Do you have an ancestor who may have settled the city of Nauvoo, witnessed the organization of the Relief Society, heard the first cries announcing the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith or helped with the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple?
Or perhaps you have ancestral connections to Nauvoo during its formative Church history years and not even know it?
Either way, you could be among the 1.1 million Latter-day Saints soon to receive an email announcing a new FamilySearch campaign, My Nauvoo Ancestor Story, with email recipients identified by and linked to their Nauvoo ancestors.
By going to My Nauvoo Ancestor Story, users of the new online discovery experience can identify up to 20 ancestors who resided in the early Latter-day Saint settlement in western Illinois any time from 1838 to 1848, with information coming from five database sources providing rich insights into their lives there — even, at times, an eyewitness perspective.
Read more in the story “New FamilySearch campaign can connect Latter-day Saints to Nauvoo ancestors they didn’t even know they had.”
Way to go computer scientists! and any others who have a part in this undertaking. You are amazing!
The street that forms the north boundary of the Nauvoo Temple block was named after the family of my Nauvoo ancestors. I’m looking forward to the email!
This is fantastic. It was only after we moved to Nauvoo that I became interested in my 31 ancestors who lived in Nauvoo in the 1840’s. I found that I wanted to learn their conversion stories and know about them giving up everything to move to Nauvoo. I’m certainly glad they did.
Can you list those across the river in Iowa?