Genealogy E-mail Lists

Using the following subscription information for these e-mail lists will subscribe you to the digest version.  The digest version compiles all of a day's postings to that list into a single e-mail message, so you receive a single message per day from the list rather than ten or twenty.  If you prefer the mode where you receive many separate e-mails from list members per day, you can switch over once you have subscribed in digest form.  When you subscribe, the listowner will send you a confirmation e-mail which includes instructions for switching modes. 

I omit non-digest-mode subscription instructions for each list because I designed these instructions to be used as a handout, so I try to limit them to two pages in WordPerfect.

Church Callings

• FHCNET: This wonderful list is a treasure trove of ideas on how to run a Family History Center. It treats topics such as:
  • Writing successful budget proposals
  • Helping patrons
  • Planning successful family history conferences
  • Using different kinds of software to organize and catalog a FHC's collection
  • Involving the FHC with local genealogical societies
  • Qualifying a FHC for microfilm reader/printers and digital copiers
  • Obtaining computer donations without soliciting, etc.

  The mail list also has a dedicated Website called the Director's Nest at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fhcnet/.

  To subscribe to FHCNET-D, send a message to FHCNET-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command subscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary.

• GHFHC-NEWS: "A mailing list for dissemination of the newsletter for the Geneva Heights Family History Center, Orem, Utah. This is a read-only list and postings will not be accepted." This list, then, is an example of an online newsletter produced by a Family History Center.

  To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to ghfhc-news-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or ghfhc-news-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

• LDSFHCConsultants: "Solely for LDS Family History Center consultants to exchange information and ideas, discuss programs and workshops, ask questions, etc." 

  [Note from Michael:  Church manuals list no calling termed "Family History Center Consultant."  Family History Centers have Directors, Staff, and sometimes Specialists in the research of certain ethnicities, localities, or record types.  In church manuals, the term "consultant" is reserved for Ward Family History Consultants and Stake Family History Consultants, whose calling it is to train the members in family history and temple work.  The title of this e-mail list makes its readership and subject matter ambiguous.  A change in the title would clarify whether this e-mail list is for ward and stake consultants or for FHC staff, whose expertise, subjects of interest, and genealogical and administrative responsibilities are almost entirely different.]

  To subscribe to LDSFHCConsultants, send a message to ldsfhcconsultants-subscribe@egroups.com that contains in the body of the message the command subscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary.

• LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT: This list teaches ward consultants how to succeed at their calling. It contains many good ideas for getting support from priesthood leaders and involving members in family history and temple work.

  To subscribe to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-D, send a message to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command subscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use subscribe in the subject, too.

LDS Genealogy Research

• ELIJAH: This list deals with the temple and spiritual side of LDS genealogy. A few subjects treated are how to get replacements for lost temple cards, fireside addresses and scriptures on genealogy research, and what constitutes an ordinance "worthy of all acceptation."

  To subscribe to ELIJAH-D, send a message to ELIJAH-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command subscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use subscribe in the subject, too.

• GEN-ROOTERS: "A mailing list for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to share ideas and helpful hints on the ‘how-to's’ of genealogy. You must be a subscriber to post to the list."

  To subscribe send a nicely worded message to Dianne Morris at azdee@aol.com containing a brief description of your Church affiliation and a request that you be added to the list.

• HANDCART-D: This list treats genealogy, journals, and stories of the Pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who settled in the Salt Lake Valley from 1847 to 1860.

  To join HANDCART-D, send mail to HANDCART-D-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body.

• LDS-DAUGHTERS: I have no clue what this list is about. Try it and see. And while you're there, ask the list owner to put a description of the list on the RootsWeb page which tells how to subscribe.

  To subscribe, send mail to LDS-Daughters-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body.

• LDS-GENEALOGY: This list is for members and ward consultants to discuss genealogical methodology, sources, and spiritual issues.

  To subscribe, send a message to LDS-GENEALOGY-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command subscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use subscribe in the subject, too.

LDS Genealogical Computing

• PAF-4-USERS: This list deals with tech support issues and workarounds for PAF 4 shortcomings. The PAF 4 programmers monitor this list.

  To subscribe, send a message to PAF-4-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command subscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use subscribe in the subject, too.

• PAF-TEMPLES: Covers methods of submitting data from Personal Ancestral File to the temple.

  To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to paf-temples-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or paf-temples-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

• FAMILYSEARCH: Internet genealogy research methods and sources, including the use of FamilySearch Internet. Covers "searching, downloading, contributing, cross-referencing and microfilm numbers."

  To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to Familysearch-L-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or Familysearch-D-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

• FHCTECH: This list deals mainly with computer hardware and software issues within a Family History Center, with a particular emphasis on installing and maintaining a computer network to serve out FamilySearch data.

  Home Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fhcnet/fhctech/

  To subscribe to the mail list, send a message to fhctech-subscribe@onelist.com containing the command subscribe in the subject line and body.

• MORMON-INDEX: "Queries about Mormon Internet Resources, responses to those queries, announcements of Mormon Internet Resources, and compilations of resources by subject.

To subscribe send one of the following, without the quotes, to majordomo@lists.panix.com: "subscribe mormon-index" for mail mode, "subscribe mormon-index-digest" for weekly digest, "subscribe mormon-index-issues" for monthly magazine.