Book Description
This informative LDS Guidebook helps you find your ancestors. It tells you where to begin, and how to find out who needs temple ordinances by a well-organized, easy step-by-step approach.
Author : Paul Larsen
Publisher : Fresh Mountain Air Publishing Company
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 9780974269535
This informative LDS Guidebook helps you find your ancestors. It tells you where to begin, and how to find out who needs temple ordinances by a well-organized, easy step-by-step approach.
Author : Paul Larsen
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 9780974269504
Author : David R. Dowell Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1598849409
A basic, how-to book written primarily to prepare librarians to assist genealogy researchers, this guide can also be used by those who wish to discover and document their family histories. There has been an explosion of interest in genealogy recently, with popular series running on PBS (Faces of America), NBC (Who Do You Think You Are?) and BYU-TV (The Generations Project). Even Lisa Simpson did a genealogy project for school. Part of the popular Crash Course series, Crash Course in Genealogy will help librarians feel more comfortable as they work with the increasing number of patrons looking for assistance in researching their family trees. Beginning with library genealogical services policies, the guide moves on to cover genealogical research principles and most-used sources. It also illustrates how one can perform a search backward in time through American family history. The book includes information on researching people of color, taking research to another country, and adding DNA information to genealogical research. Examples from the author's decades-long experience as a genealogist enrich the text, while illustrations of census records and the like help readers understand the research process.
Author : Kip Sperry
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 161858975X
Never before has the wide array of Mormon family history sources been gathered into one comprehensive and easy-to-use guide. In A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources, author, professor, and lecturer Kip Sperry explains electronic databases, websites, microfilm collections, indexed, and more, all relating to the Latter-day Saint family history. Whether you are taking your first step into your Latter-day Saint ancestry, your fiftieth, or your five-hundredth, A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources will lead you to something new.
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Genealogy
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Author : JOHN J HAMMOND
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1462873650
This is the first volume of a multi-volume work entitled The Quest for the New Jerusalem: Mormon Generational Saga , and it ends with a listing of the titles of all sixteen volumes in this series which have been written to this point. Before discussing the first volume, it is necessary to describe the entire series. Around the year 2000 the author began a thorough investigation of his genealogical roots, and to his surprise discovered that many of his ancestors had played significant roles in the early history of America and central roles in the history of Mormonism. Wherever he looked, his ancestors were there: during the colonial King Phillip’s and French and Indian Wars in New England; at the Battle of Bunker (actually Breed’s) Hill and on a prison ship for two years on the Hudson River during the American Revolution; on whaling ships in the south Atlantic and northern Pacific during the 1840s; at Mormon Kirtland, Far West and Nauvoo during the turbulent and often bloody events of the 1830s and 1840s; in the earliest Mormon experiments with polygamy (almost all of the author’s ancestors were polygamists); in San Francisco and Sacramento during the earliest stages of the California Gold Rush; in the immigrant ships filled with Mormon converts crossing the Atlantic; in the wagon trains carrying the “saints” across the plains to Salt Lake City; during the establishment of the Mormon Church in Hawaii in the early 1850s; in the first haltering steps toward elementary and higher education in Utah; during the “Mormon War” with the U.S. army in Utah in 1857-58; in the operation of the early Salt Lake Theater; in the building of the transcontinental railroad across Utah in 1869; in the settlement of the wild “four corners area” during the 1880s and 1890s; in the rather secret and somewhat underhanded process by which Utah became a state; and in the pioneer settlement of southern Idaho in the early 1900s. The author felt impelled to tell these wonderful ancestral stories, and it became obvious that this could not be done without giving an account of the history of the Mormon Church—the two subjects were intimately interwoven. Furthermore, telling the linked ancestral/Mormon story, beginning in the American colonial period, could not be adequately undertaken without giving an account of significant events in the larger American story. In recent years a number of writers have given us fascinating, generational family stories; Alex Haley’s Roots is a well known example. Haley traced his African-American family all the way back to a slave taken from a village in Africa. In 1991 Chinese-American Jung Chang’s, in her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, told a wonderful story of three generations of Chinese women--her great grandmother, grandmother, and mother--reaching back to China. Adele Logan Alexander’s Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family is an account of several generations of the author’s African-American family. Concerning another example--James Fox’s The Langhornes of Virginia --reviewer Robert Skidelsky wrote: “It was a clever idea to use family history to write about social and political history.” What Fox does is to use “the Langhorne sisters as a peg on which to hang the story of the decline of the British aristocracy, or Empire, or both.” John Hammond’s multi-volume Mormon Generational Saga evolved into something very similar to Fox’s, but he utilizes family history to write about religious as well as social and political history. In fact, what has emerged is a very detailed examination of the early history of the Mormon Church, with a special focus upon how that history affected his ancestors. The series opens in the earliest years of colonial New England with an account of four of the author’s ancestral families and the early lives and ancesto
Author : Mary K. Mannix
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838912958
Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
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Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1465116214
Designed to be used as a resource for institute teachers of Religion 261, Introduction to Family History. Lesson materials cover beginning research methods and doctrines related to redeeming the dead.
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Genealogy
ISBN :
Author : Thomas R. Valletta
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590383278
Most publications about the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seem to be written for historians and scholars, but this volume promises to be a trusted resources for families, teachers, and youth. The beautifully illustrated book is designed for anyone wanting to understand more clearly the history of the Church and its ties to the Doctrine and Covenants. The format--with word helps, illustrations, photos, maps, explanations, and brief commentaries--will be familiar to all who have loved the perennial bestseller "The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families, which was created by the same team of writers. Bring to life for your family the priceless stories, events, people, and scriptures of the Restoration!