By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 21, 2016 This is the paper I read at the Church History Symposium in Provo earlier this month. Three cheers for genealogists! From 1788 to 1961, my father’s ancestors lived in a small corner of western New York, in towns like Canandaigua and Palmyra. As a newly minted family historian in the 1980s, I benefitted from my non-Mormon ancestors’ proximity to the birthplace of Mormonism: those interested in Ch...
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