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The BYU Family History Library website links to resources for patrons' research and offers virtual assistance. [7] In order to reach people remotely, the FHL offers webinars on a variety of topics related to genealogy. Upcoming webinars are announced on the BYU FHL's website. [10] The FHL also operates a YouTube channel with genealogy tutorials ...
Research institutes connected with BYU in the present or past include: BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy: The Center for Family History and Genealogy is a research center dedicated to pioneering innovative family history research and tools through faculty-student mentoring. The center employs approximately 40 students who work on ...
In 1997, the group became a formal part of Brigham Young University (BYU), which is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 2006, the group became a formal part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship , formerly known as the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient ...
The BYU Family History Library is part of the HBLL at BYU in Provo, Utah. The BYU FHL was one of the original planned FSCs and is the largest FHC outside of Salt Lake City. It was formerly known as the Utah Valley Regional Family History Center. It is now semi-independent of the LDS Church's FSC system.
The Generations Project is a reality television series produced by and shown on BYU Television that helps those who have questions about their family history investigate their own identities by embarking on a journey to uncover the lives and stories of their ancestors. During this journey each participant attempts to retrace their ancestors ...
In 2003 he was hired as a professor of family history at BYU. In 2011 and 2013 he directed BYU's study abroad programs to Vienna, Austria. His is the director of a research project called "German immigrants in American church records," [ 4 ] a project to extract genealogical data from German-American church records across America and publish ...
The Maxwell Institute was established in 2006 as an umbrella organization for several of BYU's academic initiatives, including: the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI), the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART), the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). [2]
The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers and other documents to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants to the United States and other countries. Such information may not be found in the port registers or naturalization ...