Last night was our monthly ward temple night. Instead of going through an endowment session, we had arranged for a couple of sealers to be available, and 16 of us did sealings. I’ve attended several sealings, and have done work once before for the deceased, but I had never done sealings for an hour and [...]

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This is a Frank & Ernest cartoon from Friday:

View the Genealogy category to see the other cartoons…

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I know there has been some discussion on various Mormon blogs recently about baptisms for the dead, and how other church’s perceive the practice. I’m not interested in debating that right now, but I figured I’d just share a little about our most recent trip.
My ward is about 120km away from the Toronto Ontario Temple. [...]

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Here is a cute Wizard of Id cartoon/comic from Friday, February 20, 2009 about the cost of tracing your family tree:

Interestingly enough, on Saturday, February 21, 2009 there was a similar theme for The Other Coast:

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As I mentioned before, I get emails that go to the Family History Consultants. An email I got a while ago had a link to an address that Elder L. Whitney Clayton gave to Family History Consultants in the Salt Lake, Jordan River, and Bountiful temple districts in late 2007. The email includes a link [...]

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is developing a new version of the FamilySearch.org Web site. This new Web site will help individuals identify ancestors and link them to families, and it will help Church members perform temple ordinances for their ancestors.
Can you volunteer an hour of time to help evaluate this new [...]

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The Church has a nice genealogical records search engine that they are testing. You can view it here or here. There are dozens and dozens of different records to search.

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