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 […]
The final day of Rootstech is known as Family Discovery Day — a day when the Church sponsors the event for youth and families. I was able to get two of my daughters to come for a visit. The effort is obvious. The more we engage our youth in family history they more inclined they […]