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FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, recently announced the completion of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, indexing the names of millions of African Americans directly following emancipation. The unprecedented indexing effort will allow African Americans to digitally search for their ancestors who were previously lost to history. The project was completed almost a year to the day after it was announced in a nationwide news conference at the California African American Museum on the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the celebration of Emancipation Day.
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At the beginning of October, LDS vocalist Dustin Christensen made all four judges on NBC's The Voice turn their chairswith his exciting rendition of "Downtown Train."
In a locker room at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah, a 16-year-old boy violently stabbed five other students before stabbing himself on November 15. Five of the students have already been released from the hospital, something the school's principal credits to a number of miracles.
Mormon Lindsey Stirling has attracted quite a bit of attention on the internet recently both in the Mormon world and elsewhere.
Mormon reality TV show contestants father Jim and son Austin Vach of Maple Valley, Washington, think they have what it takes to win on NBC’s new survival show, Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls. The show, hosted by renowned survivalist Bear Grylls, follows ten teams of two people through an arduous group expedition littered with orchestrated challenges across the wilds of New Zealand. It aired its pilot last week on July 8th.
Wayne Hamby has spent much of his life working and traveling around the world to out-of-the-way places in search of diamonds and precious gemstones. And though Brother Hamby has had many opportunities to see God’s hand in his life as he has encountered dangerous and uncertain circumstances, he knows the blessings he has seen are a result of a lifetime of small but powerful spiritual experiences.
Some people believe the Earth is flat — or so I’ve heard. If Wikipedia is to be believed, they’ve formed a society — the International Flat Earth Research Society. Their work is called a theory. Their history includes antecedents with high-sounding names like Zetitism and practical cosmography.