The Great ShakeOut Safety Videos

Full Playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs1gMujRSBY2t7JB4VS-AymFwN-6Lvg20

Earthquake Safety Resources

Bay Area Seven Steps Pamphlet:

https://www.earthquakecountry.org/library/StayingSafeWhereTheEarthShakes_BayAreaEdition.pdf

The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety (in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean)

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2007/42/gip42.pdf

The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety (in Spanish)

https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2007/41/gip41.pdf

Other Resources in Spanish

https://www.terremotos.org/recursos/

https://www.terremotos.org/

Additional Resources:

Do 1 Thing: Preparing for a Power Outage

En Espanol: Do 1 Thing: Preparing for a Power Outage

The Great Texas Freeze Of 2021

https://youtu.be/riH9RpzQcUk

Consumer Reports Power Your Home With A Portable Generator – Nbc 5

Dallas Fort Worth

https://youtu.be/PtTGfN08FcE

Links to things to buy

• • Portable solar charger for phone

  • Multi-function radio link 1, link 2

  • Generators: See slide presentations

  • Lithium battery: Yeti or Jackery portable Power Station

  • Anker Power Banks for charging phones or other small devices

  • Plug-in power failure flashlights or similar

  • Halo Bolt car jumpstarter, battery backup charger

Oakland FamilySearch Library

Brother Bruce McLeod

Elder and Sister Wassom

Tips!

Digitize all of your records, photos and documents. Digitize now; then organize later.

Rule of three:

Store your important records in 3 places to ensure they are always available.

Possible places to store records:

• Multiple sites (family member’s home, safe deposit box)

• Multiple formats (digital, hard copy, different format of digital like USB, DVD, M-Disc)

• Cloud storage: Google, Shutterfly, iCloud, Amazon

• Fireproof safe or bag

• Computer hard drive

• External thumb drive

• DVD

• M-Disc (good for 1000 years, made for military)

• IDrive/iCloud

• Backup service like Carbonite

• Unlisted YouTube channel, keep URLs in a spreadsheet and share with family

Other ideas:

Write your history

Create a website with your personal history to share with your family

Use Google PhotoScan app to digitize photos that can’t be taken to the FamilySearch library

For hard copies:

Use archival paper, photo friendly pen

Label photos with “who, what, where, when”

Old photo albums can harm photos. See the FamilySearch library for help to digtize them.

Resources at the FamilySearch Library:

FamilySearch Library is one of only 15 genealogical libraries of its size in the world.

Location: Oakland California temple grounds, 4766 Lincoln Ave, Oakland, CA 94602

Phone: (510) 531-3905

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Oakland_California_FamilySearch_Library

Email with questions or special requests. They check this email regularly: fhcoakland@gmail.com

Hours:

Tuesday 10-5

Wed & Thursday 10am-8pm

Fri-Sat 10am-4pm

Spanish Language support Thursday 6:30pm-8pm or by appointment

Upcoming events: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Oakland_California_FamilySearch_Library/Classes_and_Workshops

Preserving documents and photos

All resources and tools to digitize records are free. It is suggested that you make an appointment to reserve the machines.

They can digitize many formats of records: photos, negatives, slides, film, VHS, cassette tape, 8mm, books, photo albums, photos, 3D scans of objects

ShotBox that can take shadowless photos of items

Genealogical resources for beginner to experts:

Lots of local genealogical societies volunteer at the center representing many different cultures, languages and countries of origin including & not limited to African American genealogy, Native American, Bay Area Chinese Genealogy Group, Polynesian (new oral genealogy project!), lots of info for Mexico and other Spanish language records have been recently indexed. If you need help in a particular language or search in a specific country, they will help you figure it out. They need volunteers who can read Chinese characters.

Group visits (youth groups, ward organizations, etc)

They will see groups of 10-15 during non operating hours by appointment with 2 weeks advance notice. All group visitors should make a FamilySearch account beforehand through their church account if possible.

Training for ward and stake Family History Consultants:

Contact the family history center for training. Brother Bruce McLeod will personally train you if you contact him: BruceMcLeod@familysearch.org He is also having 2 special trainings in June: Demystifying Family History Specialist Callings and Developing Ward Plans

Important note about FamilySearch accounts: if you are member of the Church you should start by signing into your regular church account on LDS tools (churchofjesuschrist.org) then making a FamilySearch account through the church website so that your member record number is associated with your familysearch account. This will make your family tree show up on your account and you will get free access to Ancestry.com and other tools for your family history.