Reader comments: Surprises fall as genealogists shake candidates' family trees
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CBU | 8:57 a.m. March 26, 2008
It was the goal of the late James L. Sorenson through his ground-breaking Sorenson Molecular Genealogy the kinship of mankind. We are all truly related as this article explains in perhaps a sensationalized way. We squabble as families do, but perhaps we can try to have greater love for all our cousins, famous or not. That is the real purpose of family history or genealogy.
Nebraska | 9:13 a.m. March 26, 2008
In the article, it says the New England Historical Genealogy Society (NEHGS) is the "oldest and largest nonprofit genealogy organization in the country". I would have thought the Deseret News knew better.
NEHGS may be older, but nothing in the world tops the LDS church's library headquartered right there in Salt Lake City. They have 2.4 Million rolls of microfilm, 310,000 books (compared to NEHGS's 200,000), help in 30 languages, more than 4000 satellite centers in 88 different countries, and they are nonprofit.
Maybe you could say NEHGS is the largest non-prophet genealogy organization.
NEHGS may be older, but nothing in the world tops the LDS church's library headquartered right there in Salt Lake City. They have 2.4 Million rolls of microfilm, 310,000 books (compared to NEHGS's 200,000), help in 30 languages, more than 4000 satellite centers in 88 different countries, and they are nonprofit.
Maybe you could say NEHGS is the largest non-prophet genealogy organization.
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Really now, is this news to learn that presidential candidates may have lots of distant cousins including celebrities?