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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 prophets similar to Biblical prophets. As instructed, he translated these ancient writings into a book of scripture, called the Book of Mormon | 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 visitations with instructions which led directly to the discovery of a set or book of (metal) plates which contains ancient "Reformed Egyptian" writings of prophets similar to Biblical prophets. As instructed, he translated these ancient writings into a book of scripture, called the Book of Mormon, which serves as "another witness" to the divinity of Christ, along with other canonized scriptures. The Church was organized in and commences from 6 April 1830 at Palmyra, in upper New York State, United States. | ||
Beliefs include among many others: a deep belief in the immortality of each individual and eternal continuity of the families, worship on a sabbath day, 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 His--Christ's ancient Church has been restored and setup in similar manner as in those ancient times--to include a living prophet, a quorum of Twelve Apostles, the building of "houses of the Lord", called temples, and that each soul is on a progressive journey which will, through consistent patterns in good choices and decision-making while here in mortality, surely steer one on a course that leads to Eternal life with The Father and His perfect Son, Jesus Christ. | |||
Joseph Smith, and the early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States faced severe opposition and subsequent persecution. In the midst of this affliction--still--Smith sent missionaries to various parts of the world including Canada, Scandinavia, Europe and of course the British Isles. It was within the same month as the commencement of Civil Registration of births, marriages and deaths, that the first missionaries landed on England's soil, first appearing in the Preston, ("Priest-town' as it was anciently called), Lancashire region with considerable success. As these missionaries began their journeying throughout the realm, thousands flocked to its ranks. About 14 years later, by the time the 1851 Religious Census was taken, there were just over 50,000 "sittings" in approximately 250 different congregations spread throughout the countries of England and Wales. Many of these awaited emigration to "Zion", which was located high in the Rocky Mountain's Great Basin (Utah Territory), in the Western United States. By the time of the 1860 U.S. Federal census, nearly 1 person in 4 that walked the valleys of Utah, spoke in the England/Welsh/Scottish baroque, due to the many converts who had arrived from Great Britain. | Joseph Smith, and the early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States faced severe opposition and subsequent persecution. In the midst of this affliction--still--Smith sent missionaries to various parts of the world including Canada, Scandinavia, Europe and of course the British Isles. It was within the same month as the commencement of Civil Registration of births, marriages and deaths, that the first missionaries landed on England's soil, first appearing in the Preston, ("Priest-town' as it was anciently called), Lancashire region with considerable success. As these missionaries began their journeying throughout the realm, thousands flocked to its ranks. About 14 years later, by the time the 1851 Religious Census was taken, there were just over 50,000 "sittings" in approximately 250 different congregations spread throughout the countries of England and Wales. Many of these awaited emigration to "Zion", which was located high in the Rocky Mountain's Great Basin (Utah Territory), in the Western United States. By the time of the 1860 U.S. Federal census, nearly 1 person in 4 that walked the valleys of Utah, spoke in the England/Welsh/Scottish baroque, due to the many converts who had arrived from Great Britain. | ||
The Church has passionate and strong doctrinal views on the Eternal nature and continuity of each individual and the family. Nothing demonstrates this more than its practices of dedicating resources towards 1) the building of temples throughout the world (currently over 200). In the temples, devoted members learn about the purpose of life here in mortality, God's interest and Influence in and the deeper purposes of one's eternal progression while here and beyond the grave, the eternal nature of each soul, and a belief that the "restoration" of God's (priesthood) authority, sacred ordinances may both seal on earth and bind in heaven--in the eternities couples to each other, and each family member to parents, such that all may partake of the heavenly gifts, God's richest blessings for each one of His children--and this includes those of their ancestors who may have never had the opportunity to receive--by proxy--the saving and exalting ordinances performed only in their temples. Therefore, the Church allocates numerous resources and man-power 2) to facilitate the operations of their temples in order that ordinances may be performed and of which allows not only themselves, but which grants their ancestors as well the opportunity to choose to accept (or reject) these ordinances done in their behalf. This is the reason why the Church with its genealogical 'arm' has built a vast library--and opened it and all of its resources--free to the world. Family history enthusiasts and genealogists worldwide. | |||
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Records for most of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint congregations (called Wards or Branches) are now located in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. Currently, these records may only be viewed in the Family History Library. Digitization for most of these records has not been completed and are not yet available online. Dates of living baptisms are mostly available for church members seeking to learn the date[s] of baptism of an England ancestor. These baptismal dates may be viewed in FamilySearch.org's Family Tree. However, there are (yet) many early convert baptisms which have not yet found, recorded and made conveniently accessible in the Family Tree at this time, because FamilySearch.org has not yet prioritized the data to these living (early or pre-1920) baptisms data (from an indexing project which commenced in 2004 and was completed about 2015) to be made available in any viable format online. | |||