This activity is great for getting kids familiar with the Family Search website. They need to navigate around and use all the features, but there’s no pressure.

Well, a little bit of pressure, since we allotted only 30 minutes, but not the pressure of the eternal salvation of your progenitors. You don’t feel your ancestors suffering in Spirit Prison as you fumble in the dark with illegible records, the way you might while actually looking for their records you can’t find.

children working on the computer

A person who lived in Virginia
A person with the first name Martin
A person wearing a bow tie
A person who had 11 children
A person who served a mission in England
A person with the profession of “Teacher”
A person who was born before 1500
A person who died in a war
A person who was born in California
A person who lived to be over 100 yrs old
A person with the first name Martha
A person with an epic mustache
A person who was born in the year 1833
A great-great-great-great-great grandmother
A person with the last name of Jacobs
A person alive today who descended from sa great grandmother of yours.
A person who has all their temple work done
A person who died at birth
A person wearing a white dress
A person with an attached death certificate
A person with a first name starting with K
A person who died at age 50
A person who lived in Mexico
A fourth cousin
A person who lived through a disaster
A person who died when before your age
A person who was never married
A second cousin once removed
A person who had a pet dog
A person who fought in a war (and lived)
A person who lived in Europe
A person who still needs temple work done
A person who had no children
A person with more than 6 photos
A person with an attached death certificate

Log into FamilySearch.org and find people these sentences describe. Each name can only be used once, and they have to be related to you. We worked together as a team (and found 16 names in 30 minutes) because my children get stressed when their progress is measured against one of their sibling’s. I put this list in a Google Doc and shared it with all the players. When a person started looking for a name, they put their own name as a signal to other players.

Some of them are harder than others. children working at computers, one of them is flopped over, frustrated