How can we participate in Family History work? Here are three suggestions: 

First, we can pray about what we can do to be involved in family history work. Our Heavenly Father knows what will help us. We can ask Him and then follow through.

Second, we can schedule regular time to do family history. Family history is a perfect activity to dedicate time to on a Sunday afternoon or to use as a homework break during the week. 

Third, we can make appointments to take family names to the temple. Wilford Woodruff taught, “Temple work for the dead was an important duty in which a good many of the Latter-Day Saints were engaged. . . . In these last days this same duty rested upon us. Our fathers who had died without a knowledge of the Gospel had gone into the spirit world, a[n]d we should labor for them here.” 

Family history is an important work which can bless our lives.