Sunday thought: Family history

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By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

2nd Sunday before Advent

In five days I have gone from little interest in family history (or better put, feeling I had no time to prioritise it) to burning the midnight oil trawling through old censuses and BMD records. Tolkien once said that all cosmic music — even the bad — will eventually bend to God’s harmony; in the case of the evils of the Great War it seems that one small positive is a renewed interest in family history in Britain. This was my conversion: I went to a talk on Remembrance Day about the battle of Gheluvelt fought in 1914 by my local regiment (the Worcestershires). My interest piqued — and being a Worcestershire man — I typed some family names into Family Search and became aware of the service of a number of g-grand uncles.  One was badly injured at Ypres in 1917 and reading his medical records was…

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Ordain Women, Women’s Ordination

Very cogent.

An address to all believers in Christ (1887) by David Whitmer

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The Gospel and the Church

A great sermon by a great man.

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Adam-ondi-Ahman

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Salt Lake 5th Ward Chapel

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The Granite Stake Tabernacle

Why do I love building histories so much? I may never know. Good work Madam Mormon Times.

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