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

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...

I'll be speaking in the Dallas area on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Here are details. ( Link .) A quick update since I...

The youth of my Philadelphia-area LDS stake are participating in "Trek" this year and I am helping prepare historical information...

Last week I had the amazing experience of giving a presentation at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. Here is a promotion for the...

Due to the events of the past few days, here are some portraits of refugees. One was a peace-loving man who fled Denmark to avoid conscript...

Just one New Year's Resolution this coming year: finish my book. The book is called Slaves in Zion: African American Servitude ...

I finally checked my husband's Memorial Day email from FamilySearch . Here are the results: Ancestor Column 3/10 (Seriously!)...

Today FamilySearch sent the following email... It was bemusing since I have an ancestor with that name, but not with those dates or b...

Not long ago the counter on this blog passed 250,000. That's not much compared to some blogs, but nothing I could have imagined when I b...

This post is originally from November 25, 2010, but since the information and sentiments are still true, here it is again [and again in 201...

As time moves on, the meaning and experience of memory and grief shifts and changes. Anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, reunions come and ...

From Wikipedia . As the descendant of those who used Perpetual Emigrating donations to gather to Zion, and a descendant of others who...

A few weeks ago as I was transcribing Ann Prior Jarvis's diary, I realized that most days she just wrote a line or two but over time...

Before the modern correlated era, the Relief Society was largely in charge of its own finances and programs. In many pioneer communitie...

Happy Pioneer Day! The Family History Library emailed out an interesting link to registered users it identified as having Mormon pionee...

It's the Fourth of July, a day to celebrate America, to celebrate the birth of independence, to celebrate our liberties. Have a lov...

Don't miss my review of the new memberships soon available to members of the LDS Church. It posted yesterday at Keepapitchinin: The M...

I've been resisting getting more involved in the field of genealogy, but with a recent call to serve as a Family History Consultant ...

For Good Friday  tomorrow, this is “ O sacred head, sore wounded ” from Bach's St Matthew Passion . The original oratorio was written i...