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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...

John Tanner's son Elisha practiced medicine in Manhattan from the 1830s through the 1840s or 1850s. This map shows his places of wo...

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...

... reposting from 2014 ... Here is a short guide to researching Mormon ancestry,  including a summary of some of the more useful r...

Ebenezer DeFriez was the older brother of Charles Godfrey DeFriez Jarvis. Jim Bowden has just written an excellent, detailed history of ...

The parents of Frances Ann Elizabeth Glade were recent immigrants to the United States. Frances's mother, Eliza Mary Litson, arriv...