‘Add what you know,’ Elder Bragg tells those who wonder how to approach family history – Church News
For anyone who’s ever wondered what their role is in family history, Elder Mark A. Bragg has an answer: “Add what you know.” Elder Bragg is a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as an executive director of the Family History Department and FamilySearch International. He recently […]
How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life
I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in the living room, she positioned old magazines beneath the legs of a red convertible sofa, so as not to crease the rug it rested on. Then, with audible […]
Book Box | How to be alone
I wake up alone to leaden skies. The semester is over, the road trip is done, and here I am in Manali, feeling suddenly solitary in our family house. It’s been raining all night, and the garden is full of weeds and muddy and squelchy. Maybe taking a walk might cheer things up. I put […]