At the prodding of a friend I’ve started trying out Geni again, and it’s definitely starting to grow on me. (It’s sort of like Facebook but for genealogy.) …
The Archives: Genealogy
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In our stake council meeting on Tuesday, one of the high councilmen shared an experience he’d had in driving out to Virginia with his wife on a whim. They …
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working with journals of a number of prominent Latter-day Saints — people like Hyrum Smith, W.W. Phelps, Parley P. Pratt, and Emmeline …
Today I’ve been going through a dozen or two of the diaries in Special Collections. Most of them are from early Latter-day Saints, since that is of course our …
There’s a song by Michael McLean called “Light on a Distant Hill,” and it’s been giving me goosebumps every time I listen to it. I can’t really do …
I got an e-mail today saying I was accepted as a beta tester for the latest FamilySearch beta, so I went ahead and signed up, and when I logged in …
8. Just do it
My mother’s aunt died a year ago and so I stopped by the BYU family history center to prepare her name for the temple (TempleReady isn’t working from the genealogy …
I think I’ve found my new obsession: travel books. Not touristy/glitzy kinds, but the good ones. A day or two ago I was thinking to myself about my …
I wish I were black.
Well, kind of. :) After reading One More River to Cross (a novel about black Mormons back in the 1800s) and talking about African-influenced music …
11. Captain’s log
For a while I’ve been meaning to take my journals (I always called them logs, probably after Star Trek, but that could be confused with the logs in /var/logs, so …
I’ve been listening to some Loreena McKennitt music lately, and also reading C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces (which takes place in a barbaric country on the border of …
13. Pearl Harbor
Earlier this evening I called my grandmother to wish her a happy birthday. I’d only intended to talk for five or ten minutes, but I’d been reading Rumors of …
I was reading along in Sir Orfeo for my Middle English class earlier today when I came across these lines:
Þer were trompours and tabourers,
Harpours fele and crouders;
Now, I’ve known for …
15. A will and a way
This morning after I left the temple, an idea came into my head. It looked roughly like this:
And now, eleven hours later (with an hour …
I wasn’t able to attend the Family History & Genealogy Conference this year (I did last year), but they’ve already posted Marlin K. Jensen’s keynote from yesterday (thanks …
[I wrote this over on the Beyond blog, but it’s an exciting enough idea that I figured I’d crosspost it so y’all can get an idea of how cool …
I’m in the middle of giving birth.
Not to a human child, of course (and now you no doubt have images of some alien creature emerging out of me, which is …
19. Shallow roots
Matt Crenson’s written an article for the Associated Press about the interrelatedness of the human family tree:
Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East …
Yesterday after home teaching, I came up here to the lab where I work to prepare my FHE lesson and do some research on my genealogy (as mentioned in yesterday’s …
I’m drooling.
Maybe that’s not the most elegant way to start off a post, nor is it literally true, but I sure feel like I’m drooling. See, I’ve been checking …
Yup, another blog. :) It’s called Footprints from the Past, and it’s going to be the record of my genealogical research. (I figured that I need a …
Decided to typeset the will of my ancestor Robert Shanks so I could have a nice PDF version to put in my files. Also did the legislative petition he …
Early this morning I decided to take the 6:50 bus to the Provo temple. On my walk up to campus (I left at 6:30), I only saw three people. …
