Mormon genealogy library is open to allMENLO PARK – Marian Hill isn’t Mormon, but her favorite pastime includes regular visits to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For three ...

Mormon genealogy library unveils a fun new way to discover your roots Genealogy • Family History Library’s “discovery experience” offers interactive trip through visitors’ pasts.

The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by proxy. ...

Three years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court made gay marriage legal in every state, but the LDS Church still hasn’t listed same-sex couples in its massive genealogy databank. Not ...

Do Mormon Genealogy Records Include Black People? I am trying to learn more about my family’s history. My mother, Ora Lean Johnson, is from Alexandria or Shreveport, La.

The Brigham Young University Mormon Battalion Project website (mormonbattalion.byu.edu) is currently the only place where scanned images of the complete set of Mormon Battalion muster rolls dating ...

What Obama and Mormon leader Thomas Monson discussed about Obama’s family, and what they didn’t ...

Despite the interest of the non-Mormons at the conference (some 40% of the 8,000 attending), the Mormon concern with genealogy and record keeping is still resolutely religious.

Although the Mormon Church now says its policy limits posthumous baptisms to direct ancestors of its members, it acknowledges that the policy is sometimes violated.

Reporter, covering a bit of everything. A large genealogy database sponsored by the Mormon church has said it will soon allow same-sex couples to submit their information. But that does not ...

The Mormon church's family history research center has signed a new agreement with Ancestry.com in a project to make 1 billion new genealogical records available to the public.