Each week I hear from patrons and consultants at the Granite Family History Center about their experiences with temple and family history. It is exciting to learn of the joy to the heart and comfort to the soul they receive. It is so inspiring and rewarding to be involved in such a wonderful endeavor. In… Read More THE HEART AND SOUL OF FAMILY HISTORY
In the fall of 2020, I felt like the Holy Ghost was nudging me along to finish a project that I had started a few years earlier. I felt an urgency to complete it. I had borrowed some pictures from my mother-in-law of her parents and other family members that were from the Netherlands. I… Read More “Thank You for Remembering Us”
A lot of temple work for my Danish ancestors was done in the Salt Lake Temple in the 1920’s and 1930’s. In the past five years, because of the many old Danish records that have been digitized and put online, I have been able to find spouses, children, grandchildren, grandparents, great grandparents, etc. for many… Read More Advances in Technology Have Led to Miracles in Family History and Temple Work
Elder Renlund has counseled, “When God directs us to do one thing, He often has many purposes in mind. Family history and temple work is not only for the dead, but blesses the living as well.” I would like to share an experience about how temple and family history work has blessed both the living… Read More Blessing the Living and the Dead
In the April 2022 General Conference, President Russell M. Nelson introduced the concept of positive spiritual momentum in our lives. Just like a game in sports, momentum can carry us through difficult circumstances and provide that additional energy to perform at a high level. Many of the conference talks in the most recent conference referenced… Read More SPIRITUAL MOMENTUM
My sister Sandy loved doing genealogy. She died in 1998 and most of her research was done before she learned to use a computer. She wrote letters to vicars and libraries all over the world. She would always include a ten dollar bill in her requests and felt that this brought answers faster. She spent… Read More Not Just a Name on a Card
My early experiences with family history were overwhelming and daunting. Once, when I was at the Salt Lake Family History Library, I looked through a book with a line of my ancestors and noticed a vital date for my father was wrong. When no one was looking, I may have made a small correction! I… Read More Stories of Gathering my Family History
The 1950 Federal Census will be released by the National Archives on April 1, 2022, 72 years after they began collecting data on the 150 million Americans living in the states and territories at the time! How can you help? Sign up to help the extraction process! This extraction will be unique. The records will first go through an… Read More The 1950 Census Indexing Project NEEDS YOU
Last month while serving my shift, I invited a friend to join me at the Family History Center. Her tree has many blanks in it giving us opportunities to find more family members and add them to FamilySearch Family Tree. Unfortunately, the previous generations of her family were very poor and there are not many records. Many relatives… Read More Searching for Great-Grandpa
In the April 2018 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson pled with us to “choose to do the spiritual work required to enjoy the gift of the Holy Ghost and hear the voice of the Spirit more frequently and more clearly.” He also provided a formula to receive personal revelation. He said, “Nothing opens the heavens quite… Read More ARE WE LUCKY OR WHAT?