Find Help to Discover Your Ancestors
Need Help with Family History?
Individual help is available for walk-in visitors or by appointment. We also offer live virtual family history help. Classes or groups may also schedule an experience that includes personalized help, such as the Aims in My Ancestry experience.
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The BYU Library Family History Center offers help for walk-in visitors or by appointment. Classes or groups may also schedule an experience that includes instruction with personalized help.
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Virtual Help Desk
The BYU Library family history missionaries provide one-on-one virtual help with family history.
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Help with Geography/Language
Specialized help with geographic areas and/or languages is available. Contact the missionaries to find out whether there is someone who can help with a specific geographic area and/or language—and when, either in-person or virtually. Then you can schedule an appointment or plan to visit us or join the virtual desk during a time when that helper is available. It is best to contact again before you come in to confirm that the help you need is available that day.
Aims In My Ancestry
Find inspiration in your ancestors and their examples of spiritual strength, intellectual growth, moral character, lifelong learning, and/or service. Schedule a class, group, or individual appointment.
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Family History Service
The BYU Library Family History Center offers help for individual students, classes, and groups desiring to give service through temple and family history work.
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