by Summer O | Aug 7, 2017 | Home and Family
It is a core belief of Latter-Day Saints, that family relationships extend beyond the grave. A Latter-Day Saint man and woman who are married in an LDS Temple by one who holds the priesthood are sealed together for eternity. A marriage performed without proper...
by Summer O | Jul 24, 2017 | Home and Family
A collateral line refers to ancestors from whom you don’t directly descend, but that are still in your ancestral family. Such as aunts, cousins or your 5th Great Grandmother’s siblings. All too often in Family History research, these collateral ancestors are...
by Patty Sampson | Nov 13, 2016 | Patty Sampson: Christian Life
Family History is boring. It’s for retired people who have nothing else to do. And the only way to really do family history is to go out in graveyards and find the names on stones and write them down. Or so I thought. I’m a young mom, busy with a young...
by Walter Penning | Jun 1, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
I would like to address the work of salvation through family history. Now before you roll your eyes and think “Not again…not another message about family history,” let me say that you are already doing better than you think you are. Many of you are having memorable...
by Delisa Hargrove | Oct 16, 2015 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
It seems like every Mormon family has an aunt or cousin who has done “all of the genealogy for the family.” For my maternal grandfather’s line, that person is mom’s cousin Fawn. She’s connected family ties for years and years, yet I’ve never heard her say,...