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Show IDS Research Genealogical Society to Note 55th Anniversary Sunday corded since 1938 on microfilm to save spsce. Nsme of the society wss changed in 1944. Joseph Fielding Smith, member mem-ber of the LDS council of twelve spostlee, is the present president ef the society. The 53 th snnlvaraary of the founding of the Oerteslogioal society of the Church of Jeeus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be observed Sunday according to A. F. Bennett society secretary. secre-tary. The society was founded Nov. IS, 1894, by a few members of the church who were vitally In-terested In-terested la getisaloirieal search End temple work, Mr. Bennett said, and was Incorporated Incorpor-ated Nov. 21 of that year. It wss named the Genealogical Society ot Utah at that time. Objective of the organisation waa to establish and maintain a genealogical library for the use of members and others, to circulate information regarding genealogical matters and to acquire ac-quire records of deceased persons per-sons for the purpose of doing temple work, according to early records- First president of the society waa Franklin D. Richards, Rich-ards, who wss also LDS church historian. The society's work was concentrated con-centrated on ths library at first but ia later years a research department de-partment a temple Index bureau and a church records archives were established, i Ths library maintained by the society begsn with about 100 volumes but has grown to mors than M 000 volumes and 1500 manuscripts, many of them re- $. |