Last week, a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million former slaves’ families and lives was announced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.?? The Utah-based ...

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Young members of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints indexed historical records of more than 20,000 individuals, making them accessible to genealogists and ...

Inmates in Utah, Arizona and Idaho have found a new hobby as indexing becomes all the rage even with prisoners who aren't members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 'Indexing gets in ...

Contact Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. at P.O. Box 901, Decatur, GA 30031 or gagensociety.org. The Freedmen's Bureau records, covering 1865 to 1872, are now digitized and available on familysearch.org, ...

CINCINNATI -- Earlier this month, FamilySearch International, the genealogical arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, turned over a newly indexed database of records of the Freedman’s ...

MARIETTA, Ohio — On a recent afternoon, Dan and Carolyn Grammer stood amid the towering, dusty bookshelves in the attic of the Washington County Courthouse, eager to work despite the daunting task ...

The LDS Church will spearhead a project to make searchable records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency Congress created at the end of the Civil War. On the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” the final ...

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L-R Addie Rund and Ginny Spargue works to digitize documents on Wednesday at the Johnson County Recorder's Office in Franklin. The recorder's office is hiring a company to help digitize and index more ...