Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine

From The Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Author: Wright, Raymond S., III

Printed from 1910 to 1940 by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine provided instruction for local Church leaders and members on how to do genealogy and submit names of ancestors for temple ordinances. It often contained material for ward genealogical classes and reports about stake activities in genealogy and temple work. For serious genealogists it contained articles on sources and methodology. It also printed genealogies, biographies, and news about activities of the Genealogical Society of Utah and its library.

In 1940 the role of the Utah Genealogical Society in directing genealogical and temple activities among the Latter-day Saints was changed, and with it, the need for its magazine as a separate publication. Its last issue (October 1940) announced that the First Presidency had assigned responsibility for genealogical and temple activities to local priesthood leaders. From this time on, genealogy columns began to appear as regular features in the Instructor and the Improvement Era, and later in the Church News, which became the new forum for official Church statements about genealogy and temple activities. RAYMOND S. WRIGHT III

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