Sonterra Ward Family History Olympic Events

The following event list will increase -- make sure you check back from time to time. If you don't see a family history task here that you think should be in the list, do it anyway! The event form has a place to describe your special event, so let us know! Go back to main page.


Log in to the FamilySearch website for the first time with your own username and password.

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 001  Difficulty: Easy
Gather birth dates and places from your living relatives and enter records for them into FamilySearch.

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 002  Difficulty: Easy
Designate a storage system for the physical records of your personal and family history. It can be a filing cabinet or box or other appropriate means.

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 003  Difficulty: Easy
Write a new memory of your own and store it in your family history box.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 004  Difficulty: Easy
Take a new family photo and upload it to FamilySearch.org or put a hard copy in your family history storage box.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 005  Difficulty: Easy
On FamilySearch, switch from Pedigree view to view your ancestors as a Fan Chart, then switch to Descendancy View, and then back to Pedigree.

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 006  Difficulty: Easy
Using Descendancy View on FamilySearch, find an uncle or cousin that is eligible for temple work.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 007  Difficulty: Medium
Find an appropriate story about an ancestor and conduct a family home evening relating or acting out the story.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 008  Difficulty: Medium
Locate an ancestor's grave on findagrave.com and compare it to the information you have in FamilySearch or Ancestry.com.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 009  Difficulty: Easy
Visit the Puzilla website at http://puzilla.org and visualize you family tree in new ways. (You need enough data in your FamilySearch tree first)

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 010  Difficulty: Easy
Visit the RootsMapper.com website and visualize your anscestor's birthplaces to 4 generations. Select a birthplace and have a family night lesson on that place.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 011  Difficulty: Medium
Help the Sonterra Ward Family History Olympics by preparing materials for communications or awards.

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 012  Difficulty: Easy
Get a map and find a country or state where an ancestor of yours lived. Learn something new about that place.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 013  Difficulty: Primary
Hold a family night and discuss the Sonterra Family History Olympics. Think of or find a new appropriate event for each family member.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 014  Difficulty: Medium
Learn and recite the full names of all your grandparents.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 015  Difficulty: Primary
Learn and recite the full names of all your great-grandparents.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 020  Difficulty: Primary
Draw a picture of the temple. Put it where you can see it.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 021  Difficulty: Primary
Learn all the words to the song I Love To See The Temple. Sing them with your family.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 022  Difficulty: Primary
As a family, choose an activity from the FamilySearch activity page and do it. Post about the experience on the ward Facebook page.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 023  Difficulty: Medium
Learn about the origin and meaning of your name.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 024  Difficulty: Primary
Discover what movie was Best Picture the year you were born.

ActivityCategory: Activity
Event Code: 025  Difficulty: Easy
Compare your face to photos of your ancestors and find the one you look the most like.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 028  Difficulty: Easy
Complete the "All-About-Me Box" activity on FamilySearch.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 029  Difficulty: Easy
Go to www.thefhguide.com and Watch the 'Overview Video' on the homepage.

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 030  Difficulty: Easy
Find an ancestor's photo and upload it to FamilySearch.org using the website or the memories app.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 031  Difficulty: Easy
On FamilySearch, find an indexed historical document for an ancestor's record, and add a citation to the FamilySearch record linking the record to the document.

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 032  Difficulty: Medium
Log on to relativefinder.org, have it import your tree from FamilySearch, and join the Sonterra Ward group (password redlands"). Find the closest relative in the ward that you did not already know about. Then greet them at church or give them a call or email.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 033  Difficulty: Easy
Tell a nonmember friend, coworker, or relative about a relative you have located using FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, or FindaGrave.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 034  Difficulty: Medium
Find a relative that needs temple ordinances performed, and print out an ordinance request form or ordinance card.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 035  Difficulty: Medium
Visit FamilySearch.org and login with your own username and password. Find the list of indexing projects.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 036  Difficulty: Easy
Index and submit a batch at the Beginning level.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 037  Difficulty: Easy
Index and submit a batch at the Intermediate level.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 038  Difficulty: Medium
Begin keeping a journal. Write in it every day for 2 weeks.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 039  Difficulty: Easy
Visit a place where your ancestors have lived that is over 20 miles away.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 040  Difficulty: Medium
MEMORIAL DAY SPECIAL (3x) Locate a relative in your tree that fought in a war

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 041  Difficulty: Medium
Locate a relative in your tree that was an outlaw

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 042  Difficulty: Medium
Locate a relative that came to America via Ellis Island

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 043  Difficulty: Medium
While out of town on vacation or a business trip, visit a temple you have never been inside.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 044  Difficulty: Medium
Write a letter to a Grandparent or other older relative, and ask them to write back. Keep the letter.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 045  Difficulty: Easy
Put a photo of one of your ancestors in your room.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 046  Difficulty: Primary
Find an article in The Friend magazine about the temple or family history. Read it and share it with your family.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 047  Difficulty: Primary
Upload a photograph to FamilySearch and record an audio message to go with it.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 048  Difficulty: Medium
Share a name with the temple. (The temple need not be open yet)

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 049  Difficulty: Easy
Watch "Introduction to Web Indexing" (by AncestryAnswers) on www.youtube.com

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 050  Difficulty: Easy
Watch "FamilySearch Web Indexing - Intro Part 1 My Indexing Page Tour" by Jason Pierson on www.youtube.com

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 051  Difficulty: Easy
Watch "FamilySearch Web Indexing - Intro Part 2 Find a Batch to Index" by Jason Pierson on www.youtube.com

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 052  Difficulty: Easy
Watch "FamilySearch Web Indexing - Part 3 Learn the Indexing Tool Features" by Jason Pierson on www.youtube.com

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 053  Difficulty: Easy
Watch "FamilySearch Web Indexing - Intro Part 4 Step 1 Identify Images to be Indexed" by Jason Pierson on www.youtube.com

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 054  Difficulty: Easy
Watch "FamilySearch Web Indexing - Intro Part 5 Index Your First Image" on www.youtube.com

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 055  Difficulty: Easy
Locate a relative in your tree that is royalty

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 056  Difficulty: Medium
Think up an appropriate family history themed event for these olympics. Tell the Family History Committee about it and get it added to this list so others can try it.

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 057  Difficulty: Medium
Make an audio recording containing family history memories and upload it to the FamilySearch.org site using a web browser or memories app.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 058  Difficulty: Medium
Restage a photograph of one of your ancestors using yourself or a family member.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 059  Difficulty: Medium
Discover how many people have your last name in the shared Family Tree using FamilySearch.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 060  Difficulty: Medium
Index and submit a batch at the Advanced level.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 061  Difficulty: Hard
Carefully index a batch that has 100% agreement when reviewed.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 062  Difficulty: Medium
Carefully index a record under parent's supervision. Talk about what it must have been like to live at the time of the record.

Beginners Track & FieldCategory: Beginners Track & Field
Event Code: 063  Difficulty: Primary
Become a reviewer for indexing on FamilySearch.org. Review your first batch.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 064  Difficulty: Hard
Find the ward progress statistics for indexing on FamilySearch.org. Find a member who is part of the list of contributors and drop them a line expressing appreciation.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 065  Difficulty: Medium
On FamilySearch.org, find two ancestor records that need merging and perform the merge. Get help from a consultant if needed.

Technical GymnasticsCategory: Technical Gymnastics
Event Code: 066  Difficulty: Hard
Set a personal indexing goal for the next 30 days then achieve or exceed it.

Indexing MarathonCategory: Indexing Marathon
Event Code: 067  Difficulty: Medium
Add a 'Life Sketch' to your Person details page on FamilySearch

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 068  Difficulty: Medium
Choose a lesson in the FamilySearch Help Center and complete it.

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 069  Difficulty: Easy
Watch one of the recorded sessions from rootstech 2020 at www.rootstech.org/video-archive

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 070  Difficulty: Medium
MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL Add the record of a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, etc. to your FamilySearch pedigree during the week of May 10-May 17 for triple score.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 071  Difficulty: Medium
FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL Add the record of a father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. to your FamilySearch pedigree during the week of June 21-28 for triple score.

Research RelayCategory: Research Relay
Event Code: 072  Difficulty: Medium
Go through family videos and make an index of their content to help you find moments, favorites, or particular events.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 073  Difficulty: Medium
MEMORIAL DAY SPECIAL Select a relative that served in a war and learn about that conflict and their life. Write down your thoughts.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 074  Difficulty: Medium
MEMORIAL DAY SPECIAL Visit the grave of a relative.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 075  Difficulty: Primary
Write a letter to a grandchild or younger relative. Include a noteworthy story from your personal history.

Memory DecathalonCategory: Memory Decathalon
Event Code: 076  Difficulty: Medium
Research or plan an extended family gathering to be held after lockdown ends. Let other family members know of your ideas.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 077  Difficulty: Easy
Renew or obtain your temple recommend, even if the temple is unavailable.

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 078  Difficulty: Medium
Find one of 16 hymnbook selections about the temple that you are unfamiliar with, and learn the words.

TrainingCategory: Training
Event Code: 079  Difficulty: Medium
Give a talk during a family devotional meeting or family night about Family History. Include your testimony.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 080  Difficulty: Medium
Find out how and where your ancestors served their faith.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 081  Difficulty: Medium
Research and do a day's chores the way your grandparent or other ancestor did them.

Family Team SportsCategory: Family Team Sports
Event Code: 082  Difficulty: Hard

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