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For most sessions of General Conference, not is the huge auditortum filled to overflowing, with crowds also in the Assembly, Hall and Barratt Hall listening by radio, but the only grounds 'ore thronged with:. an overflow audience who stand or sit outdoors to ,listen to the program over the systcm One , ,,t,, I hundred eleventh semi-annu- al - . loud-speak- .. er . ; , , cti.t'' i'....::-.......:..... " -- - Genealogical Society Photos Takes , T. For Maximum Of Efficiency ' -- - o- o' genealogy' 1F you are Interested and particularly if your ancestors are from the Southern States, yOu will be pleased at the great development In this field of research in the past few years1 Actually thousands of pecPple now living in the'West can trace their ancestry back through this sec ton of ourcountrn and while .1.1eretfore many records of vital genealogi cal Import were inaccessible to the public, this situation is not true at the present time- This change is 'I traceable first to - a greater - the -- nation in Interest n - t I throughout- research which, in turn, formation of many pa- triotio, organizations which have devoted a great deal of time in compil- has led to-t- he , -- , ble and tombstone records, copies of pld diaries, and other miscellaneous material of genealogical and historical worth. Arrangements have been - orthicrofittrt---This- - - of rtadenvith-ofilcial- s The state governments being utilized by the Genealogical copies of .fsimilar records in have provided ' funds for the Abet - clety of Utah in Increasing scope to their archives. the ter preservation of original records , bring to the people of the intermoun- past year approximate- During and to catalog the data so assembled tam region thousands of invaluable ly 75,000 feet,- - or,-- 15 miles, of film have been used by-tin order that it could be more quickly 'historical and genealogical documents Genealogical - One can photograph and de- - Society in the copying of ,records. available for yesearchers.-- operator velop as many as fifteen- hundred This does not Include the films which Then, tOP, the 'Historical- Records Project of the 'WPA has stimulat6d a to two thousand pages of material in pave been purchased outright from one method the this other of original day. By organizations, consisting good deal of interest, and has providrecord itself is protected from con- - church records, wills, etc., and mans ed the 'means not heretofore available, in making an inventory of the records stant use, and the photograph is as thousands of pages from the United valuable for research, purposes as the States census records , now in exiestence In various counties , A trip was recently made by some original document While the personnel of this project staff-o-f the Genealogihas not been-ma-de up of skilled re-- ' By special , permission during the members of the searchers, the government has been past year over 125,000 pages of materi- - cal Society of Utah to a number of .... careful in the selection of those placed al have been added to the files of the archives in the Southern States This at the head of the organization, both Genealogical Society of Utah from visit disclosed the fact that never and coun-'-: county records of the State of Tennes- - - the history of these states has so much nationally and In the states e Invaluable-servichas see alone." Such entries consist of Sir. attention been given to the preservasO that an the-ol- d s been rendered to our nation, and an perior Court Minutes, Circuit Court tion and careful cataloging of - intereSt in these old and priceless recminutes,' Chancery Court Minutes, as documents pertaining to the transac- and ords has been awakened locally well as minutes of the early records of tions carried on throughoutsthe past Pleas and Quarter Sessions, deed in the county and 'state governments nationally. In some states verbatimtranscrip- - - hOOk& will books, marriage bonds, In most .cases the records are in the tions have been made of the earliest state settlement', books, :surveyors': .custody of the Secretary of State. - county and state records, so that the - books, Inventories, of estates;- land This' is particularly true of the early, land grants and land lottery records. records, tax original books themselves need not be ' IContinued on Page Six). 'consulted In every instance? In' the books, minutes of early. churches, Bi- e 1 - he Research, Geneqogicat , Society at Utah - archives, and county records with the thought ' in mind of assisting their membership and other interested per , L.) -- BY L. GARRETT 211YERS A event of loss or destruction by fire duplicate entries are available. ' ' Many very ,valuable and priceless records are now being, preser ved by Ing data from private sources, public - Microfilmi Method Used --- Q 0-q0- - ---- -- I ,' , . , I ., - -- - - , - - s - - . ,' ''. . - r 1 ., |