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    Church Historian and Recorder (usually shortened to Church Historian) is a priesthood calling in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The...
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    Joseph Fielding Smith (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    apostle as the Church Historian and Recorder. He was a religious scholar and a prolific writer. Many of his works are used as references for church members....
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  • these callings were merged and now the Church Historian also acts as the Church Recorder. In 1972, the Church Historian's Office was renamed as the Historical...
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  • Marlin K. Jensen (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1989. He served as the official Church Historian and Recorder of the church from 2005...
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  • Reid L. Neilson (category Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement)
    was the Assistant Church Historian and Recorder for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2015 to 2019, and the managing director...
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    physician and medical researcher, National Academy of Sciences Steven E. Snow, (b. 1949), lawyer, LDS general authority, Church Historian and Recorder John...
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    Utah War (category Mormonism and violence)
    , Reminiscences and diary, [ca.1854–1917], fd. 1, 93–94.". Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel. Church Historian and Recorder, LDS Church. Retrieved 2021-01-09...
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  • power of Church Correlation with Clyde J. Williams, Church News, 23 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024. Episode 92: Church historian and recorder, Elder...
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  • Steven E. Snow (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2001. He served as the Church Historian and Recorder from 2012 until 2019...
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    among other offices, as the LDS Church Historian and Recorder 1874–1881 and also established the basis for the LDS Church's genealogical endeavors. Pratt...
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  • Smith Papers was the press's initial project. Marlin K. Jensen, Church Historian and Recorder at the time of the press' establishment, said the papers project...
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    Howard W. Hunter (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    became president of the church, Hunter succeeded him as Church Historian and Recorder. Hunter held this position until 1972, and was succeeded by Leonard...
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  • Dean L. Larsen (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1976 until his death. He was the eighteenth Church Historian and Recorder from 1985...
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    who had been the Church historian and recorder, and a member of the stake presidency in Missouri, to turn in his historical notes and writings. When he...
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    (LDS Church). Operated under the direction of the Church Historian and Recorder, its establishment was announced in February 2008 by the LDS Church. The...
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    Orson Pratt (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    as Church Historian and Recorder from 1874 until his death. He edited many church periodicals and helped divide editions of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine...
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    October 8, 2010, with a dedicatory prayer by Marlin K. Jensen, Church Historian and Recorder, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony which included Governor Gary Herbert...
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    Cokeville and whose father had served as one of Teichert's models for Christ). Perry reportedly visited with the Church Historian and Recorder, and subsequently...
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  • Elias Higbee (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    and an official historian and recorder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Born in Galloway Township, New Jersey, to Isaac Higbee and...
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  • Jericho Road, The Osmonds, The Lettermen, The Jets Church Historian and Recorder, Latter Day Saint Historians, A – M: Thomas G. Alexander, Edward H. Anderson...
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    Social Hall (Salt Lake City) (category Former properties of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    of the Utah State Historical Society and Church Historian and Recorder were searched for plans, photographs, and descriptions of the building. The public...
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    Willard Richards (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    to be the Church Historian and Recorder, a position he held until his death. In these two capacities, Richards maintained Smith's schedule and recorded...
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    Priesthood Restoration Site (category Properties of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    Twelve Apostles, on September 19, 2015. Steven E. Snow, the Church Historian and Recorder from 2012 until 2019, is credited with the completion of the...
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    Thomas Bullock (Mormon) (category Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement)
    1844 general conference of the church, an assistant to Church Historian and Recorder Willard Richards from 1842 to 1854, and was the clerk to the Council...
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    planned in 1960, as an 11-story home for the offices and libraries of the Church Historian and Recorder and the Genealogical Society of Utah. The need for such...
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    former students, and current students of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ...
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  • G. Homer Durham (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    his death. From 1982 to his death, Durham was the church's seventeenth Church Historian and Recorder. He was succeeded in that assignment by Dean L. Larson...
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    Kanesville Tabernacle (category History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    Kyle S. McKay, Church Historian and Recorder. The memorial includes a large garden with native landscaping, filled with sculptures and monuments. These...
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  • Richard E. Turley Jr. (category Official historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
    historian and genealogist. He previously served as both an Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)...
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    Hymns of the LDS Church Hymns in the LDS Church Mormon cinema Mormon studies Association for Mormon Letters Church Historian and Recorder FairMormon John...
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