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October Semi-Annual Meeting

THOMAS TOLMAN FAMILY ORGANIZATION

Semi-annual Meeting

Family Research Center-Bountiful

Oct 20, 2012 1:00 pm

PRESIDING & CONDUCTING: John Tolman, President

OPENING PRAYER: Tonga Titcomb

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS: John Tolman, President

BUSINESS:

Discussion of getting young people to pay dues. Problems with the last magazine going out to all it should have on email.

THOSE IN ATTENDANCE & VOLUNTEER HOURS: 23 in attendance 147 hours

MINUTES :

FINANCIAL REPORT: presented by Treasurer, Barbara L Tolman, and is attached

RESEARCH REPORT: presented by Genealogist, Loraine Tolman Pace and is attached.

INTRODUCTION OF GUEST SPEAKER: Wife of Ben Baker

GUEST SPEAKERS: Ben Baker – working on Family Tree

Ben gave a whirlwind tour of Family Tree. He discussed the Learning Resources that are available, indexing, blogs and how to get help. A list of web sites was reviewed and is included with the minutes.

Right now to get into Family Tree you have to be invited but soon it will be available to everyone. He encouraged all to go to Family Tree training. These are some of the characteristics of Family Tree:

1. Replaces New Family Search
2. Ability to attach sources
3. Can edit data/relationships others contributed
4. Flag no-matching duplicate people
5. Provide justification for all changes
6. Change history-can restore previous edits

Ben then demonstrated how each one of these possibilities works.

Take some time to look over his presentation and handout. 

CLOSING PRAYER: Glen Tonge 

October Semi-Annual Meeting

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THOMAS TOLMAN FAMILY ORGANIZATION

Semi-Annual Meeting October 15, 2011

Bountiful Family Center at 1:00 PM

PRESIDING: John Tolman

INVOCATION: Joan Tolman

THOSE IN ATTENDANCE: Barbara Tolman 20, Tom Tolman 12, Kathy Jones 80, Elese Elwood, Jessica Elwood, Bud Pace, Kristie T. Pitts 3, Jake Howlett, Beth Snider, Katie Madsen, Tonga S. Titcomb, Gerald O. Tolman, Ruth Ann Tolman Baker, Merrrola Black, Loraine Pace 280, Joan Tolman, Shirlene Tolman, Loraine Pace, John Tolman, Trent Larson 1, Janis T. Newton 3.

MINUTES READ BY: Janis Tolman Newton (Approved)

FINANCIAL REPORT: Barbara L. Tolman (Attached)

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE OR REMARKS: John Tolman

FACILITIES REPORT: Tricia Leslie

REPORTS OF BOARD MEMBERS:

CYRUS LINE: Kristie Tolman Pitts

JUDSON LINE: Tonga Titcomb

BENJAMIN LINE: Dawine T, Mills Johnson

GENEALOGIST: Loraine Tolman Pace (Attached)

TEMPLE READY: Glen Tonge

PUBLICATION EDITOR: Tom Tolman

INTERNET REPORT: Trent Larson

GUEST SPEAKER: Blair Keddington: Project Manager: Family Search

They want to make the site more user friendly. Work together more as a family rather than working as one. He showed the history of Family Search from the beginning. Goal is to have all people able to use and work on system by mid-year 2012. He was very interesting and knowledgeable.

BENEDICTION: John Tolman

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Research Report

A. Research Progress: 

• 1. We are close to wrapping up some lines (Belgraves, Strutts, Frosts, Taylors, etc.)
• 2. Harder to research in England in the early 1600s & 1500s, as records are so sketchy (christenings of children without mention of either parent) or damaged ( Earliest documented thus far are marriages of 12th gg parents John and Ellen Frost md. 25 Apr 1538 in Somerton, Suffolk, England and 12th ggparents Richard Belgrave and Elizabeth Hadelstone md. 25 Jan 1544, in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England.

B. Editing of Journals of Thomas Briggs, father of Emma and Mary Ann Briggs who marry Jaren Tolman, son of Judson Tolman. (Slow, laborious process to make it readable)
 
C. As I listened to: Elder David A. Bednar, of the Quorum of the Twelve - Saturday afternoon Conference Session, I thought how pleased my father would be.    When I was a senior in high school my father got permission to teach genealogical research at the Bountiful Seminary as one of the class choicest for the seminary students. The success of those classes prompted him to prepare a proposed course outline to submit to the Church Education System for approval to have genealogy taught at other seminaries. I have a copy of that proposal. He believed long before Elder Bednar said it that the youth of the church should be doing family research and temple work. He felt most of us wait until we have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peeling before we begin taking this work seriously. We had regular temple excursions as seminary students to do baptisms for the dead with our teachers doing the officiating. Others didn’t have father’s vision so, to my knowledge, the Bountiful Seminary was the only one to ever offer a class in genealogical research for the youth.
Elder Bednar:
“The youth of the rising generation have a key role to play in the work of salvation,
"...as members of Christ's restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to search out our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel....
"I now invite the attention of the young women and the young men and children of the rising generation as I emphasize the importance of the Spirit of Elijah in your lives today.
... Many of you may think family history work is to be performed primarily by older people," he said. "But I know of no age limit described in the scriptures or guidelines announced by Church leaders restricting this important service to mature adults. You are sons and daughters of God, children of the covenant and builders of the kingdom. You need not wait until you reach an arbitrary age to fulfill your responsibility to assist in the work of salvation for the human family....
"It is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet, to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord — not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation....
"My beloved young brothers and sisters, family history is not simply an interesting program or activity sponsored by the Church; rather, it is a vital part of the work of salvation and exaltation. You have been prepared for this day and to build up of the kingdom of God."
Church News • WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 8,2011
 

• 1. Parents and leaders, please help your children and youth to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. But do not overly program this endeavor or provide too much detailed information or training. Invite young people to explore, to experiment, and to learn for themselves
• 2. Any young person can do what I am suggesting, using the modules available at
• lds.org/familyhistoryyouth.
• 3. Commit yourself to using research logs, and to documenting AS YOU GO! (It is a
• challenge even to do it later the same day, if adequate notes have not been taken.) Apply the Genealogical Proof Standard to at least one family and decide if it helps enough to
• continue using it...(especially important to use with immigrant ancestor)
• 4. Use new.familysearch to get leads and for checking and completing temple work
• 5. Use familysearch to find resources to prove the records you are working on so our records are true and acceptable to the Lord.

Closing: Recent experience in library finding father, who seemed too old to be father of William Taylor and father of John Taylor.

April Semi-Annual Meeting

Semi-Annual Meeting April 30, 2011

Bountiful Family Center at 6:30 PM

PRESIDING: John O. Tolman

INVOCATION: Tricia T. Leslie

THOSE IN ATTENDANCE: Kristi Pitts, John Tolman 48, Joan Tolman, Patricia Tolman, Tricia T. Leslie, Loraine T. Pace 456, Ann Call, Tom Tolman 20, Bud Pace, Donna Holt, Barbara Tolman 30, Rulon Cushing, Wendy C. Taylor, Clyde S. Knighton, Roger Cushing, Meriola Black, Sandra Keeler, Janis Newton 4.

MINUTES READ BY: Janis Newton (Date of minutes, approved, changes noted)

FINANCIAL REPORT: Barbara Tolman (Date of report, prepared by, revenues, and expenditures noted)

FACILITIES REPORT: Tricia Leslie The home is well cared for by Doug Jones and new tenent ?

REPORTS OF BOARD MEMBERS:

CYRUS LINE: Kristie Tolman Pitts: Her sister is on a mission in Austin Texas with her husband. He is an Institute Instructor on the campus of University of Austin. She does a lot of instruction on how to do genealogy work. She has worked with Loraine and does an excellent job. Loraine is anxious to have her back. They return January 2012.

JUDSON LINE: Tonga Titcomb: Has spent time with a number of family members and has received a lot of information and is still working on it.

BENJAMIN LINE: Dawine T, Mills Johnson

GENEALOGIST: Loraine Tolman Pace: She presented a timeline of the Tolman Genealogy Home development. She showed how some of the projects she is working on looks. She bore her testimony that if we help our Heavenly Father with his children He will help us with our children. (Attached)

TEMPLE READY: Glen Tonge Donna Hold has Temple Ready Cards.

PUBLICATION EDITOR: Tom Tolman: E-mailing publications saving a lot of money. Magazine is mailed once a year. Newsletter is mailed twice a year. He is still working on postcard that will be sent. He presented the Mabey family records to be added to the Tolman Archives. His goal is that he would like to see the next generation, get involved with the family genealogy program. Bountiful Days parade chairman is looking to see if our family would like to present a float for the parade. He will look for a chairman. Wendy Cushing would like to help. She works for a construction company and has access to a trailer.

OTHER BUSINESS: Ann Dibble Call has just started working on Genealogy. She would like any information on Jane McDaniel Stoker, John McDaniel or McDonald, Aibiah McCarley or McCauley.

ASSIGNMENTS:

NEXT MEETING:

BENEDICTION: Bud Pace

Refreshments served.

October Semi-Annual Meeting

Semi-Annual Meeting October 16, 2010

Bountiful Family Center at 6:30 PM

PRESIDING: President John O. Tolman.

INVOCATION: Tonga Titcomb

MINUTES READ BY: Kristie Tolman Pitts (Date of minutes, approved, changes noted)

FINANCIAL REPORT: Barbara Tolman (Date of report, prepared by, revenues, and expenditures noted) We have been able to operate on income this year, so the balance is as it was at the first of the year at over $9,000.00. We have also paid for the concrete work with income. We have also been able to save money by using the internet to send out the magazine. In addition, we also have been ahead by just under $2,000.00 on the rent this year for research money. Our financial records all balance with the bank. We use accepted accounting principles and our balance now is about $11,000.00

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE OR REMARKS: John Tolman

• Johns Remarks: John talked about the status of the house in terms of upkeep, mentioning the completed concrete project, and tree trimming, and repairs to the roof. He stated the roof will need to be replaced in the future, and that the cost for that would be around $10,000.00 to $15,000.00.

• Business: (tenants and semi-annual meeting)

FACILITIES REPORT: Tricia Leslie

REPORTS OF BOARD MEMBERS:

CYRUS LINE: Kristie Tolman Pitts

JUDSON LINE: Tonga Titcomb

BENJAMIN LINE: Dawine T, Mills Johnson

GENEALOGIST: Loraine Tolman Pace: Loraine mentioned several cousins who have died recently, and the fact that she attended the funeral of Stanley Earl Tolman that very day. She talked about the important role played by the Tolman center in serving as a caretaker for journals, pictures, etc. It is important that we take care of the center. She has been working on editing the Thomas Briggs’ journals. It is difficult job with the spelling problems, and is taking a great a deal of time. The journals have great detail and the project will be very worthwhile when done. Loraine is researching 70 surnames on our ancestral lines. These lines cross the waters to England in the early 1600’s or late 1500’s. We have a distinct place in England for all but 5 of the 70 surnames. We have gone as far as we can go on some of the lines.

There are three scenarios on Thomas Tolman in New Family Search. This continues to be a very difficult problem. We are trying to clean up the information on all ancestors of Nathan on down. We still have lots of work to do. We need younger members of the family to get involved. Research is now geared to the younger generation on the computers etc. We desperately need more help. There continues to be a problem of multiplying errors in the records. This is easy to do with one wrong choice. Loraine then bore her testimony of the work.

TEMPLE READY: Glen Tonge

PUBLICATION EDITOR: Tom Tolman

OTHER BUSINESS: Special Guest Randy Sellers was introduced by Glen Tonge. Brother Sellers is considered Mr. Genealogy in Glen’s stake. He is a CPA who owns a bank and a number of other businesses. He is a Certified Professional Genealogist and the Gospel Doctrine, and Genealogy teacher in Glen’s ward.

Brother Sellers talked about using different research techniques that the traditional, using younger people in the research. He showed the group assembled how he could find and use birth and marriage records in as little as 25 minutes on a computer to do the work that would take hours otherwise. He gave important tips on what do look for in the records. Using this method, there are shorter, easier projects for young people to do that can be done at home. He talked about the use of extracted records, and said that indexes that are coming that are revolutionizing research.

ASSIGNMENTS:

NEXT MEETING:

BENEDICTION: Tom Tolman

April Semi-Annual Meeting

THOMAS TOLMAN FAMILY ORGANIZATION

Semi-annual Meeting April 17, 2010 1:00 PM

Tolman Family Genealogy Center – Bountiful, Utah

PRESIDING: President John O. Tolman

INVOCATION: Bud Pace

MINUTES: Janis T Newton

BUSINESS: President John O. Tolman We live in a challenging time. We must STAND IN HOLY PLACES! D&C 115:6

FINANCIAL REPORT: Barbara Tolman

Barbara gave a detailed financial report, reviewing the expenditures for 2009. Our finances are all in order and categorized, and the research center is paying for itself. Audit was given by a cousin Preston Jay Waite.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE OR REMARKS: President John O. Tolman We should pitch our Hearts & Minds to the Temple. We must save both the living and the dead; brother, sister, child. We must all become more involved. We need more help in our family organization; documentation, Temple work, research. Small projects are available from Lorraine Pace for individuals to work on or work with her on research. John told a sacred story of feeling the presence of his Grandfather in the Temple when he took out his endowments prior to his mission.

BOARD MEMBER REPORTS:

FACILITIES: Tricia Leslie

GENEALOGIST: Loraine Tolman

Dawnine T. Mills Johnson had a mild stroke. She is doing fine.

TEMPLE READY: Glen Tonge

PUBLICATION EDITOR: Tom Tolman

Family magazine was sent by e-mail, this saves a lot of money. Computer networking is here to stay. We need to familiarize ourselves and use the computer for our family history; classes, Desert News, social networking, Facebook are ways to learn and share. Ruth Knighton has pictures of Jaren and Mary Ann on Facebook.

CYRUS LINE: Kristi Tolman Pitts

JUDSON LINE: Tonga Titcomb

BENJAMIN LINE: Dawnine T. Mills Johnson

GUEST SPEAKER: Glen Tonge introduced Guest speaker June Allred. She is in the Tabernacle Choir. She has held many different positions in the church. She attended a Fair on Family History. She has taught many classes with the information that she has learned and is here today to share with us.

BENEDICTION: Andrew Pace

REFRESHMENTS: