In researching an ancestor you have pursued the local libraries or contacted those out of the area.You have visited courthouses and done online research. Maybe even visited the Family History
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Photographer Kimberly Butler reacts to learning that she is related to others in the room while filming a documentary about Butler’s life at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Family History Library in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.
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Photojournalist and celebrity photographer Kimberly Butler had a good idea of what was coming in the “big reveal,” but she was about to be flabbergasted.
It was a Tuesday morning, June 29, and Butler was sitting at a table in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, with Craig Foster, a research specialist at FamilySearch.
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A grave example of religious oppression is embedded in the history of American slavery.
Some slaveowners refused to allow Black slaves to attend church, denied them literacy to keep them from the Bible’s liberation narratives and even forbade them to pray.
That history gives profound moral authority to Black churches and leaders who are banding together to support religious freedom. At Notre Dame last week, one such leader stood and offered the Fairness for All Act as a solution to polarization. The act began as the Utah Compromise, which was created, backed and announced in part by the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide legal protections for LGBTQ people and religious freedom.
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