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Lds spiritual thoughts genealogy8/14/2023 ![]() ![]() That prayer was the first small step in opening the heavens for me with regard to family history research. At one point I said, “At this moment my computer screen doesn’t look like anything you are describing.” I thanked her, hung up, and fell to my knees and pled: “I don’t know how to do any of this. ![]() The first time I opened the FamilySearch website and, with a friend on the other end of the phone coaching me, tried to learn how to use it, it was a disaster. To say I was a beginner would be an understatement. I wasn’t sure what to do with that name, but I was ready to find out. The first name I saw was that of Kathryn Durst! And every time my husband and I would read the word durst, I had the same unusual feeling.Ī few days later, I happened to open an old notebook of my grandmother’s containing genealogical information in her own handwriting. At the time it seemed far more than 18 times. That word is used eighteen times in the book of Alma. As my husband and I read the Book of Mormon that morning, I noticed several mentions of the word durst.ĭurst. The word stirred something in me. I was ready to have the heavens open to help me find my ancestors. I was ready to do more than attempt to “organize” the family history records my grandmother had bequeathed to me. I had done a lot of that!īut on this December morning in 2012, I was ready to do more than feel guilty. The thing I had done the very most about my ancestors was to feel guilty. And I hadn’t even thought about doing so. ![]()
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