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=== Catholics in Early Non-Catholic Records === | === Catholics in Early Non-Catholic Records === | ||
Since Catholicism was to varying degrees illegal from 1559 to 1829 the state and state church (Anglican) monitored and tried to suppress it, resulting in a host of records at national and local levels. Gandy (''Basic facts about English Nonconformity for Family Historians''. Federation of Family History Societies, 1998) considers that Williams (''Sources for Recusant History (1559-1791) in English Official Archives'' | Since Catholicism was to varying degrees illegal from 1559 to 1829 the state and state church (Anglican) monitored and tried to suppress it, resulting in a host of records at national and local levels. Gandy (''Basic facts about English Nonconformity for Family Historians''. Federation of Family History Societies, 1998) considers that Williams (''Sources for Recusant History (1559-1791) in English Official Archives'', Recusant History Vol 16 #4, 1983) is the best source for recusant history and Gandy’s two 1996 bibliographies (''Catholic Family History: A Bibliography of General Sources''. Self-published and ''Catholic Family History: A Bibliography of Local Sources''. Self-published) indicate the vastness of the literature with comprehensive lists for every time period and area. | ||
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For information on records not available at the Family History Library, [http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/index.php contact the Catholic Record Society.] | For information on records not available at the Family History Library, [http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/index.php contact the Catholic Record Society.] | ||
== Huguenots == | == The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) == | ||
=== History and Beliefs === | |||
A restorative Christian-based religion founded by its Prophet of the early 19th-Century, Joseph Smith, Jr. His claims include a personal visitation by both God The Father and His Son, Jesus Christ in the spring of 1820, and subsequent angelic instructions which led directly to the discovery of a set or book of (metal) plates which contains ancient "Reformed Egyptian" writings of which he, as divinely instructed, translated into the Book of Mormon, along with other (now) canonized scriptures. It was organized in and commences from 6 April 1830 at Palmyra, in upper New York State, United States. Beliefs include among many others: belief in the immortality of each individual and eternal continuity of the families, sabbath day worship, belief in an eternal Father in Heaven Whose concerns and interests are centered in the details of each individuals' life, a firm belief in the grace and divinity of an Atonement wrought by The Messiah, Jesus Christ and that He will soon return in a "glorious Second coming, a belief that God works the same today as in ancient times--that Christ's ancient Church has been restored in similar manner as in those times--to include a living prophet and in Twelve Apostles, in the building of temples, | |||
Huguenots == | |||
=== History and Beliefs === | === History and Beliefs === | ||