The Salt Lake Tribune WEATHER Sunday, May 23, 1999 THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE WEATHER REPORT Taketowny 72/41 - & = & : Logan ene dene Meeipo Wendover 85/58/pc ~ * Fronts at their noon position. Temperature bands are highsfor = Rain | Fluvies A Y. 60/43/pe | Salt Lake} pC Kearns/Wv ®* B2/56/pc Tooele @ ‘Today's North America Forecast. World Today City Hito W |= No Precip.| Snow Doon separa REET AGRON ° T-Storms| i 6: ge @Park City Flaming eoath 3/464 ®Heber City the . 7851 oe Vernal Provo/Orem Roosevelt 76/4 84/57/t T4/36is | Nephi | Te Ephraim 75/5 BO'BSIpC @ Richfield ae ceriReet NP BIS: 74/45/pc © 2 ¢ aoe Blanding st. George 84/51/9C @ Zion NP e 78/48/p¢ Late Powell | | | Honolulu s272ipc ty Good Pollen Index (eerie i | Wore ng Ki | Rome | San Juan Yesterday's NationalExtremes | ‘Somesun; | |Partly | |At-storm p.m. ‘sunny; may) likely Low Mod. High V. High Poe's UV Index umber indicate Partly sunny |tshower | |t-shower noon A pm Regional Cities » Park City | “e9/45/pc « 70/43/sh«. Vernal | Provo 83/52/r 751881 Price ; Richfield Richtield ¢, Price! 80/50/s beer 7e/a7/sh 78/ABIe ° Cedarcity 81/54/pe| CedarCity san Lake Powell} 76/45/t Park = ‘ Ee | 6:04 am 8:45 pm | Vernal] city HiLo Prep. Hike W Hille W Detrot Albany 6 7 Albuquerque enc City Indianapolis Jackson, MS Kansas Cay 81/52/pe 68/38/r River Recreation 5: Avalanche 364-158 Air Quality Highway Conditions 77838 68/36 73/46 gramps’ BY BOB MIMS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE My grandfather once regaled me with tales of our Welsh ancest- Mormons looking for their roots. sors settling America, later fight ing the Redcoats for indepen. dence and going down with the too Anticipating the site will be: Confederacyin bitter defiance of comeone of the most popular on the Internet, enough servers have those damned Yankees But gramps never said anything about outlaw Jesse James being kin. Moreon that later been addedto handle user loads as high 25 million hits in a sin gle day For everybody. it is a la or of love.” Christofferson said Cen It began with LDS Church spokesman Mike Otterson’s invi tation to try out the faith's new FamilySearch is that ilies areeternal andthat those re lationships through the enerations extend into the life after this one But for anyone. there is a real sense of place with finding who you came from, what your hert ttage is, good or bad he added LDS Churct ‘That's an urge or characteristic FaeKs Little Cot Among its collections church's Ancestral Fi lion-name family hist compiled largely t searchers, and Genealogical curiosity about myroots soon Bas 2 f ning page con r Ancestors m a closet a jordc B Hinck ey, assisted by Elder D eruses tory on new Website the Mims family ». | doublechecke Cannon Seeking to Prohibit Pirating eevee f t OfInformation From LI }S Web Site tc wood woud s on the education th worried about th Elder D. Todd Christofferson i w 1900s. A third database. the Pedigree Resource File, also w 2 able on-line at FamilySear ll means that people an access f niine d ' losing ownership of the information.” he said N site the Web The site resource sus to the among thi ¢ ration and le 86/70 90/65 82/72 pc 92/68 s 74/63 0.48 74/54 Orlando PalmSprings 7960 Tr 89/60 c 86/67 Philadelphia Phoenix -«BBET | BBESs 5 93/68.c 78/6 Pittsburgh Portland, ME 8 r th “ sheep. name and typed it in Casper Neil Mims. In a slot Zerelda ‘Zee’ Mims, Shadrack’s great-granddaughter. marked “spouse,” I added my grandmother, Eunice Sproul In a few seconds a list of 30 married Jesse Woodson James in Clay County, Mo., in 1845. The gunman credited, along with hits’ from the search popped up on scicen. I clicked my com brother Frank James, with pull- puter's mouse on onefrom the ing off 26 robberies in 10 states that left 16 dead was my distant church's Ancestral File and got the first of several surprises cousin Beforelong. I had printed out a pedigreethat went far beyond my pillar of Depression Era-Everett grampswas a junior Gramps —a leading dentist and Wash. — is long gone, so there's old family tree. It meandered sev eral more generations before end no asking him why he kept Jessie a secret ing with Thomas Mims, born 1637 in Middlesex, England. Census and land records fleshed out the Thanks to genealogy, not even grampa's silence can snuff the family’s claim to fame or infamy — English, not Welsh. to the dis. the James’ legend — cold-blooded killer or frontier Robin Hood — you embrace As for the rest of the family oral — depending on whichversion of picture of a 19-year-old Thomas appointment of my now-dimin ished Celtic pride — landing in America, his passage paid by a history. gramps appears to have been right’ As he indicated Mimses show upin the Continen Virginia landowner in exchange for sevenyears of service Thomas soon became a land owner in his own night His son | Army’s pensionrecords; great Thomas Jr followedhimas a Vir ginia farmer, siring David, the fa ther of the manat the stump of my tree, Drury Mims, born 1730 a Georgia Civil War regiment I looked at my watch, stunned Here came surprise No. 2. for that little more than an along withBritton, the next in my soon found the family’s black grandpa C.N. Mims enlisted and later musteredout to see a privatein hour had passed. A lifetime of questions had been answered. No saints | found, and onerather big sinner nd hanges Coble se Ju udiciary s and In panel ite Monday Washington. read $50 having to ated ward Y GREAT DEAL! BUY ONE AID GET THE2ND1/2 PRICE _ d to exempt ge ther family history gove other cords Christofferson said that F lySearch hown its potentia re the way peop! root f { this exemption, the y History Library, as . users andcharts transferred printed family histories. ment documents and history informa from all over the t the risk of the Coble also a, libraries perm i‘ reposit of family trees submitted by tighten the e ep. d I a This sourceincludes a 7655c BB/B3C 67I42 73/54 sh 71/52c 67/47 pe 75/495 a eir collecti christ 7660 1 9162 c 67/83 po cosmo 81/54 paving Mc rehiv ‘ riages fromthe 8053 ancestry, was his kid brother Shadrack. | took a detour and Internet nal bill made wid 6 cludes 320 mi births. Internet genealogy site. A lifelonglove of history and that transcends religious affili ation The LDS Church has long mair tained the world’s largest genea logical collection at the Family History Library. preserving the original records on many million rolls of microfilmstored in gran in 6857056 74/52 pe 65/461 91/63 6588 ; Omaha Innocent search on LDS Website finds outlawJesse James was kin @ Continued fromC-1 vaults 68/48 pc 6849s A Rotten Branch in the Family Tree 400 Million Names ite 73/56 pe s 69/50 + 64/44 c 87/65 s Montpelier 254 c 8450 t New Orleans 88/69 5 New York 78/60 72/56 r Norfolk 8760 84/68 pc OklahomaCty 88166 8257 pc nS. 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