Is there a place I can look to help me get started writing a ward history. What should be included? What questions should I ask former bishops? I would like to do a good job but feel a little lost.
Country Park 2nd Ward. Country Park Stake.
South Jordan, Utah
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Writing ward history
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mlh78
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Start here: https://history.lds.org/annualhistories?lang=eng
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aebrown
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There's a wonderful new resource on lds.org called Stake, District, and Mission Annual Histories. The ward history is part of the stake history, so this will be very helpful for you.
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Historia de mi rama
Thank you so much to every one.I found all what I need.yeees!
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Re: Writing ward history
When I started attending Rosario Ward QC 2nd Ward, I felt distant from the members and quite shy. I wasn’t very friendly, maybe because my family was far away, and I often felt lonely.
After six months, my bishop called me to serve as the ward historian specialist. He gave me some documents with instructions, but I found them difficult to understand. So, I did some research on lds.org and found video instructions there. It seemed interesting, and when I started working on it, I actually enjoyed it.
As a historian, I had to talk to people and encourage them to share their testimonies, events at the chapel, and bishopric activities. Over time, I became more social, and my best friends in this calling became the ward leaders because they were the ones who provided reports about the activities.
The challenge, however, was when secretaries didn’t submit reports about their activities. Sometimes, it felt like I was doing the work of all the secretaries since they would only send pictures, and I had to figure out what happened in each event and write reflections about them.
Despite this, I really enjoyed the calling. Members were always happy to see me and would say, "Oh, our historian is here!" It was funny how excited they were to share their pictures from different activities.
After six months, my bishop called me to serve as the ward historian specialist. He gave me some documents with instructions, but I found them difficult to understand. So, I did some research on lds.org and found video instructions there. It seemed interesting, and when I started working on it, I actually enjoyed it.
As a historian, I had to talk to people and encourage them to share their testimonies, events at the chapel, and bishopric activities. Over time, I became more social, and my best friends in this calling became the ward leaders because they were the ones who provided reports about the activities.
The challenge, however, was when secretaries didn’t submit reports about their activities. Sometimes, it felt like I was doing the work of all the secretaries since they would only send pictures, and I had to figure out what happened in each event and write reflections about them.
Despite this, I really enjoyed the calling. Members were always happy to see me and would say, "Oh, our historian is here!" It was funny how excited they were to share their pictures from different activities.
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Re: Writing ward history
You will also want to check out this (it's a very important thing that I didn't know about until recently):
https://unithistory.churchofjesuschrist.org/
There's a link to this in the other link, but if you're a ward historian already, you might have missed it the last few times you saw it (because it wasn't always there).
https://unithistory.churchofjesuschrist.org/
There's a link to this in the other link, but if you're a ward historian already, you might have missed it the last few times you saw it (because it wasn't always there).