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GENERAL LDS CHURCH INFORMATION:

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* All About Mormons
*
BYU Master's Theses on Mormonism
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  Official LDS talks, scriptures and church doctrine.
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  Wikipedia® references.
* DeseretBook.com - Mormon Life
* Directory of Mormon Websites
*
Encyclopedia of Mormonism: Reviewed
*
HBLL: Step-by-Step and Research Guides
*
International Resources for Latter-day Saints
*
Latter-day Village
*
LDSFiles.com
* LDSIndex.org
* Liberty, Doctrine, and Self-Suffiency
*
Links to Mormon or LDS Sites
* Mormon Studies: A to Z List - Resources 
* Mormonhaven.com
*
Mormonism: Mormon Beliefs
* Mormons on the Internet
*
My LDS Links
* Portal:Latter-day Saints
* Top LDS Links and Web Sites

LDS BELIEFS & SCRIPTURES: Beliefs and Practices
*
Articles of Faith
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  Official LDS site for talks, scriptures and doctrine.
* FAIR: Guide - Links
  Foundation for apologetic information & research.
*
GospeLink.com and Lessons
*
Journal of Discourses
* Learn more about the Church (Mormons)
*
MormonWiki
  Mormonism, the LDS church, beliefs and religion.

*
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
* Scriptures
  - Book of Abraham Project

              
  -
Book of Mormon Online
    - Another Testament of Jesus Christ
    - Portal:Book of Mormon
  - Doctrine & Covenants Sites

* SHIELDS (for Latter-day Saints)
  Scholarly and historical information exchange.

LDS BLOGS - CHAT - FORUMS - MAILING LISTS:
*
Blogregate at Mormon Blogs

*
FamilySearch Forums - Beta
* LDS and Mormon Blogs
*
LDS Genealogy Resources and Forums
*
LDS Mailing Lists - LDS Mail.net
*
LDS Mormon Forums
*
LDS Talk: chat, forums, blogs, email for LDS
* LDSblogs.com
* LDSBlogs.org
*
LDSFiles.com - Discussion Forums
*
More Good Foundation Blog
* Mormon Apologetics & Discussion Board
*
Nauvoo - A Gathering Place for Latter-day Saints
*
Sustain'd
* Yahoo! Groups : LDS Genealogy

LDS EDUCATION: BeSmart
*
BYU - Brigham Young University
  - BYU Alumni Association:
Alumni
  - BYU Hawaii
  - BYU Idaho
  - BYU Jerusalem: Near Eastern Studies
  - BYU: MyBYU News
  - BYU: Digital Collections
  - BYU Salt Lake Center
  - BYU Stake and Ward Information
* Church Educational System (CES)
* CES: Continuing Education Programs
*
Honor Code - The Honor Code Office
* Institute of Religion Locator
* LDS Business College
*
Mormon Translations
* National LDS Homeschool Association
  -
LDS Homeschooling in California
  -
School of Abraham
*
Southern Virginia University

LDS LIFE: Culture
* Christianity - Latter Day Saints
* CTR-Links Commercial Sites

* Deseret Management Corporation
  -
Business Divisions
* Family Home Evening
* FatherWork
  Stories, ideas, and activities to encourage
  generative fathering.  "The most important...
  work you and I will ever do will be within
  the walls of our own homes."

        
     President Harold B. Lee

* Forever Families
* Films by Latter-day Saint Filmmakers
* Latter-Day Mac includes Apple
Music Downloads
* LatterDaySaintBooks.Com
*
LDS Clipart and Mormon Art
  - Inspire Graphics
  -
LDS Art - Online Art Gallery
  - LDS Church Approved Clipart
* LDS Living
  Books, day-planners and temple gifts.
*
LDS Philanthropies
* LDSProducts.com™
* Living Family and Fun Portal
  ". . . to maintain and strengthen the family
  as the fundamental unit of society."
  - The Family: A Proclamation to the World
* MSTAR Internet Services

* Mormon Life
* Mormon Literature and Database
  -
Mormon-J: The LDS Journal-list
    LDS journalists and other historians resources.

* Osmond.com
* Provident Living
  Spiritual and temporal welfare.
* Publishers of Mormon Content
  -
DeseretBook.com
    Books, DVDs, music, art & more for LDS families
.
* Seagull Book and Tape®
* SINGLES:
TheLDSSinglesSite
  - LDS Mingle® - LDS Pals
  - LDS Singles Online® - LDSRomances.com
* Youth
  -
LDS.org - Youth
  -
Young LDS
  - Young Women Connection

LDS MISSIONARIES: Mission: District - Branch
* Cumorah Project
* DearElder.com
* Foreign Languages: Translations & Translators
* LDS Mission Network™
* LDS Philanthropies:
Humanitarian Services
*
Liahona Missionary Depot
*
Mission and Service Opportunities
* MissionSite.net Missionary & General LDS Links
* Mormon Missionary Diaries
*
MTC: Missionary Training Center

LDS MUSIC: Latter-day Saints Hymns
*
Amazon.com: Mormon: Music
*
Jackman Music for Latter-day Saints
* KZION - LDS Internet Radio
  -
LDS Radio Online
* LDS Church Music

* LDSMusicNews.com
* LDSMusicOnline.com
* LDS Music World

* Mormon Tabernacle Choir
* Musicians and Artists

LDS ORGANIZATION: Priesthood (LDS Church)
* Curriculum: LDS programs
  - Aaronic Priesthood
  - LDSScouting.org
    - Merit Badges
    - Boy Scout Genealogy Merit Badge
    - Genealogy Merit Badge - Google™ Video
    - Scouting Guidebooks
    - World Organization of Scouting
  - Home and Family
  - Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society
  - Optional Courses
  - Primary
  - Sunday School
  - Teaching and Leadership
  - Young Women
* Distribution Services
  Find LDS products, obtain information
  about them and order items online.
*
LDSTeach.com
  Home and Visiting Teachers.

* Patriarch: The Stake Patriarch
  Patriarchs benefit the posterity of the saints.
  -
LDS Books: Understanding Patriarchal Blessings
  - Patriarchal Blessing Request Form
* Primary Helps and Ideas
  Great ideas for children, teachers and leaders.
* Record-Keeping and Auditing Training
  -
Clerks, Leaders, and Members: Working Together
* Relief Society: Introduction
and Relief Society Art
  "Charity Never Faileth"
*
Stake: Ward [LDS.org - Annual History]
  - LDS Maps - Search: US Stake & Ward Web Sites
    Meetinghouses and local worship services
.

LDS REGIONAL INFORMATION:
* Chinese LDS Resources
* European Mormon Studies Association
  - Western Europe - British Isles: Genealogy & FH
    - BBC - Religion & Ethics - Mormonism
    - British Mormon Historical Society
    - LDS Country Website of the British Isles
* LDS Canada
*
LDS Church In Latin America: Bibliography
* Pacific Internet Resources
  - Polynesian Cultural Center
    -
Polynesian Culture, Facts, Information, & Photos
* United States of America: Search USA Genealogy
  - California State Information
  -
Portal:Utah - FamilySearchWiki
    (Category:Utah - FamilySearchWiki)
    - UGA Utah Web Links
* Worldwide LDS Country Sites
  -  Area (LDS Church) and
District (LDS Church)

LDS FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY RESEARCH:

CHURCH HISTORY RESOURCES: Church Archives
* BYU Studies:
History of the Church
  LDS books and research.
  -
BYU Historic Journals Collection
* Church and Pioneer History of the LDS Church
*
Church History Library Use Guide (Family History)
* Church History Maps
* Historic Nauvoo
*
History of the Church
  Complete work in HTML
.
* Joseph Smith, Jr.:
The Parallel Joseph
  First Prophet, Seer, Revelator, Translator
  and President of The Church of Jesus Christ
  of Latter-day Saints.
  - Annotated History of the Church
    Referring to modern research into the events
    narrated by Joseph Smith, Jr. and his clerks.
  - Joseph Smith, Jr. Family Organization
  -
Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Foundation
  - Journals and Diaries:
The Joseph Smith Papers
    Biographies and autobiographies: some
    early mormons and others who knew
    Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or his contemporaries.
  - Photograph: Joseph Smith, Jr.

* LDS Church Chronology:
Source Information
*
LDS History and Doctrine
*
List of Latter Day Saint Periodicals: Latter Day Saint
* Miscellaneous Books
* Mormon History Guide from NY Public Library
* Mormon History Association and Links
* Mormon Pioneers
  - Tracing Mormon Pioneers and Related Links
    For those
that belonged to The Church of
    Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the
    Mormon migration period of 1846- 1868 and later.

*
Mormons and Their Neighbors
  Persons living between 1820 and 1981 in
  northern Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona,
  southern California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho,
  Wyoming, and southwestern Canada.
*
Mormons Research | Find Mormons Articles
* Museum of Church History and Art
* Places To Visit
  -
Far West Cultural Center
  -
Heritage Gateways
    Mormon trail wagon train
.
  - Hill Cumorah
* Photographs of Church History Sites
*
Research Guidance: Early Church Information File
*
Studies in Mormon History

FAMILY GENEALOGY & HISTORY: FH Blog

Scholarly world wide resource links.

* BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY SITES:
  - BYU Broadcasting - Family History Firesides & Links
  - Center for Family History and Genealogy
    - CFHG: Guides and Tutorials
  - Continuing Education
    - Conferences and Workshops
 
  - Finding Your Ancestors
    - Independent Study Free FH Courses
    - Providing Temple Ordinances
  - Department of History
  - Family Search Lab: FHC Computer Definitions

  - Libraries and Museums
    - David O. McKay (BYU Idaho):
Special Collections
    - Harold B. Lee:
Databases A-Z
      - Digital Collections
        - Family History Archive
      -
Genealogical Microforms
    -
Howard W. Hunter Law Library
    -
Joseph F. Smith (BYU Hawaii)
  - Religion 261 - Intro. to Family  History
  - School of Family Life
* Crash Course in Family History:
Book Contents (pdf)
  Step-by-step illustrated guidebook
  to genealogy and family history.
* Databases of the Dead

*
DearMYRTLE: Blog and Read:
Genealogy Lessons
* Easy Family History
  -
Best of Internet -
Blog - Help - LDS Center
    Learning Center -
Store - Teaching Aids
* Find Your Family Tree.com (CD)
* Genealogy Lessons: Beyond the Veil
  Using LDS family history resources.
* Genealogy Links
* Genealogy Mormons at Genealogy Guide
* Genealogy Resources
*
Online Catalog - Family History
  LDS online distribution services.
* PAF - Personal Ancestral File,
  Personal Ancestral File Forum and
  Personal Ancestral File User Groups,
  such as the Utah Valley - UT and the
  Silicon Valley - CA groups, provide
  resources,
assist in managing free PAF
  software downloads for records and
  exchange of research information.
*
Portal:Tracing LDS Ancestors - FamilySearchWiki
  -
Category:Tracing LDS Ancestors

* Why Family History?

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY - SLC UTAH:
Family History Library, in SLC, UTAH,
is the world's largest genealogy library,
with the adjacent FamilySearch™ Center.
* CDROMs at the SLC Library
  Create CD-ROMs containing digital
  images of microfilm and microfiche.
* Cyndi's List - LDS & Family History Centers
* Family History Library Favorites:
Internet Bookmarks

  - International: World Resources
    - British
    - Canada & US:
US States
    - South America

  -
News & Events
 
- Search Engines

* GSU Worldwide Activities
* Mormon Genealogy

*
Preparing to visit the SLC FH Library
* SLC FH Library Floor Plans
* SLC FH Library Catalog
* SLC FH Library FamilySearch™
* SLC FH Library History
* SLC FH Library Record Collections


REPRESENTATIVE FH CENTERS:
FH Centers from FamilySearch™
* About Family History Centers
* Belgium LDS FH Centers [Belgium Europe]
* Brigham Young University [UT US]
  BYU center for family history and genealogy.
  - BYU - Idaho FHC [ID - US]: Special Collections
* Camden County FHC [NJ US]
* Dartmouth FHC [NS Canada]
*
Haftford Stake FHC [CT US]
*
Howell FHC [MI US]
*
Las Vegas Regional FHC [NV US]
* Lethbridge FHC [AB Canada]
*
Logan Regional FHC [UT US]
*
London FH Centre [England UK]
*
Los Angeles FHC [CA US]
* Mesa Regional FHC [AZ US]
* New York City FHC [NY US]
* Oakland Regional FHC [CA US]
*
Ogden Regional FHC [UT US]
* Orange Regional FHC [CA US]
*
Pocatello Regional FHC [ID US]
* Sacramento FHC [CA US]
* San Diego FH Centers [CA US]

* Sons of Utah Pioneers FHC [UT US]
* St. George Regional FHC [UT US]
* Utah County FH Centers [UT US]
  - Utah South Area - Provo FHC [UT US]
* Vernal FHC [UT US]
*
Victoria FH Centre [BC Canada]

SYSTEM FHC & FHL RESOURCES:
* 25 FHC Research Tips
* Administering Family History
  Priesthood and auxiliaries

* Ancestry.com
  Fee and selected free based online resources.
  -
Latter-day Saint Records
* Family History Consultants: Helps and Links
* Family History Library System
*
Family History Resources
* Family Record Extraction Program
*
FamilySearch: FamilySearch.org - News
  -
FamilySearch Forums - Beta
  - FamilySearchWiki
*
FHC Computer Specialists : fhctech
*
FHCNET Mailing List
  For directors and others closely associated
  with operations of LDS family history centers.
* FHCWiki
*
LDS Church Internet Learning System
*
LDS FHC - Connecticut Records - US
*
LDS FHC - Irish: County Monaghan

* LDS FHC - Scottish Genealogy
* LDS FHL - Jewish Records
*
LDS Microfilms
  -
Using LDS Microfilms - FIBIwiki
   
India genealogy example: Church Records.
*
LDSTech: LDSTech Wiki
  How technology is being used by the LDS church.

*
Microform
  Microfilm (reels) and microfiche (flat sheets).
* Ten Frequently Asked Questions

TEMPLES and PRIESTHOOD ORDINANCE WORK

* How Do I Begin . . .
  - International Genealogical Index
    -
IGI Batch Numbers
    - IGI - International Genealogical Index
    - Using the Batch Numbers
  - New FamilySearch
  - Submitting Names to the Temple
  - Temple and Family History Work
  -
TempleReady
* List of Temples - Wikipedia®
  - Current Temples - Schedules
  -
HOUSE of The LORD
  -
Individual Temple Pages
  - LDS Church Temples.com
  -
Temple Preparation FAQ
    - Dressed in White
  -
Visit Temple Square

WORLDWIDE INFORMATION and HISTORY:
*
Ancient and Modern Genealogies
  - Sub Books:  The Stick of: Judah (Nathan) and Levi
* Bible Artifacts
  -
Ark of the Covenant
(Images)
* Early Tabernacle in the Wilderness
* Ensign and New Era: Family History & Genealogy
* First Temples Sites
  -
Holy Temple
 
- King Solomon's Temple
* Temple Information
* Temple (Latter Day Saints)

The Church has established two special times for families to be together. The first is centered around the proper
observance of the Sabbath day.  This is the time we are to attend our regular meetings together, study the life
and teachings of the Savior and of the prophets.          . . .         “Other appropriate Sunday activities include:
(1) writing personal and family journals, (2) holding family councils, (3) establishing and maintaining family
organizations for the immediate and extended family, (4) personal interviews between parents and children,
(5) writing to relatives and missionaries, (6) genealogy, (7) visiting relatives and those who are ill
or lonely, (8) missionary work, (9) reading stories to children, and (10) singing Church hymns.”
L. Tom Perry, “The Importance of the Family,” Ensign, May 2003, pg. 40..




After this vision had closed, another great and glorious vision burst upon us; for Elijah the prophet,
who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood before us, and said: "Behold, the time has
fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi -- testifying that he [Elijah] should be
sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come -- to 
turn the hearts of the fathers to
the children, and the children to the fathers
, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse
-- Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye
may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors."
D&C  110:13-16

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