An article about the Mormon War of 1838 and the order of Missouri Gov. Lilburn Boggs that the Mormons “must be exterminated or driven from the state.”.. (Read More)
An article about Utah’s special state holiday, “Pioneer Day,” which commemorates the arrival of the Mormons into the Salt Lake Valley on 24 July 1847... (Read More)
An article about the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr., who was assassinated by an angry crowd on 27 June 1844 inside the Carthage Jail in Illinois... (Read More)
An article about a new online resource that documents Mormon missionaries who served between 1830 and 1930, titled: “Early Mormon Missionaries.”.. (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena writes about her favorite ancestor Mary Ann, a Mormon who married a polygamist when she was 15 years old, in 1868. Do you have a favorite ancestor? Maybe it’s that one ancestor you... (Read More)
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