Entries Categorized as 'Mormon Church Family History (Genealogy)'

Sealing work at the temple

Date May 22, 2009

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 [...]

Another family history cartoon…

Date March 9, 2009

This is a Frank & Ernest cartoon from Friday:

View the Genealogy category to see the other cartoons…

Baptisms for the Dead

Date February 24, 2009

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. [...]

The cost of tracing your family tree…

Date February 23, 2009

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:

Recent Family Search training

Date January 15, 2009

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 [...]

Request for Family History Consultants to Find Evaluators for the New FamilySearch.org Web Site

Date August 20, 2008

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 [...]

FamilySearch Record Search

Date July 23, 2008

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.