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PDF Format A PDF file is a type of file format developed by Adobe. In order to view and print the documents below, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download from Adobe). Use completed family group records and other information you have gathered to fill out a pedigree chart. Follow these steps: Write the name of the first individual on line 1 of the pedigree chart. Fill in the details about the individual. If the individual was married, fill in the details about the spouse. 8.5' x 11' family group sheet, 11 children (5 on front), printed on acid free paper.
The Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints has amassed a wealth of genealogical resources for Mormon and non-Mormon genealogists alike; in fact, the Church's Genealogical Society of Utah has been collecting genealogical data for over 100 years!
The original church was organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Oliver Cowdery and 30 followers in the Palmyra/Manchester district of New York. Over the course of time, there were various divisions and sects, but Brigham Young unified the church and incorporated it in 1851 under the title of Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the church remains to this day.
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Most Mormons live in Utah, but the Church indicates that the bulk of their followers do not reside in the United States at all. Consequently, the Church provides centers full of genealogical resources all over the world.
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A Valuable Genealogical Resource
The former Genealogical Society of Utah is now known as FamilySearch and provides all types of genealogical records on their website. You can key in the name of your ancestor in their database, and you can search for information from the vital records index, social security death index, pedigree resource file and a host of others. FamilySearch has working relationships with governments, libraries, societies and churches, which is how they can provide access to so much detailed information.
Not only can you search digitized records on FamilySearch's website, but you can also order records held in the Family History Library in Utah. These records can be shipped to any Family History Center in the world for a marginal fee. Many of the records are in microfiche form and are not yet digitized. There are Family History Centers worldwide, and they contain all kinds of church records and documents that are useful to genealogists.
Family History Centers
The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah is the place where almost all of the genealogical information that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has collected resides. There are also numerous Family History Centers worldwide (approximately 3,500 of them). These history centers help decrease the necessity for families researching their histories to travel all the way to Salt Lake City. The majority of the electronic data collections are available at history centers worldwide. No charge is required to use the history center or the Family History Library. They are staffed by volunteers who gladly assist visitors in finding information on their families.
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With a rich and lengthy history, the Mormon faith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints can offer fascinating information to descendents of this faith, and to those not of this faith. By following the potential leads generated in this article, you can create a valuable ancestral history that you can keep in your family for generations. Getting started on your journey is the hard part. Once you do, however, you won't be able to stop.
The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) has always placed a great deal of emphasison knowing who your ancestors are. They had a program in placefor a long time ( I have no idea how long.) where their members were supposedto submit their 4 or 5 generations of family group sheets. Some membersdid a lot more than that. Some took books like the one by EdmundDana Barbour and compiled them onto family group sheets. (I'm surethat some of the research came from Orange Chapin's Genealogy Book.) These very old family group sheets only had about a 1 inch square for documentingsources so the sources are rather cryptic and don't always make much sense. The newer ones had about a one-inch strip at the bottom of the legal-sizedsheets.
These family groupsheets are arranged alphabetically. They are easy to read for themost part and best of all, they were linked! Where one of the parentshad an asterisk * or star, it meant they appeared as a child with theirparents on another group sheet. I followed countless families back. If the children had an asterisk * then that meant that the child appearedas a parent with their spouse on another family group sheet. I didn'tcollect as many collateral lines as a I could have. I wish now thatI had done more of these. I do have photocopies of most of the familygroup sheets and if you want me to look up the sheet to see whether ornot there is a family group for your member of a family, I can do that--aslong as the source or notes say that I got it from a FGR (family grouprecord) in the FHL.
When I was new at documenting,I just put the FHL library film number of the microfilm in the notes ofmy computer program. There was more written on the sheets, but facedwith the monumental tasks of entering thousands into the computer, I chosenot to do it. I wish now that I had. The program that I firstused, PAF or Personal Ancestral File put out by the LDS Church, only hada NOTES section to put documentation in. There weren't any sourcefiles at all until this most recent version of PAF. You'll noticethat most of my documentation is in these note files rather than in sourcefiles. At some point I'll get them all converted, but I don'tthink it will be anytime soon.
If you are LDS andwant Ordinance information I can send you gedcoms with it on there. At any rate, I do have more documentation on some of these families. At some point I plan to go back and redo the notes to be sources and I'llhave the original source information from the family group sheets in thenew source files.