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Utah is famous for its big families, with seemingly endless branches of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and roots stretching back to Mormon pioneer days. ...
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Mormons are "world champion record keepers" in the eyes of Phillip Barlow.
The Arrington chairman of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University says LDS Church members, with all their journals, office records and genealogical information are unparalleled anywhere in the world.
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stick. On May 15 of this year - his birthday - he ended his research.
Now I want to offer to the world, and challenge them, to believe in what I've done," he said. "I got a lot to offer to the world.
Eley will be at New Hope Baptist Church in Suffolk at 3 p.m. Aug. 15, the 31st anniversary... Eley to go to New York City to go through Mormon Church records to help with his genealogy. While t...
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When the ancient system of Scottish tribes risked fading away two decades ago the 30th chief of the Carmichael clan turned to the Mormon Church.
That's where Richard Carmichael of Carmichael found thousands of genealogical records and the addresses for people around the world who shared his surname.
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SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized, a controversial ritual that Mormons believe allows deceased people a way to the afterlife but offends members of many other religions.
Wiesenthal died in 2005 after surviving the Nazi death camps and spending his life documenting Holocaust crimes and hunting down perpetrators who remained at large. Jews are particularly offended by any attempt to alter the religion of Holocaust victims, who were murdered because of their religion, and the baptism of Holocaust survivors was supposed to have been barred by a 1995 agreement.
Yet records indicate Wiesenthal's parents were baptized in pro...
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Energy loan watchdog donates to Obama campaign WASHINGTON -- A veteran Wall Street executive who performed an independent review that exonerated the Obama administration's program of loans to energy companies contributed $52,500 to re-elect President Barack Obama in the months since completing his work, according to a review of campaign records. The executive defended the integrity of his conclusions and said he decided to donate after his work was finished. The campaign contributions to Obama started just weeks after Herbert M. Allison Jr., in congressional testimony in March, minimized concerns that the Energy Department was at high risk in more than $23 billion in federal loans awarded to green energy firms. Allison did not make any Obama donations during his four- month review of E...
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Lt. Jack J. Saunders is finally .
Some 60 years after he died in a Korean Prisoner of War Camp, his mortal remains will be brought back and laid to rest in an Ogden cemetery.
... are followed: mitochrondrial DNA, dental records, eye-witness accounts, recovered artifacts. "We ra... used genealogists and records from the Mormon Church to help us dig out family members. We've so...
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The money that has helped underwrite his career in politics remains shrouded in considerable secrecy.
With a fortune estimated to be as large as a quarter of a billion dollars, Mitt Romney is among the wealthiest men ever to run for president of the United States.
... millions of dollars in donations to the Mormon Church and his continuing compensation from Bain C...Public records show that Mr. and Mrs. Romney have given $9.5 mill...
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If they don't throw it out, somebody ought to be shot," said William F. Brna. The subject was Obamacare.
Brna is a retiree, 81 and -- let's be clear -- nonviolent. But he's convinced the so-called Affordable Care Act won't be affordable. Nor freedom-enhancing. It's thicker than a phone book and all its tricks have yet to be seen.
...He got help from the Mormon Church, though not of that faith. The Mormon inter... countless family connections in church records throughout Europe. Brna found relatives he never e...
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Kimberly Elementary School, at 301 W. South Ave., opened in the fall of 1957.
The school was named for Helen Cheney Kimberly who, with her husband, John A. Kimberly, bought Cornelia Hill's French chateau- style mansion in 1905.
... in a new one room structure at Lugonia and Church. At that intersection stands a boulder, with a bro...They studied documents in the Mormon Church Library at Salt Lake. They translated the SSpanish-language records of the Mission San Gabriel. The "Heritage" will st...