Item Detail
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30785
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English
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Small Beginnings
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Hearts Turned to the Fathers
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BYU Studies
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1994
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34
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2
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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33-58
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[1995 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Article Award of Excellence]
Long before the latter day saints founded a genealogical society a number of Church members made extraordinary efforts to gather family information. While these attempts to locate genealogical records were largely individual the church offered encouragement and assistance when possible. The major impediment to genealogical research in nineteenth century Utah was the inaccessibility of sources.The ancestral records of the typical Utah resident were scattered far outside the territory and usually outside the country in homes institutions archives offices churches and cemeteries. The Saints continuing personal and cooperative search for these records together with an important doctrinal revelation to President Wilford Woodruff helped set the stage for the founding of the genealogical society of Utah in 1894.
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Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Missionaries for the Dead : The Story of the Genealogical Missionaries of the Nineteenth Century
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900