Why we do fh

1. Why We Do Family
History
Favorite Quotes from FDREL 261
September to December 2016

2. “Are all our sympathies and love for each other only
temporary—to be lost in death? No! Can family life
endure beyond this period of mortal probation? Yes!
God has revealed the eternal nature of celestial
marriage and the family as the source of our greatest
joy… Elder Russell M. Nelson

3. “We worship the great God who
created the universe. He is our
Father in heaven. We came
into being because of him; we
are his spirit children. We dwelt
with him in a premortal life in a
family relationship. We knew
him as intimately and as well as
we know our mortal fathers in
this sphere of existence”
- Bruce R. McConkie

4. “We feel an urgency for this great work
to be accomplished and wish to
encourage the Saints to accept their
responsibility of performing temple
ordinances, writing their personal and
family history, participating in the name
extraction program when called to do so,
completing their four-generation
research, and then continuing their
family research to ensure the
redemption of their kindred dead” (“We
Feel an Urgency,” Ensign, Aug.
1980, 2).
President Spencer W. Kimball

5. ‘Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord: “‘And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse’ [Malachi 4:5–6].

6. We are Abraham’s seed, and they were Abraham’s seed— through Isaac, through
Jacob, and through the house of Israel. It thus becomes our privilege, on the basis
of salvation for the dead, to search out our ancestors—to whom the same
blessings have been promised as have come to us—and to make these blessings
available to them through the vicarious ordinances of the house of the Lord” (A
New Witness for the Articles of Faith, 508–9). Bruce R. McConkie

7. “I tell you when the prophets and apostles go to preach to those who are shut up in
prison, and who have not received the gospel, thousands of them will there
embrace the gospel. . . . “There will be very few, if any, who will not accept the
gospel. President Wilford Woodruff

8. ‘All at once a vision opened to me, and I beheld a great congregation of people
gathered in the east end of the font room. One by one, as each name was baptized
for, one of these people climbed a stairway over the font to the west end of the room.
Not one soul was missing, but there was a person for every one of the thousand
names done that day.’
Melvin J. Ballard

9. Thomas S. Monson
“There are thousands of them, hundreds of
thousands and millions of them in the spirit
world who long to receive this gospel and
have been waiting hundreds of years for
their deliverance. They are waiting on you.
They are praying that the Lord will awaken
your hearts in their interest. They know
where their records are, and I testify to you
that the spirit and influence of your dead
will guide those who are interested in
finding those records. If there is anywhere
on the earth anything concerning them,
you will find it. That is my promise to you.