Kadena Okinawa Temple and Family History

Are you interested in doing some family history work and hoping for an easy way to start? Did you hit a roadblock or dead-end in your family history research and feel like you need to take a break? Has your family tree already been filled out and connected the whole way back to Adam and Eve (or maybe just back to Noah and the flood) but you'd still like to work family history? Are you interested in new ways to participate in family history work? If any of these statements describe you, I have a few ideas that might interest you. Stay tuned for details.

 Some great details were released about the Okinawa Japan Temple in May 2020: "The Okinawa Japan Temple will be located on a half-acre site at 7-11, Matsumoto, Okinawa Shi, in Okinawa-ken, Japan. Plans call for a two-story temple of approximately 10,000 square feet. A temple patron waiting area will also be added on to an adjacent existing meetinghouse." The location is right beside Kadena Air Base, specifically between Gate 2 and Gate 3. It can be found on GoogleMaps:  https://www.google.com/maps/place/Church+of+Jesus+Christ+of+Latter-Day+Saints,+Kadena+Branch/@26.3578946,127.802066,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x93303d44b6f6199e!8m2!3d26.3578946!4d127.802066 . Along with the information above, there was an official rendering of the future temple: Photo Credit: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/coban-guatemala-okinawa-japan-temples-renderings

President Nelson Reviewing Items from Salt Lake Temple Capstone Photo Credit: Deseret News Even though currently we are not able to attend the temple, we can help the work move forward in many ways, such as the following: Live worthy of and keep a current temple recommend; Work on your family history--President Nelson mentioned this during the April 2020 General Conference. This will enable you to prepare names to take to the temple and share family history with others, especially your family; Help others do family history work, including through indexing projects on FamilySearch—this was also mentioned by President Nelson during the April 2020 General Conference; Pray that the Okinawa temple will be completed quickly. Here are the invitation and promise given by President Nelson during the April 2020 General Conference: "While worshiping in the temple is presently not possible, I invite you to increase your participation in family history, including family history research and i

Hi! This blog, entitled " Kadena Okinawa Temple and Family History",  is not an official website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints   but is meant to be a source of tips and inspiration related to temple and family history work. I'll try to share tidbits I learn from time to time--mostly related to FamilySearch.org --and hope you will find them useful. Also, since plans to construct the Okinawa Japan Temple were officially announced , I'll try to give periodic updates and other news regarding the temple. (Hopefully anyone looking for info on "LDS temples",  "Latter-day Saint temples",  or "Mormon temples" will find their way to this blog.) If something posted seems off or doesn't quite make sense, please forgive me. I'm still figuring this out myself. 😃 (Feel free to pass me feedback.) If you are looking for related information on social media, you might try the following hashtags: #okinawatemple #okinawajapantem