My husband Dean serves as the patriarch in the Granite Stake. One of the business things that must be taken care of each time a candidate comes to our house for a blessing is to verify the information on each recommend. This includes names of individual, parents’ names (maiden name of mother), place of birth, birthdate, etc. What we find interesting is the number of teens who don’t know where they were born. Some say “here” meaning Sandy; others have no idea where, let alone the name of the hospital where they were born. Just because kids were born in the Salt Lake Valley doesn’t mean they were born in Salt Lake City.

Why not set aside a family home evening to share the stories of their births, including the name of the hospital where they were born, along with the name of the city. If parents lived in other cities early in their marriage before most of the kids were born, it would be interesting to share the places and stories about where the family has lived over the years. –Liz Kennington (Source: June 2017 Family Ties)