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Show -- LDITOR; TAWNY ARCHIBALD SATURDAY, THE DAILY HERALD (www.HarkTheHeraId.corf) 3 APRIL 1, 2XK) PUZZLE PIECES - i v ' ; jl r iff t ; . Paul Tripp Prophecies -false, but still a lot of fun ySjg,. One time I saved a National Enquirer magazine. It was an, annual edition that gave 44 prophecies for the coming year. A year later, I picked it up and spoiled my fun. I counted" only two prophecies that actu-- ' rf . N A allynoccurredrT A Nowadays, I'm told you can dial a number to hear prophecies, or cruise the Internet and find lots of scary stuff that's about to happen. In microfilm research, I editor who found an offered.his readers the same scares we get today. From the Jamaica Courant, March 1, 1738, prophets offered ten years' prophecies; 1738: War will be declared throughout the world (Well, there's always somebody mak-ing war, but everybody?) 1739: Constantinople will be destroyed (Right idea, wrong town. Actually, in 1739, it was India's Delhi sacked by Persia's Nadir Shah, March ' old-tim- -- ; a ..... '' A ::&'T'....s;-',:. resident and , genealogy buff, Kathy Macdonald, has taught her nine children about r e Lfamily history tnrougn tne use of numerous props, learning ; LzLIl ::' con-.- . founded (Confounded ;or not, he makes a great chocolate bar. Oh, you say there's a difference between Hershey and Heresy?) 1741: Jesus Christ will generally be acknowledged by all ; men (Mebby so, but did it stick?) 1742: A great personage will exist (Well, that's one you can't argue.) 1743: Africa will be sacked and burnt (How could they have that many matches?) 1744: A great earthquake (Sorry, no big quakes in 1744. A very big earthquake hap- pened just 6 months before the' publication, in Calcutta with 300.000 dead. Nothing again . until 1755.) 745: The whole world will" ' be terrified (I'm shakin'.) 1746 and 1747: They say, nothing (This one came true, don't you think?) 1748: Jesus Christ will come to judge the world (That's one I missed .....) The editor first provided fodder for the. believing: "A letter wrote from Paris (states): Here arrived two .venerable old men, who say they are endowed with the Spirit'of Truth. ... They go about the streets bare footed and bare headed, advertising the people that heaven is irritated against them and that if they don't change their manner of life, (Paris) will be destroyed in three months." The article says the Jesuits examined them. The two sters spoke 30 languages ... (including Chaldean), knew the secret thoughts of men and ate ' only bread and water. People better repent or they will "be reduced to the most enevitable misfortunes." Like Paul of old, 'They have broke with great ease the chains of the prison, in sight of everybody." So, there you have it. Like calls or today's Internet prediction sites, people in 1738 were fascinated with wandering prophets' messages. And, who checked out the results? Now, don't spoil the fun. 1 ' L. Tripp writes life stories, does genealogy research. Contact Tripp at ancestryfindcrs.com or email at paultripp("airswitch.net. 2000 Paul L lYipp. ; mmm K a m S'tt"? .JY"&'''n-- Family relives history through stories of the past By KAREN HOAG The Daily Herald HIGHLAND Kathy Macdonald likes to teach her children to love their ancestors. And she makes it palatable by using stories. "The key to teaching kids is telling stories," Kathy says. "Help them understand their family and who they are by putting them in the scope of t history." Kathy and husband, Taylor, of Highland, both come from polygamous families, so the stories are plentiful. "The ancestors who left a journal make a big impact on our lives," says the mother of nine and grandmother to nine (with three on the way). "We don't do nearly enough talking with our kids about family." A favorite story at the Macdonalds' home involves Kate Aldura Richardson in the 1860s, near Springville. Kate was an Indian baby who was seated on the body of her dead mother. The baby's dad was also dead. Indian braves were ridshooting around the baby ing arrows at her. Tou see, the baby's family had lots of horses, and the plan was if the Kate lived through the arrows, then she would own the horses. If she died, the braves would split up horses amongst them: the ' An Indian scout rode into the scene. Horrified, he told them, "Give me the baby and she'll never return." OREM Ancestry.com, part of the MyFamjly.com Inc. network of Internet sites, has announced the launch of a new online reference library. This library contains hundreds of articles from Ancestry magazine, Genealogical Computing, the Ancestry Daily News and popular family history columnists George G. Morgan, Dick Eastman, Kip Sperry, Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens and Drew Smith. The library is the one of the largest collections of family history instruction material on the Internet and can be browsed by category, author, date, column or article title. The new library's vast collection provides a powerful resource for both beginner 'and expert genealogists. Interactive features enable an article visitors to directly to friends and allow readers to give feedback to The Daily Herald ' L HELP CHILDREN ENJOY HISTORY ' stories of their ancestors . Keep a journal yourself Interview each child on his birthday: what's happening in his life, .best friends, favorite food, TV"' show, etc. Make a little book of kids' drawings or feelings of what happened at home or school that day, scriptures they've read or hymns they've sung Use a flip chart to learn a song about each president of the church Tell . , Kathy Macdonald . " ' That didn't satisfy the Indians; they answered, "No," and bartered with the scout until he agreed to give them seven blankets... The scout knew a woman who'd love a child and was a weaver, so she could replace his blankets. He took the baby to Mary Ann Darrow Richardson, in Springville, who nursed the baby back to health (and pulled an arrow out of her head). Mary Ann and husband Edmund already had two sons, but they adopted Kate. When the toddler grew bigger, Edmund whittled Noah's Ark animals for Kate. Next, "he whittled a doll with braids for her. Kate took the doll, looked Library launched by ancestry.com The Daily Herald tools and stories. mmm I toll-fre- e lhul LLt KEVIN " 20.) 1740: Heresy will be look back: Highland toll-fre- e Ancestry.com. Articles can be accessed in a "printer-friendly- " format that enables easy use for instructional or other purposes. More than 500 articles are currently available through the library and additional articles are added each business day. Readers will be able to access more than 3,000 articles by the end of the year. To bridge the gap between online and offline resources, the library contains a complete ' Highland it over and big tears rolled down her face. Mary Ann was very grateful to have Kate for a daughter. Kate eventually became a principal of a government school in Colorado; she retired in Ft, Duchesne. Edmund and Mary Ann Richardson are great, great grandparents to Taylor ' ' Macdonald. of comes The love temples from Taylor's great grandmother, Caroline Melinda, who was going to marry Byroa Macdonald in 1904. Living in the Mormon Colonies of Mexico, the couple wanted to travel via train to the Salt Lake Temple to marry. However, Byron injured his ' leg and gangrene set in. "Don't go on the train with that leg or else you'll die," the doctor told Byron. Caroline, had fail h if they went to the temp' e to marry, her fiance's leg will heal. So away they rode. It was not an easy trip; at every stop they have to scrape his leg and bandage it. But sure enough, Byron was healed upon enter-- , ing the temple. ; Later in life, Caroline, age 80, lived in Logan as a widow with her daughter. One day she attended two session's at the Logan Temple, went home to eat lunch and write in her journal. See GENEOLOGY, Aft The library is the one of the largest collections of family history instruction material on the Internet and can be browsed by category, author, (Jate, column or article title. list of all" books and CD ROMS currently being published by' Ancestry.com. The Ancestry Reference Library can be accessed online at " . www.ances-try.comlibraryarchive.as- Ancestry.com makes accessible through one simple search more than 550 million names contained in the most comprehensive and diverse collection of online genealogical databases available. 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