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Our ward had an activity on Saturday. I was asked to give a spiritual thought in relation to said activity – which was on family history. I thought I would just give a quick and short thought about why we have family history and sought inspiration. I listened to a conference talk given by Elder Nelson (now president) had given in 1994 which mentioned “ genealogy ” being replaced with “ family history ” which for me opened a whole new floodgate of questions. Curiosity got the better of me and I researched dates and information related specifically to downtown Salt Lake. By the time I had finished my research I had enough information for a talk though unless specifically assigned the family history topic it is not a talk that I ’ ll ever give from the pulpit. So my thought was: “ Genealogical Society of Utah started exactly 130 years and 3 days ago. So what is the differ...