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Show SECTION SATURDAY, APRIL 8. & STYLE EDITOR LIFE I Elyssa Andrus 344-255- 3 2006 eandrusheraldextra.com LaRae Free Kerr It's All Relatives - .... 01 5fm. ': .".: ""h- -. , yyw',!!! , DOCUMENTATION SAVES PEDIGREES AND SOURCES a test: A reminiscence death in 1854, but a diary says it was April 1855. Which is more apt to be right? The birth date on a family group sheet comes from "family sources," nothing more. A different date on another sheet has as its source "birth certificate." Which is more apt to be correct? Several generations of a pedigree are attributed to a Web site address only. Some of those same generations, with differences, on a second pedigree'chart. came from the family Bible. Which are more Here's grandmother's believable? Jill KHir .MMI.WWMMIMMMIIW SM l . III t Ill l 1- - I r . .MMa I 111 I .. '1 1 , I '' , II SCHOLARS DEBATE History's most famous death remains hot topic today N. Ostling 1 Few experts go that far, though a ideology persists in "Jesus and Empire" by Richard Horsley of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. His Jesus is a fellow traveler with insurrectionists and inspires Horsley to assail U.S. foreign policy. Jews often favor political interpretations because they emphasize Rome's responsibility and downplay the New Testament's report that Jewish leaders and some in the populace wanted Jesus dead. 7. In a new treatment, "Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church and the Roman Superpower" (Oxford University Press), Christopher Bryan of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., sees politics at work but maintains that Jesus was ""post-colonia- l" THE ASSOCIATED PRESS hy was Jesus crucified? Asthe Apostle Paul explained, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to him- setf" and "made him to be sin who knew no sin" to impart the gift of righteousness to sinners (2 Corinthians W 5:19,21): Salvation aside, this was history's most famous death and some writers in these modern, politically drenched times use it as emblem of oppressive colonial occupatioa S.G.F. Brandon of Britain imagined Jesus to be a violent revolutionary, executed for threatening Rome's imperial power. - . See CRUCIFIXION, B2 El Greco's early painting 'Christ on the Cross.' Philadelphia Museum of Art Religion Notes Krishnas hold festival of Ram Navami make a $6 donation to the temple ing fund. It was thousands of years ago, according to legend, that the Hindu deity Lord Ramachandra walked the Earth, but his story is alive and well, preserved by a timeless epic poem and the annual celebration of Ram Navami. If you're curious about this particular item of world religious lore, then there's lots for you to learn at the Ram Navami festival which begins at 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Krishna Temple at 8628 S. State St. in Spanish Fork. The festivities will include a pageant, about the writing of the Ramayana the epic poem that chronicles Lord a pupRamachandra's wanderings pet show, ceremonial chanting and drumming, a fire ceremony and a chariot procession with llamas and cows. All events are free and open to the public. The usual vegetarian feast will also be available for those wishing to Unitarians welcome "equality ride" participants till1 build- The Soulforce Equality Ride, a y bus trip undertaken by a team of activists aiming to of gays, lesbians, Eromote acceptance and the transgendered, will stop over in Utah Valley next week. The bus riders, who will be at local college campuses Sunday through Tuesday, will be hosted Sunday night at a special fireside and pothick supper event being put on by the Utah Valley Unitarian Universalis! Fellowship. . The event begins at 4:30 p.m. with a special joint presentation from the Rey. Janet Riley of Springville Presbyterian Church and the Rev. John Lersh of Provo Community United Church of " Christ, to be followed by a forum with Soulforce participants and capped off two-mont- cross-countr- with the potluck supper. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Provo Community United Church of Christ building at 175 N. University Ave. in Provo. Those wishing to participate in the potluck dinner are asked to bring a food dish to share. Additional information is available by phone at university organizations. The gathering is free and open to the public. Women's Conference set for May 4 and 5 BYU 853-560- holds free Easter conference, April 15 BYU Brigham Young University will hold a four-hou- r Easter devotional April 15 in the auditorium of the Joseph Smith Building at the south end of campus, beginning at 9 ajn. The conference, titled Thlire and Teachings of Jesus Christ," win be addressed by university president Cecil O. Samuelsen and academic John S. Tanner, with other speakers participating from various nt 1 his will in St Clair County, Illinois. CRUCIFIXION Richard What is family history truth? And how does a family historian recognize it? The second step in the Research Cycle attempts both to define and to ensure the finding and perpetuation of family truth through documentation. To start with, family history discoveries entertain and delight and occasionally embarrass when researchers find new facts about their own families. But when the researchers veer from their own true pedigrees and onto someone else's, it is disaster. For example, I have an ancestor named Absalom Pennington. Unusual name. Easy to recognize. I followed his travels from North Carolina, through Tennessee to "Rise to the rinity Within You" will be the theme of BYlTs annual Women's Conference, to be held May 4 and 5. The topic will be addressed by more than 200 presenters at an estimated 90 sessions. '' Registration is now available online at womensconference.byu.edu, or The cost of atby phone at tending the full conference is $38 for participants who register before April 14 (one-da- y registration is $22 before April 14). After April 14, costs increase to $45 for the full conference and $25 for one-da- y registration. 422-892- Cody Cfarfe, Daily Herald Then I found an Absalom Pennington in St Helena's Parish, Louisi- ana. Did my ancestor take a detour into Louisiana? The Louisiana Absalom Pennington had parents and siblings. Mine didn't.. Wouldn't it be great if I could add all this new information to my pedigree? After much research, I discovered the Louisiana Absalom Pennington was 27 years younger than mine. He had different children than mine. Had I not curbed the excited desire to add unproven names to my pedigree, I would now be researching somebody else's ancesnot mine. That's no fun. tors Please pay major attention to this, caution: More information is available to more people now than has ever been true in the history of the world. And a higher percentage of it is wrong than can be imagined. ' Tons of information is made up! No documentation. No effort to be .true, only to be convincing. Recently, I was doing a Web site search on Perkins ancestors. There in pixels was a surname for Richard Perkins's wife, Mary. It was Utie. It sort of made sense since a son was named Ute. But there were no sources. So I hauled myself off to a repository in Maryland and proved, fairly quickly, that Mary Utie was married to someone else entirely and having children at the same time Richard Perkins's wife was having his children. Only took a few minutes to prove Utie could not be her last name. Yet that Web the site even after I still bears results of my research her name. Others will come along and accept Mary Utie as their' an- cestress. They'll be doing someone else's or nobody's genealogy. Documentation, the habit of writing down everything possible about each piece of information, is the 6nly way to ensure anything close to accuracy. Write down the author, the title and publication information. Also write down enough information about where the document resides, so that someone else could come behind you and find it. For example, one biography of Absalom Pennington Free would . be documented like this: Rose, Mae Biesinger. Absalom Pennington Free, (no additional information is found on the site, unfortunately) ' thefrees.comhistoriesabsalomp free.html. The second step in documen: tation is understanding which sources are more apt to be correct, an easy course of study. Those sources recorded closest to the . action by those most involved are more likely to be correct. The more distance in both time arid space, the See RELATIVES, B2 : |