Last week, a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million former slaves’ families and lives was announced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.?? The Utah-based ...
Inmates in Utah, Arizona and Idaho have found a new hobby as indexing becomes all the rage even with prisoners who aren't members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 'Indexing gets in ...
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Young members of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints indexed historical records of more than 20,000 individuals, making them accessible to genealogists and ...
CINCINNATI -- Earlier this month, FamilySearch International, the genealogical arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, turned over a newly indexed database of records of the Freedman’s ...
Contact Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. at P.O. Box 901, Decatur, GA 30031 or gagensociety.org. The Freedmen's Bureau records, covering 1865 to 1872, are now digitized and available on familysearch.org, ...
Twenty miles outside Salt Lake City, a massive man-made bunker known as The Vault stretches nearly 700 feet into a mountain of granite. Sealed behind colossal doors designed to survive a nuclear ...
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The LDS Church will spearhead a project to make searchable records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency Congress created at the end of the Civil War. On the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” the final ...
L-R Addie Rund and Ginny Spargue works to digitize documents on Wednesday at the Johnson County Recorder's Office in Franklin. The recorder's office is hiring a company to help digitize and index more ...