Tagged with "Family History"
Brazilian Youth Connect Family History, Temple Work
José A. Moscão was noticing a trend: the youth who were coming to the Campinas Brazil Temple had a lot of “down time.” Brother Moscão, the director of the family history center located adjacent to the Campinas Temple, knew that because of the distance many youth had to travel to get to...
Elder Bednar’s Promise
I started indexing this year, after my stake president talked about it in conference. It was a steep learning curve for me at first; I felt clumsy deciphering the handwriting and stressed about entering wrong information and wrecking the index for some poor searcher. But I’ve gotten better at it,...
Researching Family History: Great-great grandpa's shiny boots he wore across the plains and mountains to Utah
Wearing his red military uniform jacket, black trousers and the large black fur hat that the Danish queen's guards were proud to display, Capt. Jens Martin Christensen showed his skills with the queen's horses. He was an expert at this sort of thing. With a military stride, he guided Her Majesty's...
Norlan G. and Sheron R. Walker: Service in the Nuclear Age
MR says: What an interesting mission call to help victims called "Downwinders" do family history. Between 1951 and 1962, the Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas was the location of exactly 100 above-ground nuclear blasts and hundreds more below-ground tests. The atmospheric tests were the fun ones, of...
Genealogy TV growing in popularity worldwide
As geneaology websites increase in popularity, like ancestry.com with its 14 million users, TV shows are catching on to the family history wave and becoming hits not only in the U.S. but around the globe. “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is a popular new 10-part PBS program....
Open house for Nauvoo's new FamilySearch center
An open house for the new Nauvoo FamilySearch Center in the restored Raymond Clark store will be May 16-19 from 9 a.m. to 9...
Indexing Brings Unexpected Blessings to Sacramento Stake
MR says: What an inspiring story. There's a video, too, if you click on the forwarding link. When Elder Richard G. Maynes of the Seventy (now of the Presidency of the Seventy) left a meeting of local stake presidents in Sacramento, California, USA, in March 2011, he couldn’t have imagined how one of his...
The great escape of Maren Johanne Rasmussen — my great-great-grandmother
In 1866, Maren Johanne Rasmussen was 28 and faced a tearful day as her widowed mother and six brothers refused to bid her goodbye. Rasmussen, who was known as "Hannah," had joined The LDS Church and was determined to leave Denmark and travel to Zion in America. Her angry mother and brothers were...
A Time and Season for Family History
Before I had children, I spent a lot of time working on my family history. I also served for many years in the Family History Center (now called FamilySearch Center) and as a Family History Consultant. I had this marvelous vision of families doing family history research together, and met with...
1940s census images on FamilySearch for indexers
Thousands of images from the 1940s census for Delaware, Kansas, Colorado, Virginia and Oregon have been published online at FamilySearch.org/1940census for indexing volunteers, according to a news release from...
Ancestry.com releases collection of Titanic Records
To mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, Ancestry.com is releasing thousands of Titanic-related records. The records come from the ocean liner’s passenger lists, crew lists and lists of the more than 1,500 people who died at...
FamilySearch indexing app now available
MR says: This makes doing genealogy SO easy! Released just in time for the April 2 launch of the United States 1940 census, the free FamilySearch Indexing app users now helps individuals preserve and share precious genealogical records from around the world on mobile devices. The new mobile indexing app...
40 million new FamilySearch records, images online
Nearly 40 million online new records and images have been added to FamilySearch.org in the past few weeks, according to news...
Family history holidays bring tourists to Utah
Thousands of people flock to Salt Lake City each year, not for Utah’s skiing or national parks, but to search through endless records of births, deaths and marriages at one the world's largest repositories of genealogy information on the planet. There is a new breed of traveller focused on...
Teachings of George Albert Smith Lesson 8: Temple Blessings for Ourselves and Our Ancestors
"Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors through sacred ordinances of the temple." -Russell M. Nelson Note: As the Church has said, the manual has been prepared as the primary source of lesson material. This supplement, from a general...
Home
Advertise
About Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Subscribe
©2012 LDS Living, A Division of Deseret Book Company.