L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Theodore McKean family record book (MSS SC 1990). This item is a handwritten record book that documents the genealogy of the McKean family. It also includes a short autobiography of Theodore McKean. He describes his youth, his conversion to the Mormon …
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June 26, 2017 by Ryan K. Lee •
family bible,
Far West,
genealogy,
Hyrum Smith,
Illinois,
Jerusha Smith,
Joseph Smith Sr.,
Kirtland,
Lucy Mack Smith,
Missouri,
Nauvoo,
Ohio,
property records,
William Marks,
William Robinson
As we prepare to remember the lives of Joseph and Hyrum Smith on the 173rd anniversary of their deaths on June 27th, L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of additional documents from the Hyrum Smith papers (Vault MSS 774) that were recently digitized. These include property records and a family record. The …
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June 19, 2017 by Ryan K. Lee •
California Mission,
Central States Mission,
Doyle S. Jensen,
family histories,
genealogy,
Idaho,
journals,
Kirsten Marie Sorensen Jensen,
Louis Reuben Jensen,
missionaries,
Southern States Mission,
Swiss and German Mission,
Winston McKay Jensen
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Jensen family journals and histories (MSS 6189). This collection contains journals and family histories of members of the Jensen family, including Louis Reuben Jensen, Kirsten Marie Sorensen, Doyle S. Jensen, and Winston McKay Jensen. Most of the diaries deal …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Edward Schoenfeld autobiography. The item includes a handwritten autobiography (three leaves), genealogy of the Schoenfeld and Springall families (two leaves), and a postcard of Tansberg, Germany, where Edward was born. Edward Schoenfeld was born in Germany in 1832. He married Ottilie …
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