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Rarely can a complete story be told of a pioneer ancestor that doesn’t come from a personal journal. But through good fortune we have been able to piece together the life Ann Findley Westover lived and present it here in a new video: We cannot help but think that more can be learned of this […]
We have enjoyed KBYU’s new reality series called Relative Race, on every Sunday night now. The premise of the show is that four couples compete for a cash prize as they travel from San Francisco to New York over ten days, searching for family members through DNA matches. My favorite part of each episode is […]
We are quickly approaching our 2016 Family History tour in New England. For more than a year we have had this marked on the calendar to visit sites of Westover Heritage in New England. One of the more enduring mysteries we are hoping to make progress on will be the lives of Amos and Ruth […]
My Dad sent me a scanned copy of a newspaper clipping from a school event when I was 11-years old. I’m pictured and mentioned in the clipping. On the surface, it is no big deal — just a fun moment from my history as a kid. But it kind of sparked a bit of anxiety […]
Perhaps one of the most overlooked areas of doing family history are the love stories of the couples who build the family. Every couple has a love story. Historians caution us that couples of the past did not always marry for love. Some married out of necessity and others married because of cultural traditions of […]