While I was in Italy, doing my husband’s genealogy was tedious, and at times dirty and a bit iffy, but the heavy, delicate volumes were at my gloved fingertips – up to a point: while the tomes went back as far as the early 1500s, some of his ancestors only came to the city we lived in, in 1710. Now, a great deal of this information is available at http://familysearch.com. I am now working on my own family’s genealogy and am finding names that heretofore were unavailable.
Indexing is a project that the Church began in 2006 to further assist in searching for our ancestors. It consists of looking at original documents and entering the information found into the Church archives. This is done on a voluntary basis, and anyone who wishes to participate in this project may, whether they are members of the Church or not; just click on the hyperlink in the preceding paragraph and then click on indexing if you are interested.
The Church’s interest in genealogical research is based on the scripture introducing this article. If you are interested in knowing more about WHY it is so important to us, you will need to wait for the letter “T” in this series.
1Malachi 4:5-6 (Old Testament)
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I had no idea the church was so heavily involved in genealogy, Mary. How great to have all this information at your disposal! Looking forward to your "T" post. ☺
ReplyDeleteIt really is great. I need to see if maybe I can get some more of Nino's work done, following up on the line that came from the other city, which as the crow flies, was fairly close, but following the roads, THAT is a different matter.
DeleteJ here, stopping by from the #atozchallenge - where I am part of the A to Z Ambassador Team! (I'm a minion/volunteer under Arlee.)
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I'm looking forward to more. Let me know if I can help you in any blogging way this month. I've followed you on your listed social media sites.
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Interesting. A large portion of my family isn't on those sites. The Lenni-Lenape never tell our true name to people (the Name Giver and perhaps one other person are the only ones to know). So we weren't documented. That, and by the time our tribe was legally considered human, most of us were dead.
Hi J. They used to have a Native American section that was completely different from the others, because it listed only first names. I know, because I looked up some of my Cherokee ancestors. But that was like 10 years or so ago and many things have changed. I'll look into it if you'd like. I'm glad you enjoyed the post--genealogy is one of my passions, and I've written three other articles about it.
DeleteWhen I was in college I researched a lot of my family history. I keep thinking one day I'll get back into it again. Now that we have online access to so much information, I should be able to fill in a lot of holes. (Visiting A to Z!)
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