It’s that time of year again for RootsTech! Rootstech is a genealogy conference for people of all skill levels and is sponsored by FamilySearch and other acclaimed genealogical organizations. The conference went virtual in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now returning as both a virtual and in-person conference this year. Rootstech will… Read More RootsTech This Week
My Great-Grandfather died doing temple and family history work. John B. Cannon was the oldest son of 11 kids whose father died at age 51 when he was only 19 years old. During his life, John always felt a strong need to care for and be with family. In the spring of 1983, the Cannon… Read More Visiting Relatives, Living and Passed Away
It was a few days before our son, Sam, was leaving for his mission to South Africa. We were in the kitchen marking off the list of “what to bring.” One item on the list was his genealogy fan chart. We had printed it off and were looking at it. ”I wonder who will be your special guardian… Read More Jacob and Mina
My grandfather, Fred Winters, was the youngest surviving child in a family of 16 children. They lived in New South Wales, Australia until after his father’s death, in 1904. A few years after George, Fred’s father, passed away, his mother, Reachel, and some of the younger children joined the Church and emigrated to Utah and… Read More People Are Waiting for You
A story from my mom’s childhood was turned into a children’s book! What a delightful way to share family history! My mom doesn’t talk much about herself so when she shared this story, I wanted to document it and this was a memorable way for her grandchildren and posterity. My 11 year old niece was visiting as… Read More A Fun Way to Share Family History: A Children’s Book
Some years ago I met a Hopi woman at her home high atop a desert plateau. She was a potter, who made clay vessels in their old traditional way. I asked about the designs on her pots, and what they meant. Some of them she described – for example, one was rain falling on the mesa and another… Read More Anything Can Be Family History
After her passing, my grandmother passed down a little carved wooden chest to her oldest granddaughter. During COVID, I contacted my cousin who inherited this chest and got the complete story from her. I have, of course, added it as a Memory on FamilySearch. Here is a summary: Grandmother’s father delivered mail by horse and buggy from… Read More A Gift From a Salesman
Recently my wife and I watched the documentary, “Mully.” It is a fascinating story about Charles Mully who was abandoned by his family as a young child in Kenya. He had nothing and initially went begging for food just to survive. His drive and ingenuity led him from rags to riches experiencing a stratospheric rise… Read More YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
This is Beth. She was born in 1919 – that was 100 years ago. Beth was the youngest child in her family. She had two older sisters and two older brothers. There was also an older sister that died as a child that Beth didn’t ever know. One Christmas when she was about 8 years old – I think… Read More Toe of My Stocking
In the First Presidency Christmas Devotional given earlier this month, Sister Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women General President, shared a story about a gift her father gave his brother for Christmas during the post-World War II era. Sister Cordon described this story as a gift to her because it taught her about sacrifice and reminded… Read More The Gift of a Family Story