Just as I was leaving Rootstech on Saturday afternoon I ran into an elderly man in a wheelchair. He was clearly struggling and I stopped to see if he was okay. He was short of breath. I was certain he was having a heart attack. The convention hall was packed as Saturday is Family Discovery […]
Everyone takes a first step into family history at some point in their life. For me that happened in 1985. I had returned home from my mission earlier that year and left California for Utah. I was working in downtown Salt Lake City, just a block away from the fairly new Church Family History Library. […]
In the month since launching this site I have had made some gratifying contacts and been able to share just a small fraction of the great family history we have. It is a beginning. But it is really just part of a larger journey that I began in earnest about three years ago that I […]
The years of our family history from 1714 to 1834 is something of an emotional journey for me. I think the more we invest in discovering the lives of our ancestors the more they jump off the page and become real to us. Such is certainly true of Jonathan Westover, brother to Jonas Jr. I […]
When I was a kid my Dad exposed me and my siblings to the satire of Stan Freberg and one of my favorites of all his stuff is the song “Take an Indian to Lunch”, from the classic Stan Freberg album The United States of America. I fear it forever tainted my view of Puritans. […]