Good genealogy quotes from RootsTech

* Jim Green: "The work may be all done, but turning our hearts may not be." He quoted  President Joseph Fielding Smith:  "Even if all your work is done, then it is your personal responsibility to study and become acquainted with your ancestors." 

* Elder Bradley D. Foster encouraged us to "discover the dash" (meaning the dash between an ancestor's birth year and death year on a headstone), that our whole history lies within it.

The goal of this blog has been help us become acquainted with our ancestors and discover their dashes, so I feel great about that!

Pioneer wagon trains

Pioneers Who Crossed the Plains Before 1869

Our oldest ancestor who came to Utah was John Woodland, age 74; the youngest was Victor Hegsted, an infant in arms.  Several crossed the plains more than once returning from missions or the Mormon Battalion.  The females are listed in the alphabetical order of married name as in biographical section, but name used at the time of crossing is noted with future married name in italics.  Interesting to note that John and Eliza Welch started out in the William Snow/Joseph Young Company of 1850, but continued their journey in 1852; the WS/JY Co is the same group that the John and Celia Woodland family traveled with—little knowing that their grandchildren John Welch and Unita Woodland would marry.  Asa Calkin was also in that company with the Woodlands.  The Sanders family traveled in the same company as Sylvia and Clarissa Eastman.  The Grovers, Everetts, and Billingtons all arrived together.

Pioneer ships

Pioneers Who Sailed to Zion

Maiden Voyage exhibit

For my library class on special collections, I made an online exhibit entitled "Maiden Voyage: Mother Daughter Pioneers" using our Jacobsen, Scarborough, Eastman, Rogers, Thorne ancestors.  You may view the exhibit here and hear my explanation here.  In the interest of historical accuracy, it must be noted that the Jacobsen women were accompanied by Birthe's new husband/Mary's step-father Christian Poulsen, but for the sake of the assignment I needed to include them as is. 

what a fun party!

As a helpful guide for current or future users of this site, I created a quick blog overview tour.  Enjoy!

Happy 70th anniversary!

Happy 90th birthday, GMW!