The Mormon Church, which is also known as The Church of Latter-Day Saints, and also as simply LDS, has been collecting information about people from government and historical records for a long time. They do this on a world-wide basis, which means that they have very likely collected more information than the US government.
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Genealogy & Family History Research Tips
Welcome to Family Lore, where you can find tips and information to help you with your family history research.
With the passing of each generation, most of the knowledge and skills learned by the previous generation disappears.
You can prevent that from happening through proper research and the documentation of as much information as you can discover about previous generations.
A remarkable amount of information from the past exists and awaits your discovery.
Wherever your ancestors traveled, they left traces that can still be found through research.
Family history research is an adventure, as well as an interesting puzzle. Each piece of the puzzle that you discover leads to another piece, and another. Learn how to find the pieces of the puzzle left by your ancestors as well as how to preserve your family's history and heritage for future generations.
Family genealogy is about the study of the lives of our ancestors. Join us in our quest to discover the history and knowledge of those who came before us, and those whose lives led to our own.
Using LDS Family History Centers for Research
June 11th, 2009Identifying Albumen Cabinet Photographs
May 21st, 2009Although there were a few different technologies used to product cabinet photos, the albumen emulsion process was the most popular. Albumen prints are always mounted on stiff cardboard and were frequently displayed in cabinets or bookcases and thus were called cabinet photos or cabinet cards.
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How to Document Family Heirlooms
January 3rd, 2009Documenting your family heirlooms is a critically important part of recording your family history. If information about an heirloom is not recorded, the history associated with the object may be lost over time.
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Identifying Tintype Photographs
December 29th, 2008Tintype photographs were popular for a relatively short time period, so it is fairly easy to determine an approximate date if you have tintypes in your family history collection. Tintypes were introduced in 1856 and were popular until about 1867. Because tintypes are as a permanent photographic image, they may still be in good condition if they were stored properly over the years.
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Identifying Daguerreotype Photographs
December 29th, 2008Daguerreotype photographs were popular from the early 1840s until about 1860. Daguerreotypes therefore pre-date the Civil War.
Daguerreotypes are named after a Frenchman Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, who perfected the process that led to the first permanent photographic image that bears his name. Daguerre published a manual in 1839 that detailed the process.
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