Family history is professor's 'great joy'
At age 13, Susan Easton Black embarked on a quest for "great joy," one of the promises in a patriarchal blessing she received at that age.
As promised in the blessing, she found it via genealogy. But it has been for her not just a destination, but a lifelong journey.
A professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University, Black recounted that journey in the keynote address Friday (March 13) of the annual Conference on Computerized Family History, describing herself in the topic of her address as "A Novice in a Computer World."
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I haven't had much luck on the internet finding my ancestors. It...
jann | March 16, 2009 at 11:24 p.m.
thank you, yes there is great joy in finding your ancesters.
hbeckett | March 16, 2009 at 6:41 p.m.
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