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Marinus Christensen was adopted as a small child in Denmark by Jens Christensen and Karen Marie Johannesen. Not long afterward they went to ...

John Morgan's FamilySearch Family Tree entry is blocked from changes because he was a Latter-day Saint general authority. FamilySearc...

In the ongoing effort to move the content from this blog over to FamilySearch Family Tree, I compiled the information here and added so...

The Joseph Smith Papers continues to identify and catalogue papers about the life of Joseph Smith. Their biographical entry for John Tanner...

If you were to visit today, this is the Swedish neighborhood where the Wessman family lived in the 1880s through the 1890s. It appears to h...

Happy Mother's Day! For the occasion, here is a chart of matrilineal descent, with pictures where possible. I have joked before that my...

This came up through a hint on Ancestry. This is from the East High School yearbook from 1941 showing Beverly Glade (Wessman) and her cousi...

Blogger hasn't been sending notifications for the better part of a year, and just the other day I noticed that there were about a doz...

Roy Tanner, picture courtesy of stephanieelesewhatcott1, FamilySearch Family Tree. LeRoy Parkinson Tanner served in the  141st Infan...

Lehi and the Brass Plates . John Tanner knew the name of his great-grandfather, so his son, Sidney Tanner, served as proxy for his grea...