The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in need of help indexing records. It’s partnering with the Smithsonian and others to digitize records from the Freedmen’s Bureau. Local churches, ...

Last week, a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million former slaves’ families and lives was announced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.?? The Utah-based ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Mormon church has a legacy of keeping some of the most detailed records of American history, particularly history surrounding former slaves in the United States. FamilySearch ...

MARIETTA, Ohio — On a recent afternoon, Dan and Carolyn Grammer stood amid the towering, dusty bookshelves in the attic of the Washington County Courthouse, eager to work despite the daunting task ...

The search for ancestors for some African-American families could soon be easier with access to records of the lives of millions of black Americans based in information gathered just after the Civil ...

CINCINNATI -- Earlier this month, FamilySearch International, the genealogical arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, turned over a newly indexed database of records of the Freedman’s ...

On the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” the final freeing of slaves after the Civil War, the LDS Church announced Friday a project to emancipate from obscurity key records of about 4 million former ...

PROVO — Ancestry.com has teamed up with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on a genealogical project that will bring generations of family names and genealogical research online within ...