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Immigrant Song Reprise
Relative of the Rings and the Chamber of Family Secrets
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Okay, boomer -- before you go off about how special you are, just remember that your name is only one in hundreds of thousands of these filled out during the American Baby Boom.
What is a birth record?
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So, you opened up an indexing project and, wait...is that some form of Elvish? Luckily, FamilySearch provides guides on paleography, the study of this.
What is handwriting?
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Countless General Authorities have urged saints to work on this line of ancestry. Great-aunts and sixth cousins twelve times removed probably don't count.
What is the direct line?
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John Bonham's son, Jason Bonham, still performs with the three living members of Led Zeppelin playing the same instrument as his father after his death. Way to continue a legacy, Jason!
What are the drums?
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Frodo Baggins and Peregrin "Pippin" Took have this relationship once removed on Frodo's side.
What are second cousins?
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These records provide names, death dates, and even maps of grave sites and names of other family members, and tombstones can confirm the information written.
What are cemetery records?
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If you want to search for records on FamilySearch, you are presented with three options: Search Historical Records, Find a Collection, and this option.
What is Search by Place?
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Elder Quentin L. Cook remarked, "[This prophet's] promise makes it clear that each of us has an obligation to the generations that precede us and the generations that follow us."
Who is Elijah?
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The lyrics "The hammer of the gods" and "Valhalla, I am coming" were particularly appropriate for this installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
What is Thor: Ragnarok?
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Arwen married Aragorn which would make Elrond this to Aragorn.
What is a father-in-law?
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The Mr. and Mrs. made sure to get both their names on one of these records before the Mr. had to fill out a draft record.
What is a marriage certificate/record?
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Need to check if your fifth great-grandmother is ready to be baptized and confirmed by proxy? Check this tab under "Temple" before scheduling an appointment.
What is Ordinances Ready?
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This member of the Quorum of the Twelve said this in 1987: "Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into [God’s] presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality."
Who is President Boyd K. Packer?
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If you do "come from the land of ice and snow" and "from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow," you most likely come from this part of Europe.
What is Scandinavia/the Nordic Countries?
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Harry married Ginny who is the sister of Ron who married Hermione. However you figure it, their children are these to each other.
What are first cousins?
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Some of these include a Coroner's Inquest, obituaries, the SSDI, and certificates, and they can come from hospitals, funeral homes, or cemeteries.
What are death records?
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If you click on the "Memories" tab, then click on "People" you can see which ancestors have sources attached to them such as obituaries, photographs, and various documents, including those written by the person about his or herself.
What are autobiographies/journals?
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Moses 6: 5 & 8 say that a book of this was kept that documented genealogies. It is important for us to continue keeping records.
What is remembrance?
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As alluded to in the song, the Vikings colonized parts of Eurasia and sent their ships in this direction to settle new lands later named Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland, soon called North America.
What is west?
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If Voldemort and Harry used the Relatives Around Me feature on the FamilySearch app, they will discover that they are distantly related to this trio of brothers who are thought to have created the Deathly Hallows.
Who are the Peverell brothers?
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Uh-oh. I better call Saul to make sure Grandma Sue just got called as a juror to the Zodiac Killer case and not as the defendant as recorded on this record. Still, I could look at her tax and property dispute records to help prove our relationship...
What is a court record?
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I gotta change YSA wards because every cute boy next to me is my cousin! I wish I never used this feature on the FamilySearch app that shows me which users are related to me!
What is Relatives Around Me?
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In a 2022 conference, Elder Gong testified that doing family history, performing temple ordinances, and keeping covenants will grant us "great power" and "great [this]."
What is protection?
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These are the first lyrics of "Immigrant Song."
What is "Aah-AAH-AAAAaaaaaaaaaaah-aaaAAAH!"
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Okay, hear me out; Legolas has to be distant relatives with this once sock-less character because they're both elves, right? Who went wrong and along what line?
Who is Dobby?