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Show What's AVi Yourviy) Line? Jk Jame J. Holcombe , reads old Mexican record on microfilm. By DOUGLAS D. PALMER" A Happy And Productive Trip that when to England this she boarded a chartered jet flight in so be would stimulating past July that her trip research. terms of genealogical Mrs. Doris Clegg Gregson and her husband, Jomade the aeph, of the 33rd Ward, Bonneville Stake, AssociaMissions British of the members trip with tion, Inc, The Gregsons and many others on the ' flight were returning to their homeland. Mrs. Gregson was baptized a member of the Church in England in 1939. Her husband was bom to parents. They came to the United States in 1959 and lived in Provo for two years be-fore coming to Salt Lake City. Soon after the huge jetliner landed at the London International Airport, Mrs. Gregson and her hus-baheaded for beautiful Edinburgh, Scotland, to visit her sister. There they borrowed a car and during the 30 days of their trip they traveled around the magnificent countrysides in southern Scotland and northern England in search of genealogical data. , One of their stops was in Dean, a small village in Cumberland, a northern county of England. Prior to her emigration to the United States, Mrs. Gregson had discovered in the 1851 English Census that her great-gregrandmother, Elizabeth Swainson, had once lived in Dean. The Gregsons visited a vicar in Dean but were unable to find Elizabeths birth date. Disappointed but determined to continue their search, they traveled to the nearby village of Brigham. It was here that Mrs. Gregson found fee marriage date of her great - great - grandparents, Thomas and Jane Coul-thaSwainson, in June 1770. On the parish register beside Thomas signature was recorded the notation, "a blacksmith of Ullock. The Gregsons then set out for Ullock, less than 10 miles away. In the tiny village of cottages they were directed to a small farm. After the Utah couple explained the reason for their visit, the farmers wife took them to a 17th century blacksmith shop, which was still standing on the farm. It was a strong, stone structure and quite well maintained. Farm implements were stored in the 1660. building. Over the door was carved the year Mrs. Gregson was elated to find the smithy and to have found the church in Brigham where her ancestors were married. The vicar of the little church in Brigham told the Gregsons that the church is about 400 years old. The original heavy wooden beams of the blacksmith shop now support a new roof. The shop was already 100 years old when Thomas Swainson started working there sometime in the late 1770s. The writing on the pigsldn-boun- d parish register at Brigham was still very clear and legible. I could easily read my grandfathers signature, Mrs. Gregson said. She is anxious to contact anyone with the name of Swainson or Coulthard in that area of England. Her address is 1071 E. 6th South, Salt Lake He. woman realize Church-memb- BY er ARNOLD -- J. IRVINE nd -- FOR FAMILY HISTORY at Genealogy-Mexic- an MEXICO rd -v CITY Publishing the first family history compiled by a member of the Church in Mexico is the aim of James J. Holcombe, second counselor In the Roma Ward Bishopric, Mexico Stake. The history will be on his moth: ers family, the Isunzas. My mothers line is quite interesting. Ive corresponded with a priest in Spain who has sent me a lot of information, Mr. Holcomb said to an interview at the Genealogical Microfilm Library in Mexico City. "The Isunzas are a prominent Basque family in Spain. One of my ancestors was a protector and patron of Miguel Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, he said. Members of the family came to Mexico to the 1700s and attained prominence there. Ive visited over 100 families to Mexico City to gather information on genealogy. Ive seen letters written by Benito Juarez to members of the Isunza family. Juarez was a revolutionary leader and president of Mexico. Mr. Holcombe is a member of the executive board of the Microfilm Library which is staffed and financed by the Church. It is directed jointly by ttie Church and by the Mexican Academy of Genealogy and Heraldry. He has done much of his reasearch to toe library which has thousands of reds of microfilmed records. These are mainly records compiled by the Catholic Church since the conquest of Mexico Where toe records exist, . there are no better records than those kept by the Catholic Church, he noted. He said that many, of toe old church records were destroyed in the revolution of 1910. He also has done extensive research on some of his fathers English, German, Scotch, Spanish and Indian ancestries. His grandfather Holcombe came from England to Mexico as a mining engineer in the 1890s. This line has been traced back to the time of William the Conqueror. "Tracing toe Indian lines is very difficult because they had no sur Style names before the revolution of 1821, and the priests wow not so careful with the Indian records. Nevertheless, some have had considerable success to tracing their Indian genealogy, he said. Mr. Holcombe is a convert to toe Church who was bom and reared in Chihuahua City. He attended Juarez Academy, Colonla Dublan, because of its high scholastic reputation to the area and earned a scholarship at Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho. He edited toe Viking Scroll at Ricks before going on to Brigham Young University. He joined toe Church at the Y. in 1961. The following year, he graduated to journalism. He was called on a e mission to the Southeast Mexican Mission where he served as a counselor to two presidents. Since his mission he has married and is now a teacher of Spanish, history and literature at Lomas High School, an English lanuage school, in Mexico City. He has worked also at the Genealogical Society offices to Salt Lake City, and as a translator for the Church to Mexico City. full-tim- City. Th. Church EmcutWu br Kmt Lloyd O. Prke, V. (fella MarraM and Ellsworth E. Johnson: Published by Book-cra- ft Inc Salt Lake City, Utah. Weaver Family Publication Koodatt Mrs. John H. Dieterle of the Anniston (Alabama) Branch, Southern States Mission, is publishing a book entitled "Henderson Weaver and His Descendants" which will be available Dec. 1. A of Mrs. Dieterle, Henderson Weaver lived in Rutherford County North Carolina, and had 11 children. Most of his 300 living descendants live in North Carolina, Georgia, Colorado and California. Mrs. Dieterle was converted to the Church 10 years ago and since her baptism has been active In genealogical research. She is now in charge of the cemetery census program in the Southern States Mission. Copies of the new book may be obtained for $10 by writing to Mrs. Dieterle at Box 491, Jackson- - The Church Executive: Building the Kingdom Through Leadership Development, is a manual written by four California educators: Kent Lloyd, Kendall P. Price. V. Dallas Merrell and Ellsworth Johnson. Actually it is a report of a two-da- y seminar held by a selected group to California. The Brigham Young University California Cento' was toe sponsoring unit responsible for toe organization of toe conference which was aimed at stake to presidents improving their performance to their role as vflle, Ala., 36265. WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 14, c r i r ; i.'it r . o 1M7 . NEW BOOKS IN THE CHURCH The two-da- y conference, attended by Elder Howard W. Hunter, of the Council of toe Twelve was focused upon behavioral science perspectives for Church executives. The authors of toe booklet describe the experiences and explore implications of toe 1966 seminar on executive leadership. During toe first meeting of the seminar a battery of five evaluation Instruments were administered and finished by 16 stake presidents and turned to anonymously to be scored. These instruments, excluding the social background questionnaire, were administered to participants again at the completion of the seminar to determine what changes had taken place during the session. The final chapter of the manual raises critical questions and implications from the reported experience that have emerged to the minds of those readers interested to developing more effective Church executives. A number of hypothetical readers have been characterized to represent a variety of viewpoints. |