Philadelphia Area LDS History

Thanks to Brenda in the Friends of the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple Facebook group for sharing an article just published in the local n...

Picture of the Founding Fathers in the waiting room of the Philadelphia Temple. Photograph courtesy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte...

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a long connection to the LDS Church. In 1850, the Society hosted a lecture by Thomas L. Kane d...

Thanks to Tod R. for sending a link to a great local resource: The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia It's a visually striking w...

Yes, the posts on this blog stopped in June/July, coinciding with my signing of a book contract with an academic press. The research and wr...

Just a quick note that I have been out of town and am trying to deal with a backlog of research and correspondence and the minutiae of negot...

Thomas L. Kane continues his description of the refugee camp... Southern Iowa, Tanner's New General Atlas, 1846. The party en...

Thomas L. Kane leaves Nauvoo to visit the refugee camps on the other side of the Mississippi River. He describes heart-rending scenes of s...

The next step in the research process is to see if anyone has done any work on your line, so you will need to do a survey of online famil...

Thomas L. Kane continues his tour of Nauvoo, Illinois, just vacated by the Mormons. He meets some of the mobbers and tours the empty temple...

In Philadelphia Genealogy: Getting Started , the assignment was to start with yourself. Make sure you have a place to store your informat...

This is the first of a series of short selections from Thomas L. Kane's discourse to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania about th...